For which international team did Paul Ramsey, a former professional footballer who played in a defensive midfield role, play during the 1986 FIFA World Cup which was held in Mexico?
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Paul Ramsey (footballer) Paul Christopher Ramsey (born 3 September 1962 in Derry, Northern Ireland) is a former professional footballer and Northern Ireland international who played in a defensive midfield role. He featured for Northern Ireland in the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
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1986 FIFA World Cup The 1986 FIFA World Cup, the 13th FIFA World Cup, was held in Mexico from 31 May to 29 June 1986. The tournament was the second to feature a 24-team format. With European nations not allowed to host after the previous World Cup in Spain, Colombia had been originally chosen to host the competition by FIFA but, largely due to economic reasons, was not able to do so and officially resigned in 1982. Mexico was selected as the new host in May 1983. This was the third FIFA World Cup tournament in succession that was hosted by a Hispanophonic country, after Spain in 1982, and Argentina in 1978.
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Adolfino Cañete Adolfino Cañete Azcurra (born 13 September 1956 in Asunción) is a retired professional Paraguayan footballer. He was part of the 1986 Paraguayan national team that played in the World Cup that year at Mexico. Cañete was credited with three assists during that World Cup.
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1986 Fajr International Tournament The 1986 Fajr International Cup (Persian: جام بین المللی دهه فجر‎ ‎ ) was a friendly football tournament that took place in Tehran, Iran. Opening game was played on February 13, 1986, two days after Iranian Revolution Day which is a national public holiday and the final was played on February 21, 1986.
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1986 FIFA World Cup Group F Group F of the 1986 FIFA World Cup was one of the groups of nations competing at the 1986 FIFA World Cup. The group's first round of matches began on June 2 and its last matches were played on June 11. Most matches were played at the Estadio Universitario and the Estadio Tecnológico in Monterrey. Morocco surprisingly topped the group, joined in the second round by England and Poland. Portugal were the other team in this group, making their first appearance since 1966.
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Paul Bravo Paul Bravo (born June 19, 1968 in Campbell, California) is a former American soccer midfielder and forward who played six seasons in Major League Soccer, two in the American Professional Soccer League and two in the USISL. He also earned four caps, scoring one goal, with the United States men's national soccer team. After his retirement from playing, Bravo served for several years as an assistant coach in both Major League Soccer and the NCAA and was most recently Technical Director for the Colorado Rapids.
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Alfredo Pérez (footballer) Alfredo Ricardo Pérez (10 April 1929 - 23 August 1994) is an Argentine football defender who played for Argentina in the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Club Atlético River Plate.
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Jorge Burruchaga Jorge Luis Burruchaga (] ; nicknamed "Burru", born 9 October 1962) is an Argentine association football coach and former professional football player, born in Gualeguay, Entre Ríos. He played both as an attacking midfielder and striker and is famous for scoring the winning goal in the final of the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
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Ghanim Oraibi Ghanim Oraibi Jassim Al-Roubai (born 16 August 1961) is an Iraqi football defender who played for Iraq in the 1986 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Al-Shabab.
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Habib Jafar Habib Jafar (Arabic: حبيب حعفر‎ ‎ ) (born July 1, 1966) is a former Iraqi footballer. He was featured on the national team many times and is remembered for competing in various Gulf Cup competitions. In the 1988 Gulf Cup, he was voted as the best player of the competition. He became a regular of the national team at a young age and was almost even called up for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, but he was thought to be to unexperienced by then-coach, Evaristo de Macedo.
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1986 in association football The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1986 throughout the world.
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Miguel Bossio Miguel Angel Bossio Bastianini (born February 10, 1960 in Montevideo) is a retired football midfielder from Uruguay, who obtained a total number of thirty international caps for his national team. Having made his international debut on October 27, 1983 against Brazil (2–0), he retired from international competition after the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
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Andrés Guardado José Andrés Guardado Hernández (] ; born 28 September 1986) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Betis and the Mexico national team. Mainly a midfielder, he can also operate as a left winger or left back.
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Washington Luiz de Paula Washington Luiz de Paula (January 23, 1953 – February 15, 2010) was a Brazilian footballer. Born in Bauru, he was a standout youth player who was compared to Pelé after his performance for the Brazilian national youth team in a 1971 tournament in Cannes. His professional career did not match this early success, but he played for the Brazil national Olympic team in 1972, and for a number of professional teams including Corinthians and Guarani.
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Pedro Romero (footballer) Pedro Romero (born 12 August 1937) is a Mexican football midfielder who played for Mexico in the 1962 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Deportivo Toluca.
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Juan Cruz Murillo Juan Alberto Cruz Murillo (born 27 February 1959) is a Honduran football midfielder who played for Honduras in the 1982 FIFA World Cup.
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Fernandinho (footballer) Fernando Luiz Roza (born 4 May 1985), or simply Fernandinho (] ; meaning "Little Fernando"), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the Brazil national team. He has also captained both sides on many occasions.
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Raúl Gorriti Raúl Enrique Gorriti Drago (10 October 1956 – 2 April 2015) was a professional football midfielder from Peru. He competed for the Peru national football team at the 1978 FIFA World Cup and obtained a total number of 11 caps for his native country, scoring one goal, in the years 1976 to 1979.
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Efraín Amézcua Efraín Amezcua (dates of birth and death unknowns) was a Mexican football midfielder who made two appearances for the Mexico national team at 1930 FIFA World Cup.
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China at the FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, sometimes called the Football World Cup or the Soccer World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of "Fédération Internationale de Football Association" (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946, due to World War II.
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Mario Velarde Mario Velarde Velázquez (29 March 1940 – 19 August 1997) was a Mexican football midfielder, who played for the Selección de fútbol de México (Mexico national team) between 1962 and 1972. He was part of the Mexico squad for the FIFA World Cup tournaments (1962) and 1970).
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Edwin Picon-Ackong Edwin Sydney Picon-Ackong (born November 4, 1940) is a retired Mauritian football referee. He is known for having refereed one match in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico between Iraq and Paraguay. This match caused controversy as Picon-Ackong blew the whistle for half time a split-second before Iraq striker Ahmed Radhi's header hit the back of the net, and the goal was ruled out. Picon-Ackong received a lot of criticism for blowing the whistle when Iraq had such a big goalscoring opportunity.