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Overview of the events of 2010 in association football
The following are the association football events of the year 2010 throughout the world.
News
In 2010, the two top-level leagues in the United States both added at least one new team:
However, during the 2010 WPS season , another charter team, Saint Louis Athletica , folded, bringing WPS back to the same number of teams it had in the 2009 season. The league also lost its season champions, FC Gold Pride , and the Chicago Red Stars , although it will add an expansion team in Western New York for 2011.
Following the 2010 MLS regular season, the Kansas City Wizards announced a name change to Sporting Kansas City .
Deaths
January
1 January – Sergio Messen, Chilean midfielder (60)
1 January – Jean-Pierre Posca , French defender (57)
3 January - Gus Alexander , Scottish footballer (75)
7 January – Alex Parker , Scottish defender (74)
9 January - Améleté Abalo , Togolese football manager (47)
11 January - Johnny King , English footballer (83)
13 January - Tommy Sloan , Scottish footballer (84)
15 January – Detlev Lauscher , German striker (57)
18 January – Lino Grava , Italian defender (82)
19 January – Nils Jensen, Danish goalkeeper (74)
19 January – Panajot Pano , Albanian striker (70)
19 January - Christos Hatziskoulidis , Greek footballer (57)
20 January - Jack Parry , Welsh footballer (86)
21 January – Marino Bergamasco, Italian midfielder (84)
26 January – Lars Larsson , Swedish defender (76)
February
1 February - Bobby Kirk , Scottish footballer (82)
3 February – Gil Merrick , English goalkeeper (88)
5 February – Galimzyan Khusainov , Russian striker (72)
7 February - Bobby Dougan , Scottish footballer (83)
8 February – Angelo Franzosi , Italian goalkeeper (88)
9 February – Constant de Backer, Belgian midfielder (81)
10 February – Orlando , Brazilian defender (74)
11 February – Brian Godfrey , Welsh striker (69)
11 February – Yury Sevidov , Russian striker (67)
12 February – Werner Krämer , German striker (70)
12 February – Petar Borota , Serbian goalkeeper (57)
12 February – Luis Molowny , Spanish midfielder and manager (84)
13 February – Marian Parse, Romanian striker (23, cancer)
14 February – Zhang Yalin , Chinese midfielder (28, lymphoma)
February 15 – Juan Carlos González , Uruguayan defender, winner of the 1950 FIFA World Cup . (85)
16 February – Wan Chi Keung , Hong Kong striker (53)
18 February - Alan Gordon , Scottish footballer (65)
20 February - Bobby Cox , Scottish footballer (76)
22 February - Bobby Smith , Scottish footballer (56)
23 February – Gerhard Neef, German goalkeeper (63)
27 February - Charlie Crowe , English footballer (85)
28 February - Adam Blacklaw , Scottish footballer (72)
March
3 March - Keith Alexander , English footballer (53)
4 March - Tony Richards , English footballer (75)
6 March - Mansour Amirasefi , Iranian footballer (76)
6 March - Endurance Idahor , Nigerian footballer (25)
9 March - Gheorghe Constantin , Romanian footballer (77)
11 March - Wille MacFarlane , Scottish footballer (79)
12 March - Aleksandr Minayev , Russian footballer (51)
12 March - Hugh Robertson , Scottish footballer (70)
13 March - Édouard Kargu , French footballer (84)
13 March - Charlie Ashcroft , English footballer (83)
17 March - Abdellah Blinda , Moroccan footballer (58)
18 March - Júlio Correia da Silva , Portuguese footballer (90)
19 March - Bob Curtis , English footballer (60)
20 March - Naim Kryeziu , Albanian footballer (92)
27 March - Zbigniew Gut , Polish footballer (60)
28 March - Derlis Florentín , Paraguayan footballer (26)
April
3 April - Oleg Kopayev , Russian footballer (72)
6 April - Sid Storey , English footballer (90)
9 April - Zoltán Varga , Hungarian footballer (65)
10 April - Manfred Reichert , German footballer (69)
11 April - Hans-Joachim Göring , German footballer (86)
11 April - Theodor Homann , German footballer (61)
12 April - Alper Balaban , Turkish footballer (22)
13 April - Jorge Bontemps , Argentine footballer (32)
13 April - Charlie Timmins , English footballer (87)
15 April - Wilhelm Huxhorn , German footballer (54)
17 April - Alexandru Neagu , Romanian footballer (61)
21 April - Sammy Baird , Scottish footballer (79)
21 April - Tony Ingham , English footballer (85)
21 April - Manfred Kallenbach , German footballer (68)
22 April - Emilio Álvarez , Uruguayan footballer (71)
22 April - Victor Nurenberg , Luxembourgian footballer (79)
22 April - Piet Steenbergen , Dutch footballer (81)
25 April - Ian Lawther , Northern Irish footballer (70)
26 April – Alberto Vitoria , Spanish midfielder (54)
26 April - Yuri Vshivtsev , Russian footballer (70)
May
May - Bert Padden , Scottish football referee (born 1932)
3 May - Denis Obua , Ugandan footballer (62)
6 May - Guillermo Meza , Mexican footballer (21)
6 May - Giacomo Neri , Italian footballer (94)
7 May – Denovan Morales, Honduran midfielder (22)
11 May
13 May - Walter Klimmek , German football defender (91)
15 May - Besian Idrizaj , Austrian footballer (22)
19 May - Harry Vos , Dutch footballer (63)
24 May - Kambozia Jamali , Iranian midfielder (71)
26 May - Leo Canjels , Dutch footballer (77)
June
1 June - John Hagart , Scottish footballer (72)
4 June - Hennadiy Popovych , Ukrainian footballer (37)
6 June - Mabi de Almeida , Angolan football manager (46)
7 June - Jorge Ginarte , Argentine footballer (70)
9 June - Mohamed Sylla , Guinean footballer (39)
12 June – Mao Mengsuo , Chinese midfielder (20)
20 June – Lai Sun Cheung , Hong Kong defender (59)
20 June - Roberto Rosato , Italian footballer (66)
22 June - Amokrane Oualiken , Algerian footballer (77)
23 June - Jörg Berger , German footballer (65)
27 June - Édgar García de Dios , Mexican footballer (32)
July
July 1 - Eddie Moussa , Swedish footballer (26)
July 3 - Colin Gardner , British football manager
July 3 – Herbert Erhardt , West-German defender, winner of the 1954 FIFA World Cup , listed by the DFB in the top 20 best German defenders of all time. (79)
July 6 - Alekos Sofianidis , Greek footballer (76)
July 8 - Guillermo León , Costa Rican footballer
July 11 - Rudi Strittich , Austrian footballer (88)
July 13 - Ken Barnes , British footballer (81)
July 17 - Shaun Mawer , English footballer (50)
July 17 - Ioannis Stefas , Greek footballer (61)
July 17 - Gunārs Ulmanis , Latvian footballer (71)
July 19 - Joseph Aghoghovbia , Nigerian footballer (69)
July 19 - Daiki Sato , Japanese footballer (21)
July 28 - Daniel Pettit , English footballer (95)
July 29 - Alex Wilson , Polish footballer (76)
July 30 - Stanley Milburn , English footballer (83)
July 31 - Pedro Dellacha , Argentine footballer (84)
August
August 2 - José María Silvero , Argentine footballer (78)
August 3 - Edmund Zientara , Polish footballer (81)
August 5 - Yuri Shishlov , Russian footballer (65)
August 8 - Ken Boyes , English footballer (75)
August 8 - Massamasso Tchangai , Togolese footballer (32)
August 10 - Brian Clark , English footballer (67)
August 10 - Adam Stansfield , English footballer (31)
August 13 - Panagiotis Bachramis , Greek footballer (34)
August 22 - Raúl Belén , Argentine footballer (79)
August 22 – Juan Carlos González , Uruguayan defender, winner of the 1950 FIFA World Cup . (85)
August 22 - Stjepan Bobek , Yugoslav footballer (86)
August 27 - Oscar Ntwagae , South African footballer (33)
August 28 - Isa Bakar , Malaysian footballer (57)
August 30 - Francisco Varallo , Argentine striker and the last surviving player of the 1930 FIFA World Cup and the final . (100)
August 30 - Henryk Czapczyk , Polish footballer (88)
August 30 - Philip Tisson , Saint Lucian footballer (24)
September
2 September - Jackie Sinclair , Scottish midfielder (67, cancer)
3 September - Jose Augusto Torres , Portuguese striker and manager (71, heart failure)
10 September - Andrei Timoshenko , Russian striker (41)
10 September - Fridrikh Maryutin , Soviet striker (85)
11 September - Diego Rodríguez Cano , Uruguayan defender (22, car accident)
18 September - Bobby Smith , English striker (77, after a short illness)
18 September - Øystein Gåre , Norwegian manager (56, after a short illness)
22 September - Vyacheslav Tsaryov , Russian defender (39, after a short illness)
23 September - Fernando Riera , Chilean striker and manager (90)
28 September - Orvin Cabrera , Honduran striker (33, liver cancer)
October
1 October - Ian Buxton , English striker (72)
1 October - Bobby Craig , Scottish footballer (75)
1 October - Dezső Bundzsák , Hungarian midfielder and manager (82)
6 October - Norman Christie , Scottish footballer (85)
9 October - Les Fell , English midfielder (89)
12 October - José Casas 'Pepín' , Spanish goalkeeper (78)
13 October - Juan Carlos Arteche , Spanish midfielder (53, cancer)
13 October - Eddie Baily , English striker (85)
14 October - Malcolm Allison , English defender and manager (83, after a long illness)
18 October - Mel Hopkins , Welsh defender (75)
18 October - Hans Hägele , German striker and football agent (70, suicide)
21 October - Mustapha Anane , Algerian striker (60, after a long illness)
22 October - Franz Raschid , German midfielder (56, pancreatic cancer)
24 October - Fritz Grösche , German midfielder and manager (69, cancer)
26 October - Paul the Octopus , 2010 FIFA World Cup "oracle" (2, natural causes)
29 October - Ronnie Clayton , English midfielder (76)
30 October - John Benson , Scottish defender and manager (67, after a short illness)
November
3 November - Ron Cockerill , English defender (75)
8 November - Fred Blankemeijer , Dutch defender (84)
8 November - Tim Womack , English footballer (76)
12 November - Jim Farry , Former Chief Executive of the Scottish FA (56, heart attack)
15 November -Ángel Cabrera , Uruguayan footballer (71)
16 November - Ilie Savu , Romanian goalkeeper and manager (90)
November 17 - Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa , Brazilian defender, runner-up at the 1950 FIFA World Cup . (87)
18 November - Jim Cruickshank , Scottish goalkeeper (69)
24 November - Valentin Ivakin , Soviet goalkeeper and manager (80)
26 November - Mohammad Anwar Elahee , Mauritian defender and manager (81)
27 November - Steve Hill , English footballer (70)
28 November - Vladimir Maslachenko , Soviet European Nation's Cup winning goalkeeper (74)
December
3 December - Jose Ramos Delgado , Argentine defender (75, Alzheimer disease)
5 December - Shamil Burziyev , Russian defender (25, car accident)
6 December - Imre Mathesz , Hungarian midfielder (73)
6 December - Rene Hauss , French defender and manager (82)
7 December - Federico Vairo , Argentine defender (80, stomach cancer)
10 December - Marcel Domingo , French goalkeeper and manager (86)
11 December - Peter Risi , Swiss striker (60, after a long illness)
12 December - Emmanuel Ogoli , Nigerian defender (21, collapsed on the pitch)
14 December - Dale Roberts , English goalkeeper (24, suicide)
17 December - Ralph Coates , English midfielder (64, stroke)
21 December - Oleksandr Kovalenko , Ukrainian midfielder and referee (34, suicide)
21 December - Enzo Bearzot , Italian defender and World Cup winning manager (83)
24 December - Frans de Munck , Dutch goalkeeper (88)
26 December - Bill Jones , English defender (89)
27 December - Walter Balmer , Swiss international footballer (born 1948)
28 December - Jeff Taylor , English footballer (80)
29 December - Ramón Montesinos , Spanish midfielder (67)
29 December - Avi Cohen , Israeli defender (54, motorcycle accident) 
South Africa
Spain
Netherlands
Germany
Uruguay
England
Indonesia and 
Vietnam
Malaysia
Philippines, 
Portugal
United States
Sweden
China
Ecuador
Trinidad and Tobago
South Korea
Japan
North Korea
Colombia
Singapore
Bolivia
Haiti
Montenegro
Chile
Equatorial Guinea
Turkey
Iran
