Copa America 1979 / squad

This article contains the squads of the 10 national teams at the 1979 Copa América . The games with statistical details are included in the article Copa América 1979 / Games .

Group A

Chile

position	Surname	society	Date of birth
goalkeeper	Mario Osbén	Unión Española	July 14, 1955	9	0	0
goalkeeper	Óscar Wirth	CSD Colo-Colo	5th November 1955	0	0	0
Defense	Enzo Escobar	Unión Española	November 10, 1951	9	0	0
Defense	Elias Figueroa	CD Palestino	October 25, 1946	4th	0	0
Defense	Mario Galindo	CSD Colo-Colo	August 10, 1951	7th	0	0
Defense	Raúl Isaac González	CD Palestino	1956	2	0	0
Defense	Alberto Quintano	CF Universidad de Chile	April 26, 1946	2	0	0
Defense	René Valenzuela	CD O'Higgins	April 20, 1955	9	0	0
midfield	Eduardo Bonvallet	CD Universidad Católica	January 13, 1955	6th	0	1
midfield	Rodolfo Dubó	Club Atlético Talleres	September 11, 1953	4th	0	0
midfield	Miguel Ángel Neira	CD O'Higgins	October 9, 1952	5	0	0
midfield	Jorge Peredo	Unión Española	17th February 1953	5	4th	0
midfield	Waldo Quiroz	CD O'Higgins	September 10, 1949	2	0	0
midfield	Carlos Rivas	CSD Colo-Colo	May 24, 1953	9	3	0
midfield	Manuel Rojas	CD Palestino	June 13, 1954	7th	0	0
midfield	Mario Soto	CD Cobreloa	July 10, 1950	6th	2	0
Storm	Carlos Caszely	CSD Colo-Colo	5th July 1950	7th	3	0
Storm	Víctor Estay	Unión Española	February 24, 1951	4th	0	0
Storm	Óscar Fabbiani	CD Palestino	17th December 1950	3	0	0
Storm	Patricio Yáñez	CD San ​​Luis de Quillota	January 20, 1961	5	1	0
Storm	Leonardo Véliz	CSD Colo-Colo	September 3, 1945	6th	1	0

Coach: Luis Santibáñez 

Colombia

position	Surname	society	Date of birth
goalkeeper	James Mina	Independiente Santa Fe	17th July 1954	0	0	0
goalkeeper	Heberth Ríos	Once Caldas	September 28, 1956	0	0	0
goalkeeper	Pedro Zape	Deportivo Cali	June 3, 1949	4th	0	0
Defense	Oscar Bolaño	Atlético Junior	May 14, 1951	4th	0	0
Defense	Fernando Castro	Deportivo Cali	February 11, 1949	4th	0	0
Defense	Miguel Escobar Montalvo	Deportivo Cali	April 18, 1945	4th	0	0
Defense	Miguel Augusto Prince	Atlético Bucaramanga	July 30, 1957	0	0	0
Defense	Luis Eduardo Reyes	America de Cali	January 27, 1954	4th	0	0
midfield	Gabriel Chaparro	America de Cali	2nd July 1954	4th	1	0
midfield	Hernán Darío Herrera	Atlético Nacional	October 28, 1957	1	0	0
midfield	Luis Fernando López	Independiente Santa Fe		0	0	0
midfield	Víctor Lugo Ortiz	America de Cali	April 15, 1954	0	0	0
midfield	Alvaro Munoz Castro	America de Cali		2	0	0
midfield	Rafael Otero Cordoba	Deportivo Cali	December 14, 1954	2	0	0
midfield	César Valverde	Deportivo Cali	August 23, 1948	4th	1	0
Storm	Rafael Agudelo	Deportivo Cali	May 17, 1954	2	0	0
Storm	Arnoldo Iguarán	Cúcuta Deportivo	January 18, 1957	4th	1	0
Storm	José Ernesto Díaz	Atlético Junior	September 13, 1952	4th	1	0
Storm	Jaime Morón	Millonarios FC	November 16, 1950	2	1	0
Storm	Willington Ortiz	Millonarios FC	March 26, 1952	4th	0	0
Storm	Alex Valderrama	Unión Magdalena	October 1, 1960	1	0	0
Storm	Eduardo Emilio Vilarete	Atlético Nacional	June 20, 1953	0	0	0

Coach: Blagoje Vidinić

Venezuela

position	Surname	society	Date of birth
goalkeeper	Andrés Arizaleta	Zamora FC	December 23, 1950	0	0	0
goalkeeper	César Semidey	Deportivo Táchira FC	October 3, 1954	0	0	0
goalkeeper	Vicente Vega	Portuguesa FC	February 21, 1955	4th	0	0
Defense	Pedro Javier Acosta	Deportivo Galicia	November 28, 1959	3	0	0
Defense	Ordan Aguirre	Deportivo Lara	February 15, 1955	1	0	0
Defense	Emilio Campos	Universidad de Los Andes FC	August 22, 1954	4th	0	0
Defense	Johnny Castellanos	Zamora FC	December 13, 1959	1	0	0
Defense	Pedro Castro	Deportivo Galicia	May 26, 1950	4th	0	0
Defense	José Ramón Contreras	Deportivo Táchira FC		2	0	0
Defense	Cheche Vidal	Deportivo Italia	May 29, 1959	3	0	0
midfield	Bernardo Añor	bingo	October 7, 1959	1	0	0
midfield	Plinio Araque	Estudiantes de Mérida	November 30, 1954	0	0	0
midfield	Rafael Cadenas	Universidad de Los Andes FC	September 8, 1958	1	0	0
midfield	Luis Mendoza Benedetto	Deportivo Italia	June 21, 1945	4th	0	0
midfield	Richard Páez	Deportivo Táchira FC	December 31, 1952	4th	0	1
midfield	Asdrúbal Sánchez	Universidad de Los Andes FC	April 1, 1958	4th	0	0
Storm	Rodolfo Carvajal	Universidad de Los Andes FC	February 8, 1952	3	1	0
Storm	Angel de Jesús Castillo	Valencia Fútbol Club	April 18, 1957	3	0	0
Storm	Pedro Febles	Deportivo Italia	April 18, 1958	3	0	0
Storm	Julio César Hernández	Estudiantes de Mérida	October 6, 1951	2	0	0
Storm	Alexis Peña	Universidad de Los Andes FC	July 1, 1956	3	0	0
Storm	Rafel Santana Fontes	Deportivo Portugués	December 1, 1944	2	0	0

Coach: Walter Róque 

Group B

Argentina

position	Surname	society	Date of birth
goalkeeper	Ricardo Jose Ferrero	Rosario Central	April 5th 1955	0	0	0
goalkeeper	Julio César Falcioni	Velez Sarsfield	July 20, 1956	0	0	0
goalkeeper	Enrique Vidallé	Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata	March 7, 1951	4th	0	0
Defense	Miguel Ángel Bordón	Boca Juniors	October 27, 1952	4th	0	0
Defense	Juan Carlos Bujedo	CA Velez Sarsfield	March 6, 1956	0	0	0
Defense	Pedro Larraquy	CA Velez Sarsfield	June 13, 1953	3	0	0
Defense	Victorio Ocaño	Club Atlético Talleres	June 9, 1954	1	0	0
Defense	Daniel Passarella	River Plate	May 25, 1953	4th	2	0
Defense	Eduardo Saporiti	River Plate	December 29, 1954	2	0	0
Defense	José van Tuyne	Rosario Central	December 13, 1954	4th	0	0
midfield	Juan Antonio Barbas	Racing Club	23rd August 1959	2	0	0
midfield	Ricardo Bochini	CA Independiente	January 25, 1954	1	0	0
midfield	José Luis Gaitán	Rosario Central	September 7, 1957	2	0	0
midfield	Américo Gallego	Newell's Old Boys	April 25, 1955	1	0	1
midfield	Jorge Gáspari	Quilmes AC	3rd November 1958	4th	1	0
midfield	Carlos Ángel López	Racing Club	17th July 1952	2	1	0
midfield	Diego Maradona	Argentinos Juniors	October 30, 1960	2	1	0
midfield	José Daniel Valencia	Club Atlético Talleres	3rd October 1955	1	0	0
Storm	José Castro	CA Velez Sarsfield	October 15, 1955	3	0	0
Storm	Hugo Coscia	San Lorenzo de Almagro	October 12, 1952	4th	1	0
Storm	Roberto Osvaldo Díaz	Racing Club	March 3, 1953	4th	1	0
Storm	Sergio Fortunato	Estudiantes de La Plata	October 23, 1956	3	0	0

Coach: César Luis Menotti 

Bolivia

position	Surname	society	Date of birth
goalkeeper	Hebert Hoyos	Oriente Petrolero	April 29, 1956	1	0	0
goalkeeper	Carlos Conrado Jiménez	Club Bolívar	February 10, 1948	3	0	0
Defense	Rogelio dolphin	Club Always Ready	4th September 1953	1	0	0
Defense	Erwin Espinosa	Oriente Petrolero	July 27, 1954	4th	0	0
Defense	Windsor del Llano	Club The Strongest	17th August 1949	4th	0	0
Defense	Eduardo Angulo Torme	Club The Strongest	March 2, 1953	3	0	0
Defense	Edgar Vaca	Club blooming	May 2, 1956	4th	0	0
Defense	Ramiro Vargas	Club Bolívar	October 22, 1958	3	0	0
midfield	Carlos Aragonés	Club Bolívar	February 16, 1956	4th	2	0
midfield	Pablo Baldivieso	Deportivo Municipal de La Paz	June 30, 1949	0	0	0
midfield	Carlos Fernando Borja	Club Bolívar	December 25, 1956	4th	0	0
midfield	Aldo Fierro	Club Bolívar	June 19, 1954	1	0	0
midfield	Luis González Roca	Oriente Petrolero	January 30, 1958	1	0	0
midfield	David Paniagua	Club The Strongest	April 30, 1959	1	0	0
midfield	Erwin Romero	Oriente Petrolero	July 27, 1957	4th	0	0
Storm	Miguel Aguilar Eguez	Club The Strongest	September 29, 1953	4th	0	0
Storm	Ovidio Messa	Club The Strongest	December 12, 1952	2	0	0
Storm	Jesús Reynaldo	Club Bolívar	May 22, 1954	4th	2	0

Coach: Ramiro Blacut 

Brazil

position	Surname	society	Date of birth
goalkeeper	Émerson Leão	CR Vasco da Gama	July 11, 1949	6th	0	0
goalkeeper	Carlos Roberto Gallo	AA Ponte Preta	March 4th 1956	0	0	0
goalkeeper	João Leite	Atlético Mineiro	October 13, 1955	0	0	0
Defense	Amaral	Corinthians São Paulo	December 25, 1954	6th	0	0
Defense	Marco Antônio	CR Vasco da Gama	February 6, 1951	0	0	0
Defense	Edinho	Fluminense Rio de Janeiro	5th June 1955	5	0	0
Defense	Edson	Guarani FC	September 9, 1956	1	0	0
Defense	Junior	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro	June 29, 1954	0	0	0
Defense	Nelinho	Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte	July 26, 1950	0	0	0
Defense	Oscar	AA Ponte Preta	June 20, 1954	1	0	0
Defense	Pedrinho	Palmeiras São Paulo	October 22, 1957	3	0	0
Defense	Antônio Rondinelli	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro	April 26, 1954	0	0	0
Defense	Toninho	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro	June 7, 1948	5	0	0
midfield	Adílio	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro	May 15, 1956	0	0	0
midfield	Batista	Internacional Porto Alegre	March 8, 1955	4th	0	0
midfield	Carpegiani	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro	February 7, 1949	4th	0	0
midfield	Toninho Cerezo	Atlético Mineiro	April 21, 1955	0	0	0
midfield	Chicão	Sao Paulo FC	January 30, 1949	1	0	0
midfield	Falcão	Internacional Porto Alegre	October 16, 1953	3	1	0
midfield	Jair	Internacional Porto Alegre	June 11, 1953	1	0	0
midfield	Pintinho	CR Vasco da Gama	June 25, 1954	1	0	0
midfield	Pita	FC Santos	4th August 1958	0	0	0
midfield	Renato	Sao Paulo FC	February 21, 1957	1	0	0
midfield	Sócrates	Corinthians São Paulo	19th February 1954	4th	3	0
midfield	Zeno	Guarani FC	March 31, 1954	3	0	0
midfield	Zico	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro	March 3, 1953	3	2	1
Storm	Éder Aleixo	Gremio Porto Alegre	May 25, 1957	0	0	0
Storm	Nílton Batata	FC Santos	5th November 1954	1	0	0
Storm	Roberto Dinamite	CR Vasco da Gama	April 13, 1954	1	1	0
Storm	João Paulo	FC Santos	June 15, 1957	0	0	0
Storm	Juary Filho	FC Santos	June 16, 1959	0	0	0
Storm	Palhinha	Corinthians São Paulo	June 11, 1950	0	0	0
Storm	Serginho Chulapa	Sao Paulo FC	December 23, 1953	0	0	0
Storm	Tarciso	Gremio Porto Alegre	September 15, 1954	1	1	0
Storm	Tita	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro	April 1, 1958	4th	2	0
Storm	Zé Sérgio	Sao Paulo FC	March 8, 1957	0	0	0
Storm	Zezé	Fluminense Rio de Janeiro	June 30, 1957	1	0	0

Coach: Cláudio Coutinho 

Group C

Ecuador

position	Surname	society	Date of birth
goalkeeper	Carlos Omar Delgado	CD El Nacional	February 7, 1950	0	0	0
goalkeeper	Milton Vicente Rodríguez	Rangers de Talca	July 9, 1954	4th	0	0
Defense	Luis Escalante	CD El Nacional	January 19, 1945	1	0	0
Defense	Ecuador Figueroa	CD El Nacional	March 18, 1953	1	0	0
Defense	Fausto Klinger	Barcelona Sporting Club	April 15, 1953	4th	1	0
Defense	José Francisco Paes	America de Quito	December 29, 1954	4th	0	0
Defense	Miguel Perez	CD El Nacional	March 8, 1945	3	0	0
Defense	Flavio Perlaza	CD El Nacional	October 7, 1951	4th	0	0
midfield	Carlos Torres Garcés	Club Sport Emelec	August 15, 1951	4th	0	1
midfield	Luis Augusto Granda	CD El Nacional	2nd July 1955	4th	0	1
midfield	Carlos René Ron	CD El Nacional	December 16, 1953	4th	0	1
midfield	José Villafuerte	CD El Nacional	November 27, 1956	2	0	0
Storm	Jorge Luis Alarcón	LDU Quito	February 8, 1956	4th	1	0
Storm	Hugo Barrera			0	0	0
Storm	Juan Madruñero	Barcelona Sporting Club	April 26, 1954	2	0	0
Storm	Luis Cristóbal Mantilla	Universidad Católica del Ecuador	November 28, 1949	3	0	0
Storm	Roque Parraga	America de Quito	November 18, 1952	0	0	0
Storm	Jorge Vinicio Ron	CD El Nacional	February 26, 1954	4th	0	0
Storm	Mario Tenorio	Deportivo Cuenca	August 21, 1957	4th	1	0

Coach: Héctor Morales 

Paraguay

position	Surname	society	Date of birth
goalkeeper	Alcides Báez	Club Libertad	January 17, 1947	1	0	0
goalkeeper	Roberto Fernández	Club Cerro Porteño	July 9, 1954	8th	0	0
Defense	Alejandrino Arce	Club Nacional	August 11, 1955	1	0	0
Defense	Cristín Cibils	CA Tembetary	March 13, 1956	8th	0	0
Defense	Juan Carlos Espínola	Club Libertad	July 12, 1953	5	0	0
Defense	Gerónimo Ovelar	Club Cerro Porteño		2	0	1
Defense	Roberto Paredes	Club Olimpia	2nd December 1956	5	0	0
Defense	Juan Ramón Sandoval	River Plate Asunción		1	0	0
Defense	Alicio Solalinde	Club Olimpia	February 1, 1952	2	1	0
Defense	Flaminio Sosa	Club Olimpia	January 24, 1946	5	0	0
Defense	Juan Torales	Sportivo Luqueño	March 9, 1956	9	0	0
Defense	Juan Manuel Villalba	Club Libertad		1	0	0
midfield	Osvaldo Aquino	Club Olimpia	January 28, 1952	2	0	0
midfield	Arecio Colman	Club Libertad	June 10, 1951	1	0	0
midfield	Adalberto Escobar	Club Libertad	April 23, 1949	1	0	0
midfield	Aldo Florentin	Club Cerro Porteño	November 10, 1957	9	0	0
midfield	Carlos Kiese	Club Olimpia	June 1, 1957	5	0	0
midfield	Juvencio Osorio	Club Cerro Porteño	June 1, 1950	2	1	0
midfield	Mariano Pesoa	Club Cerro Porteño	April 30, 1952	2	0	0
midfield	Julio César Romero	Sportivo Luqueño	August 28, 1960	7th	3	0
midfield	Hugo Talavera	Club Olimpia	October 31, 1949	5	2	0
midfield	Luis Torres	Club Olimpia	November 7, 1952	5	0	0
midfield	Tito Vera	Club Libertad		1	0	0
Storm	Isabelino Acosta	Club Sol de America	2nd December 1956	2	0	0
Storm	Roberto Cabañas	Club Cerro Porteño	April 11, 1961	1	0	0
Storm	Pedro Nélson Fleitas	Club Cerro Porteño	July 11, 1953	1	0	0
Storm	Evaristo Isasi	Club Olimpia	October 26, 1955	6th	0	0
Storm	Arsenio Meza	River Plate Asunción	January 22, 1953	1	0	0
Storm	Eugenio Morel	Club Libertad	February 2, 1950	7th	4th	0
Storm	Milcíades Morel	Club Libertad	September 9, 1953	6th	2	0
Storm	Amado Pérez	Club Sol de America	June 24, 1959	1	0	0
Storm	Enrique Villalba	Club Olimpia	2nd January 1955	1	0	0

Coach: Ranulfo Miranda 

Uruguay

position	Surname	society	Date of birth
goalkeeper	Freddy Clavijo	Defensor Sporting Club	May 3, 1955	0	0	0
goalkeeper	Rodolfo Rodríguez	Nacional Montevideo	January 20, 1956	4th	0	0
Defense	Domingo Rufino Cáceres	Peñarol Montevideo	7th September 1959	2	0	0
Defense	Hugo de León	Nacional Montevideo	February 27, 1958	4th	0	0
Defense	Víctor Diogo	Peñarol Montevideo	April 9, 1958	2	0	0
Defense	Washington González	Defensor Sporting Club	December 6, 1955	2	0	0
Defense	Nelson Marcenaro	Peñarol Montevideo	4th September 1952	2	0	0
Defense	José Moreira	Nacional Montevideo	September 30, 1958	2	0	0
Defense	José Luis Russo	Defensor Sporting Club	July 14, 1958	0	0	0
Defense	Mario Zoryez	Peñarol Montevideo	September 9, 1950	2	0	0
midfield	Nelson Agresta	Nacional Montevideo	2nd August 1955	4th	0	0
midfield	Gary Castillo	South America		1	0	1
midfield	Eduardo De la Peña	Nacional Montevideo	June 7, 1955	2	0	0
midfield	Ildo Maneiro	Peñarol Montevideo	4th August 1947	2	0	1
midfield	Rubén Paz	Peñarol Montevideo	August 8, 1959	3	0	1
midfield	Ember Quintas	South America		0	0	0
midfield	Mario Saralegui	Peñarol Montevideo	April 24, 1959	2	0	0
midfield	Lorenzo Unanue	Peñarol Montevideo	March 22, 1953	3	0	0
midfield	Ernesto Vargas	Peñarol Montevideo	May 1, 1961	1	0	0
Storm	Daniel Alonso	Liverpool Montevideo	April 18, 1956	3	0	0
Storm	Alberto Bica	Nacional Montevideo	February 11, 1958	3	1	0
Storm	Denís Milar	Nacional Montevideo	20th August 1952	2	1	0
Storm	Washington Olivera	Peñarol Montevideo	June 25, 1954	0	0	0
Storm	Venancio Ramos	Peñarol Montevideo	June 20, 1959	0	0	0
Storm	Waldemar Victorino	Nacional Montevideo	May 22, 1952	3	2	0

Coach: Roque Máspoli 

Semifinals

Peru

position	Surname	society	Date of birth
goalkeeper	Eusebio Acasuzo	Universitario de Deportes	April 8, 1952	2	0	0
Defense	Hector Chumpitaz	Sporting Cristal	April 12, 1944	2	0	0
Defense	Rubén Toribio Díaz	Sporting Cristal	April 17, 1952	2	0	0
Defense	Jaime Duarte	Alianza Lima	February 27, 1955	1	0	0
Defense	José Navarro Aramburu	Sporting Cristal	September 24, 1948	1	0	0
midfield	César Cueto	Atlético Nacional	June 6, 1952	2	0	0
midfield	Raúl Gorriti	Deportivo Municipal	October 10, 1956	1	0	0
midfield	Germán Carlos Leguía	Universitario de Deportes	2nd January 1954	2	0	0
midfield	Jorge Olaechea	Alianza Lima	August 27, 1956	2	0	0
midfield	José Velásquez	Independiente Medellin	June 4th 1952	2	0	0
Storm	Guillermo La Rosa	Alianza Lima	June 6, 1952	2	0	0
Storm	Ernesto Labarthe	Sport boys	June 2, 1956	1	0	0
Storm	Roberto Mosquera	Sporting Cristal	August 21, 1956	2	1	0
Storm	Percy Rojas	Sporting Cristal	September 16, 1949	1	0	1
Storm	Freddy Ravello	Sporting Cristal	January 28, 1958	2	0	0

Coach: José Chiarella 

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