Association Football
- Football World Cup – Argentina wins 3-1 (after extra time) over the Netherlands
- England - FA Cup – Ipswich Town win 1-0 over Arsenal
- England - League – Nottingham Forest win the championship as well as the League Cup
- Kirin Cup tournament is first held in Japan (international club competition phase).
- Major Indoor Soccer League begins operations in the United States.
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“The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.”
—French National Assembly. Declaration of the Rights of Man (drafted and discussed August 1789, published September 1791)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)