2002 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads explained

Below are listed all participating squads of the 2002 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, held in Salta, Córdoba, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Santa Fe and San Juan, Argentina from 28 September to 13 October 2002 .

Squads

Argentina

See main article: Argentina men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTH DATE (AGE)
1.	Marcos Milinkovic	September 28, 2002
2.	Jorge Elgueta	September 28, 2002
3.	Gustavo Porporatto	September 28, 2002
6.	Javier Weber	September 28, 2002
7.	Hugo Conte	September 28, 2002
8.	Hernán Ferraro	September 28, 2002
10.	Alejandro Spajic	September 28, 2002
11.	Jerónimo Bidegain	September 28, 2002
13.	Santiago Darraidou	September 28, 2002
15.	Leonardo Patti	September 28, 2002
17.	Pablo Meana	September 28, 2002
18.	Gastón Giani	September 28, 2002
Coach	Carlos Getzelevitch

Australia

See main article: Australia men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Daniel Howard	September 28, 2002
2.	Steven Keir	September 28, 2002
3.	Grant Sorenssen	September 28, 2002
4.	Benjamin Hardy	September 28, 2002
5.	Luke Campbell	September 28, 2002
7.	Matthew Young	September 28, 2002
9.	Andrew Earl	September 28, 2002
10.	Anthony Wardrop	September 28, 2002
13.	Davis Ferguson	September 28, 2002
14.	Zane Christensen	September 28, 2002
15.	Hidde Van Beest	September 28, 2002
18.	Brett Alderman	September 28, 2002
Coach	Jon Uriarte	September 28, 2002

Brazil

See main article: Brazil men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
3.	Giovane Gávio	September 28, 2002
5.	Henrique Randow	September 28, 2002
6.	Mauricio Lima	September 28, 2002
7.	Gilberto Godoy	September 28, 2002
9.	André Nascimento	September 28, 2002
10.	Sérgio Santos	September 28, 2002
11.	Anderson Rodrigues	September 28, 2002
12.	Nalbert Bitencourt	September 28, 2002
13.	Gustavo Endres	September 28, 2002
14.	Rodrigo Santana	September 28, 2002
17.	Ricardo García	September 28, 2002
18.	Dante Amaral	September 28, 2002
Coach	Bernardo Rezende	September 28, 2002

Bulgaria

See main article: Bulgaria men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Evgeni Ivanov	September 28, 2002
2.	Vesselin Dimtchev	September 28, 2002
4.	Yuli Vasilev	September 28, 2002
6.	Ivaylo Stefanov	September 28, 2002
7.	Danail Milushev	September 28, 2002
8.	Hristo Tsvetanov	September 28, 2002
11.	Vladimir Nikolov	September 28, 2002
12.	Nikolay Ivanov	September 28, 2002
13.	Vladimir Atapov	September 28, 2002
16.	Georgi Valov	September 28, 2002
17.	Plamen Konstantinov	September 28, 2002
18.	Daniel Peyev	September 28, 2002
Coach	Asen Galabinov

Canada

See main article: Canada men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Doug Bruce	September 28, 2002
2.	Sébastien Ruette	September 28, 2002
3.	Keith Sanheim	September 28, 2002
4.	Jason Dufault	September 28, 2002
8.	Scott Koskie	September 28, 2002
9.	Paul Duerden	September 28, 2002
11.	Steven Brinkman	September 28, 2002
12.	Christopher Wolfenden	September 28, 2002
13.	Daniel Lewis	September 28, 2002
14.	Murray Grapentine	September 28, 2002
15.	Jason Haldane	September 28, 2002
16.	Terence Martin	September 28, 2002
Coach	Stelio di Rocco

PR China

See main article: China men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Zhang Xiaodong	September 28, 2002
2.	Sui Shengsheng	September 28, 2002
3.	Zheng Liang	September 28, 2002
4.	Lu Fei	September 28, 2002
7.	Tang Miao	September 28, 2002
8.	Shi Hairong	September 28, 2002
9.	He Jiong	September 28, 2002
10.	Li Hang	September 28, 2002
12.	Shen Qiong	September 28, 2002
14.	Wang Haichuan	September 28, 2002
15.	Chu Hui	September 28, 2002
16.	Li Chun	September 28, 2002
Coach	Di Anhe

Croatia

See main article: Croatia men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
2.	Ratko Periš	September 28, 2002
3.	Robert Celan	September 28, 2002
4.	Ante Jakovčević	September 28, 2002
5.	Dejan Laninović	September 28, 2002
6.	Stanislav Zimakijević	September 28, 2002
7.	Ivan Donald Marić	September 28, 2002
8.	Igor Šimunčić	September 28, 2002
9.	Igor Omrčen	September 28, 2002
11.	Darko Antunovic	September 28, 2002
12.	Tomislav Čošković	September 28, 2002
14.	Inoslav Krnić	September 28, 2002
17.	Vadim Evtoukovich	September 28, 2002
Coach	Igor Arbutina	September 28, 2002

Cuba

See main article: Cuba men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Yosleider Cala	September 28, 2002
3.	Yaniel Garay	September 28, 2002
4.	Yasser Portuondo	September 28, 2002
5.	Dariel García	September 28, 2002
7.	Ariel Gil Valdes	September 28, 2002
8.	Pavel Pimienta	September 28, 2002
9.	Maikel Salas	September 28, 2002
10.	Tomás Aldazabal	September 28, 2002
11.	Raidel Poey	September 28, 2002
15.	Javier González Panton	September 28, 2002
17.	Odelvis Dominic	September 28, 2002
18.	Javier Brito	September 28, 2002
Coach	Elizeo Ramos

Czech Republic

See main article: Czech Republic men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Martin Lébl	September 28, 2002
2.	Jiří Popelka	September 28, 2002
5.	Jaroslav Škach	September 28, 2002
6.	Martin Kryštof	September 28, 2002
7.	Michal Rak	September 28, 2002
8.	Přemysl Kubala	September 28, 2002
9.	Ondřej Hudeček	September 28, 2002
10.	Jiří Novák	September 28, 2002
12.	Ivo Dubš	September 28, 2002
13.	Jiří Cerha	September 28, 2002
14.	Petr Zapletal	September 28, 2002
16.	Petr Pláteník	September 28, 2002
Coach	Julio Velasco	September 28, 2002

Egypt

See main article: Egypt men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Hamdy Awad	September 28, 2002
2.	Ashraf Abouel Hassan	September 28, 2002
3.	Mohamed El Mahdy	September 28, 2002
4.	Nehad Shehata	September 28, 2002
6.	Mahmoud Hassona	September 28, 2002
8.	Eslan Awad	September 28, 2002
9.	Ibrahim Rashwan	September 28, 2002
10.	Mahmoud Abdel Aziz	September 28, 2002
11.	Mohamed Moselhy	September 28, 2002
12.	Mohamed Bekheet	September 28, 2002
13.	Weal Said	September 28, 2002
14.	Ahmed Abd Elsatar	September 28, 2002
Coach	Abdelhamid Elwassimy

France

See main article: France men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
2.	Hubert Henno	September 28, 2002
3.	Dominique Daquin	September 28, 2002
7.	Stéphane Antiga	September 28, 2002
8.	Laurent Capet	September 28, 2002
9.	Frantz Granvorka	September 28, 2002
10.	Vincent Montméat	September 28, 2002
11.	Loïc De Kergret	September 28, 2002
12.	Luc Marquet	September 28, 2002
14.	Philippe Barca-Cysique	September 28, 2002
16.	Mathias Patin	September 28, 2002
17.	Olivier Kieffer	September 28, 2002
18.	Sébastien Frangolacci	September 28, 2002
0.	Rémi Gaillard	September 28, 2002
Coach	Philippe Blain

Greece

See main article: Greece men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
2.	Marios Giourdas	September 28, 2002
3.	Theodoros Chatziantoniou	September 28, 2002
4.	Chrysanthos Kyriazis	September 28, 2002
5.	Theodoros Bozidis	September 28, 2002
6.	Vasileios Kournetas	September 28, 2002
9.	Christos Dimitrakopoulos	September 28, 2002
10.	Antonios Tsakiropoulos	September 28, 2002
11.	Nikolaos Roumeliotis	September 28, 2002
12.	Georgios Ntrakovits	September 28, 2002
14.	Sotirios Pantaleon	September 28, 2002
15.	Ilias Lappas	September 28, 2002
18.	Zlatkov Bayev	September 28, 2002
Coach	Stelios Prosalikas

Italy

See main article: Italy men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Luigi Mastrangelo	September 28, 2002
3.	Pasquale Gravina	September 28, 2002
4.	Ferdinando De Giorgi	September 28, 2002
5.	Valerio Vermiglio	September 28, 2002
6.	Samuele Papi	September 28, 2002
7.	Andrea Sartoretti	September 28, 2002
9.	Cristian Casoli	September 28, 2002
11.	Hristo Zlatanov	September 28, 2002
12.	Mirko Corsano	September 28, 2002
13.	Andrea Giani	September 28, 2002
14.	Alessandro Fei	September 28, 2002
16.	Luca Tencati	September 28, 2002
Coach	Andrea Anastasi	September 28, 2002

Japan

See main article: Japan men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
3.	Nobuhiro Ito	September 28, 2002
4.	Nobuyoshi Hosokawa	September 28, 2002
5.	Hiroyuki Kai	September 28, 2002
7.	Makoto Yamaguchi	September 28, 2002
8.	Katsutoshi Tsumagari	September 28, 2002
9.	Hiroaki Kawaura	September 28, 2002
10.	Takeshi Kitajima	September 28, 2002
11.	Yoichi Kato	September 28, 2002
13.	Ryu Morishige	September 28, 2002
14.	Takahiro Yamamoto	September 28, 2002
15.	Atsushi Kobayashi	September 28, 2002
17.	Yuta Abe	September 28, 2002
Coach	Mikiyasu Tanaka

Kazakhstan

See main article: Kazakhstan men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Marat Imangaliyev	September 28, 2002
3.	Ildar Gafarov	September 28, 2002
4.	Antonios Vazhenin	September 28, 2002
5.	Denis Zhukov	September 28, 2002
7.	Roman Panenko	September 28, 2002
8.	Marat Adryshev	September 28, 2002
10.	Vladimir Derevyanko	September 28, 2002
11.	Bakhytzhan Baitureyev	September 28, 2002
12.	Dmitriy Gorbatkov	September 28, 2002
13.	Airat Shigapov	September 28, 2002
15.	Danil Semeyev	September 28, 2002
16.	Dmitriy Zavgorodniy	September 28, 2002
Coach	Alexander Zapevalov

Netherlands

See main article: Netherlands men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Jan van Gendt	September 28, 2002
2.	Nico Freriks	September 28, 2002
3.	Sander Olsthoorn	September 28, 2002
4.	Reinder Nummerdor	September 28, 2002
5.	Guido Görtzen	September 28, 2002
6.	Richard Schuil	September 28, 2002
12.	Jochem de Gruyter	September 28, 2002
13.	Joppe Paulides	September 28, 2002
14.	Robert Horstink	September 28, 2002
15.	Joram Maan	September 28, 2002
16.	Allan van de Loo	September 28, 2002
18.	Dennis van der Veen	September 28, 2002
Coach	Bert Goedkoop

Poland

See main article: Poland men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
3.	Piotr Gruszka	September 28, 2002
4.	Marcin Nowak	September 28, 2002
6.	Dawid Murek	September 28, 2002
7.	Grzegorz Wagner	September 28, 2002
8.	Rafał Musielak	September 28, 2002
9.	Wojciech Serafin	September 28, 2002
10.	Robert Prygiel	September 28, 2002
12.	Jarosław Stancelewski	September 28, 2002
13.	Sebastian Świderski	September 28, 2002
14.	Paweł Papke	September 28, 2002
15.	Piotr Lipiński	September 28, 2002
16.	Arkadiusz Gołaś	September 28, 2002
Coach	Waldemar Wspaniały	September 28, 2002

Portugal

See main article: Portugal men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Roberto Reis	September 28, 2002
2.	Carlos Teixeira	September 28, 2002
3.	Nuno Pinheiro	September 28, 2002
5.	Fábio Milhazes	September 28, 2002
6.	Manuel Fernando Silva	September 28, 2002
8.	Hugo Gaspar	September 28, 2002
9.	Adriano Filipe Paço	September 28, 2002
11.	Ubirajara Pereira	September 28, 2002
12.	João José	September 28, 2002
14.	Flavio Cruz	September 28, 2002
15.	Jorge Alves	September 28, 2002
18.	Eurico Peixoto	September 28, 2002
Coach	Juan Diaz

Russia

See main article: Russia men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
2.	Vadim Khamuttskikh	September 28, 2002
4.	Ruslan Olikhver	September 28, 2002
5.	Pavel Abramov	September 28, 2002
8.	Evgeni Mitkov	September 28, 2002
9.	Sergey Tetyukhin	September 28, 2002
10.	Roman Yakovlev	September 28, 2002
11.	Konstantin Ushakov	September 28, 2002
14.	Taras Khtey	September 28, 2002
13.	Andrey Egorchev	September 28, 2002
14.	Aleksandr Kosarev	September 28, 2002
15.	Aleksandr Gerasimov	September 28, 2002
18.	Aleksey Kuleshov	September 28, 2002
Coach	Guennadi Chipouline

Spain

See main article: Spain men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Rafael Pascual	September 28, 2002
4.	Alfonso Flores	September 28, 2002
5.	Luis Pedro Suela	September 28, 2002
6.	Juan Carlos Vega	September 28, 2002
8.	Gustavo Saucedo	September 28, 2002
9.	Alexis Valido	September 28, 2002
10.	Cosme Prenafeta	September 28, 2002
11.	Carlos Carreño	September 28, 2002
12.	Guillermo Falasca	September 28, 2002
14.	José Luis Moltó	September 28, 2002
16.	Juan José Salvador	September 28, 2002
17.	Enrique de la Fuente	September 28, 2002
Coach	Francisco Hervás	September 28, 2002

Tunisia

See main article: Tunisia men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Mohamed Trabelsi	September 28, 2002
3.	Mehdi Gara	September 28, 2002
5.	Samir Sellami	September 28, 2002
7.	Chaker Ghezal	September 28, 2002
9.	Khaled Belaïd	September 28, 2002
10.	Walid Ben Abbes	September 28, 2002
11.	Marouane Fehri	September 28, 2002
13.	Noureddine Hfaiedh	September 28, 2002
14.	Mehrez Berriri	September 28, 2002
15.	Ghazi Guidara	September 28, 2002
17.	Walid Ben Cheikh	September 28, 2002
18.	Hosni Karamosly	September 28, 2002
Coach	Antonio Giacobbe

United States

See main article: United States men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Lloy Ball	September 28, 2002
2.	Christopher Seiffert	September 28, 2002
4.	David McKienzie	September 28, 2002
5.	Erik Sullivan	September 28, 2002
6.	Scott Bunker	September 28, 2002
8.	William Priddy	September 28, 2002
9.	Ryan Millar	September 28, 2002
10.	Riley Salmon	September 28, 2002
11.	Brook Billings	September 28, 2002
13.	Clayton Stanley	September 28, 2002
17.	Polster Poister	September 28, 2002
18.	Adam Naeve	September 28, 2002
Coach	Doug Beal	September 28, 2002

Venezuela

See main article: Venezuela men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
2.	Carlos Tejada	September 28, 2002
3.	Andy Rojas	September 28, 2002
4.	Gustavo Valderrama	September 28, 2002
5.	Rodman Valera	September 28, 2002
6.	Carlos Luna	September 28, 2002
7.	Luis Díaz	September 28, 2002
8.	Andrés Manzanillo	September 28, 2002
9.	Héctor Guzmán	September 28, 2002
10.	Ronald Méndez	September 28, 2002
11.	Ernardo Gómez	September 28, 2002
14.	Thomas Ereu	September 28, 2002
18.	Fredy Cedeño	September 28, 2002
Coach	José David Suárez	b1953

Yugoslavia

See main article: Yugoslavia men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Rajko Jokanović	September 28, 2002
2.	Goran Marić	September 28, 2002
4.	Bojan Janić	September 28, 2002
6.	Slobodan Boškan	September 28, 2002
7.	Đula Mešter	September 28, 2002
8.	Vasa Mijić	September 28, 2002
9.	Nikola Grbić	September 28, 2002
10.	Vladimir Grbić	September 28, 2002
12.	Andrija Gerić	September 28, 2002
13.	Goran Vujević	September 28, 2002
14.	Ivan Miljković	September 28, 2002
18.	Igor Vušurović	September 28, 2002
Coach	Veselin Vuković

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