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Overview of the events of 1959 in association football
The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1959 throughout the world.
Events
Winners club national championship
International tournaments
Shared by
England and
Northern Ireland
Births
- January 23 —
Eustorgio Sánchez, Venezuelan football goalkeeper
- February 7 —
Sammy Lee (footballer), English international footballer and manager
- March 4 —
Romeo Zondervan, Dutch international footballer
- March 20 —
Roland Sikinger, American professional soccer player
[1]
- March 28 —
Paolo Agabitini, Italian retired footballer
[2]
- May 20 —
Juan Carlos Letelier, Chilean international footballer
- May 26 —
Róger Flores, Costa Rican international footballer
- July 25 —
Fyodor Cherenkov; Soviet and Russian international footballer and manager (died 2014)
- July 31 —
Wilmar Cabrera, Uruguayan international footballer
- September 4 —
Fernando Alvez, Uruguayan international footballer
- November 8 —
Selçuk Yula, Turkish international
- November 11 —
Mauricio Peña, Mexican footballer (died 2010)
- November 14 —
José Figueroa, Honduran international footballer
- November 17 —
Thomas Allofs, German international footballer
- November 22 —
Marek Ostrowski, Polish international footballer (died 2017)
- November 28 —
Pedro Acosta, Venezuelan international footballer
- December 11 —
Thandwa Moreki, Botswana footballer
- December 19 —
Edward Metgod, Dutch football goalkeeper and manager
Deaths
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May
July
November
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