March 15 – Armand Seghers (78), Belgian footballer March 15 – Bill McGarry (77), English footballer and manager April April 3 – Kader Firoud (85), French footballer and manager April 8 – Maurice Lafont (78), French footballer April 11 – Lucien Laurent (97), French footballer May May 5 – Willy Steffen (80), Swiss footballer May 7 – Otilino Tenorio (25), Ecuadorian footballer May 8 – Gianpietro Zappa (49), Swiss footballer May 8 – Wolfgang Blochwitz (64), German footballer May 23 – Sígfrid Gràcia (73), Spanish footballer May 29 – Gé van Dijk (81), Dutch footballer and manager May 29 – Svatopluk Pluskal (74), Czech footballer June June 25 – Hugo Cunha (28), Portugal footballer July July 26 – Mario David (71), Italian footballer July 28 – Jair da Rosa Pinto, Brazilian midfielder, runner-up at the 1950 FIFA World Cup. (84) August August 16 – Michel Pavic (83), Yugoslavian footballer and coach August 19 – Oscar Muller (48), French footballer September September 8 – Noel Cantwell (72), Northern Ireland footballer and coach September 12 – Alain Polaniok (47), French footballer and coach September 13 – Toni Fritsch (60), Austrian footballer (later an American football placekicker) September 27 – Karl Decker (84), Austrian footballer and coach September 28 – Enric Gensana (69), Spanish footballer October October 3 – Francesco Scoglio (64), Italian coach October 9 – Sergio Cervato (76), Italian footballer October 17 – Carlos Gomes (73), Portuguese footballer October 18 – Johnny Haynes (71), English footballer October 26 – George Swindin (90), English footballer November November 2 – Ferruccio Valcareggi (86), Italian footballer and coach of Italy national football team November 9 – Marceau Sommerlynck (83), French footballer November 14 – Erich Schanko (86), German footballer November 25 – George Best (59), Northern Ireland footballer November 29 – David di Tommaso (26), French footballer References Association football by year