2006 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship squads explained

This is a list of the all participating squads at the 2006 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship, held in several cities in Japan from 17 November to 3 December 2006.^[1]

Squads

Argentina

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Marcos Milinkovic	November 17, 2006
2.	Jerónimo Bidegain	November 17, 2006
4.	Nicolás Efrón	November 17, 2006
5.	Aníbal Gramaglia	November 17, 2006
6.	Gustavo Scholtis	November 17, 2006
8.	Leandro Concina	November 17, 2006
15.	Luciano de Cecco	November 17, 2006
16.	Martín Hernández	November 17, 2006
17.	Pablo Meana	November 17, 2006
18.	Gastón Giani	November 17, 2006
Coach	Jon Uriarte	November 17, 2006

Australia

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Daniel Howard	November 17, 2006
3.	Nathan Roberts	November 17, 2006
4.	Benjamin Hardy	November 17, 2006
5.	Luke Campbell	November 17, 2006
6.	Igor Yudin	November 17, 2006
7.	Matthew Young	November 17, 2006
8.	Andrew Grant	November 17, 2006
9.	Andrew Earl	November 17, 2006
11.	Phillip DeSalvo	November 17, 2006
14.	Nigel Panagopka	November 17, 2006
17.	Paul Carroll	November 17, 2006
18.	Brett Alderman	November 17, 2006
Coach	Russell Borgeaud

Brazil

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
2.	Marcelinho	November 17, 2006
4.	André Heller	November 17, 2006
7.	Gilberto Godoy	November 17, 2006
8.	Murilo Endres	November 17, 2006
9.	André Nascimento	November 17, 2006
10.	Sérgio Santos	November 17, 2006
11.	Anderson Rodrigues	November 17, 2006
12.	Samuel Fuchs	November 17, 2006
13.	Gustavo Endres	November 17, 2006
14.	Rodrigo Santana	November 17, 2006
17.	Ricardo García	November 17, 2006
18.	Dante Amaral	November 17, 2006
Coach	Bernardo Rezende	November 17, 2006

Bulgaria

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Evgeni Ivanov	June 3, 1974 (aged 32)
2.	Hristo Tsvetanov	November 17, 2006
3.	Andrey Zhekov	November 17, 2006
4.	Boyan Yordanov	November 17, 2006
5.	Ivan Zarev	November 17, 2006
6.	Matey Kaziyski	November 17, 2006
11.	Vladimir Nikolov	November 17, 2006
13.	Teodor Salparov	November 17, 2006
15.	Krasimir Gaydarski	November 17, 2006
16.	Todor Aleksiev	November 17, 2006
17.	Plamen Konstantinov	November 17, 2006
19.	Daniel Peev	November 17, 2006
Coach	Martin Stoev

Canada

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Louis-Pierre Mainville	November 17, 2006
2.	Christian Bernier	November 17, 2006
3.	Michael Munday	November 17, 2006
4.	Pascal Cardinal	November 17, 2006
8.	Scott Koskie	November 17, 2006
9.	Paul Duerden	November 17, 2006
10.	Brett Youngberg	November 17, 2006
11.	Steven Brinkman	November 17, 2006
13.	Daniel Lewis	November 17, 2006
14.	Murray Grapentine	November 17, 2006
15.	Frederic Winters	November 17, 2006
Coach	Glenn Hoag

China

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
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Coach	Zhou Jianan

Cuba

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Yadier Sánchez	November 17, 2006
2.	Tomás Aldazabal	November 17, 2006
3.	Jorge Luis Sánchez	November 17, 2006
4.	Yasser Portuondo	November 17, 2006
8.	Pavel Pimienta	November 17, 2006
9.	Michael Sánchez	November 17, 2006
13.	Robertlandy Simón	November 17, 2006
15.	Oriol Camejo	November 17, 2006
16.	Raydel Corrales	November 17, 2006
17.	Odelvis Dominic	November 17, 2006
18.	Yoandri Díaz	November 17, 2006
Coach	Roberto García

Czech Republic

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Martin Lébl	November 17, 2006
2.	Jiří Popelka	November 17, 2006
3.	Marek Novotný	November 17, 2006
6.	Ondřej Hudeček	November 17, 2006
7.	Michal Rak	November 17, 2006
11.	Jan Štokr	November 17, 2006
12.	Jiří Zadražil	November 17, 2006
14.	Petr Zapletal	November 17, 2006
15.	Přemysl Obdržálek	November 17, 2006
16.	Petr Pláteník	November 17, 2006
17.	David Konecný	November 17, 2006
18.	Lukáš Ticháček	November 17, 2006
Coach	Zdeněk Haník

Egypt

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Hamdy Awad	November 17, 2006
2.	Abdalla Ahmed	November 17, 2006
3.	Mohamed Gabal	November 17, 2006
4.	Ahmed Abd Elnaeim	November 17, 2006
5.	Ossama Bekheit	November 17, 2006
6.	Wael Al Aydy	November 17, 2006
7.	Ashraf Abouel Hassan	November 17, 2006
8.	Saleh Youssef	November 17, 2006
10.	Mahmoud Elkoumy	November 17, 2006
11.	Mohamed Elnafrawy	November 17, 2006
14.	Hossam Shaarawy	November 17, 2006
17.	Mahmoud Abdelkader	November 17, 2006
Coach	Rys Grzegorz

France

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Xavier Kapfer	November 17, 2006
3.	Gérald Hardy	November 17, 2006
7.	Stéphane Antiga	November 17, 2006
8.	Ludovic Castard	November 17, 2006
9.	Frantz Granvorka	November 17, 2006
11.	Loïc Le Marrec	November 17, 2006
12.	Florian Kilama	November 17, 2006
13.	Pierre Pujol	November 17, 2006
15.	Guillaume Samica	November 17, 2006
17.	Olivier Kieffer	November 17, 2006
18.	Jean-François Exiga	November 17, 2006
Coach	Phillipe Blain

Germany

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Marcus Popp	November 17, 2006
3.	Thomas Kröger	November 17, 2006
4.	Simon Tischer	November 17, 2006
5.	Björn Andrae	November 17, 2006
9.	Stefan Hübner	November 17, 2006
10.	Jochen Schöps	November 17, 2006
11.	Frank Dehne	November 17, 2006
12.	Christian Pampel	November 17, 2006
13.	Ralph Bergmann	November 17, 2006
14.	Robert Kromm	November 17, 2006
16.	Eugen Bakumovski	November 17, 2006
17.	Norbert Walter	November 17, 2006
Coach	Stelian Moculescu

Greece

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Konstantinos Christofidelis	November 17, 2006
6.	Vasileios Kournetas	November 17, 2006
7.	Georgios Stefanou	November 17, 2006
8.	Konstantinos Prousalis	November 17, 2006
10.	Ioannis Kyriakidis	November 17, 2006
11.	Nikolaos Roumeliotis	November 17, 2006
12.	Nikolaos Smaragdis	November 17, 2006
13.	Andreas Andreadis	November 17, 2006
14.	Sotirios Pantaleon	November 17, 2006
15.	Ilias Lappas	November 17, 2006
16.	Antrei Kravarik	November 17, 2006
18.	Tontor-Zlatkov Bayev	November 17, 2006
Coach	Konstantinos Charitonidis

Iran

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
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Coach	Milorad Kijac

Italy

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Luigi Mastrangelo	November 17, 2006
2.	Manuel Coscione	November 17, 2006
5.	Valerio Vermiglio	November 17, 2006
6.	Samuele Papi	November 17, 2006
8.	Alberto Cisolla	November 17, 2006
9.	Cristian Savani	November 17, 2006
12.	Mirko Corsano	November 17, 2006
14.	Alessandro Fei	November 17, 2006
15.	Andrea Semenzato	November 17, 2006
16.	Michal Lasko	November 17, 2006
18.	Matej Černič	November 17, 2006
Coach	Gianpaolo Montali

Japan

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Nobuharu Saito	November 17, 2006
3.	Shinya Chiba	November 17, 2006
4.	Kenji Onoue	November 17, 2006
6.	Ryuji Naohiro	November 17, 2006
7.	Takahiro Yamamoto	November 17, 2006
8.	Masaji Ogino	November 17, 2006
12.	Kota Yamamura	November 17, 2006
15.	Katsutoshi Tsumagari	November 17, 2006
16.	Yusuke Ishijima	November 17, 2006
17.	Yu Koshikawa	November 17, 2006
18.	Kosuke Tomonaga	November 17, 2006
Coach	Tatsuya Ueta

Kazakhstan

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
2.	Yevgeniy Senatorov	November 17, 2006
3.	Anton Yudin	November 17, 2006
4.	Yevgeniy Andreyev	November 17, 2006
7.	Dmitriy Gorbatkov	November 17, 2006
8.	Sergey Trikoz	November 17, 2006
9.	Marat Imangaliyev	November 17, 2006
10.	Alexey Stepanov	November 17, 2006
11.	Vladimir Derevyanko	November 17, 2006
12.	Denis Zhukov	November 17, 2006
14.	Anton Rubtsov	November 17, 2006
15.	Svyatoslav Miklashevich	November 17, 2006
16.	Kirill Konovalov	November 17, 2006
Coach	Vladimir Kondra

Poland

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
2.	Michał Winiarski	November 17, 2006
3.	Piotr Gruszka	November 17, 2006
4.	Daniel Pliński	November 17, 2006
5.	Paweł Zagumny	November 17, 2006
7.	Wojciech Grzyb	November 17, 2006
9.	Łukasz Żygadło	November 17, 2006
10.	Mariusz Wlazły	November 17, 2006
11.	Łukasz Kadziewicz	November 17, 2006
12.	Grzegorz Szymański	November 17, 2006
13.	Sebastian Świderski	November 17, 2006
15.	Piotr Gacek	November 17, 2006
17.	Michał Bąkiewicz	November 17, 2006
Coach	Raúl Lozano	November 17, 2006

Puerto Rico

See main article: Puerto Rico men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	José Rivera	November 17, 2006
2.	Gregory Berrios	November 17, 2006
4.	Víctor Rivera	November 17, 2006
5.	José Quiñones	November 17, 2006
6.	Ángel Pérez	November 17, 2006
8.	René Esteves	November 17, 2006
9.	Luis Rodríguez	November 17, 2006
10.	Víctor Bird	November 17, 2006
11.	Roberto Muñiz	November 17, 2006
12.	Héctor Soto	November 17, 2006
13.	Alexis Matias	November 17, 2006
16.	Enrique Escalante	November 17, 2006
Coach	Carlos Cardona

Russia

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Alexander Korneev	November 17, 2006
3.	Alexander Volkov	November 17, 2006
4.	Stanislav Dineykin	November 17, 2006
5.	Pavel Abramov	November 17, 2006
6.	Serguei Grankine	November 17, 2006
7.	Alexei Kazakov	November 17, 2006
9.	Semen Poltavsky	November 17, 2006
15.	Yuriy Berezhko	November 17, 2006
16.	Alexey Verbov	November 17, 2006
17.	Sergei Makarov	November 17, 2006
18.	Alexey Kuleshov	November 17, 2006
Coach	Zoran Gajić

Serbia and Montenegro

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
2.	Dejan Bojović	November 17, 2006
6.	Slobodan Boškan	November 17, 2006
8.	Marko Samardzic	November 17, 2006
9.	Nikola Grbić	November 17, 2006
10.	Vladimir Grbić	November 17, 2006
11.	Novica Bjelica	November 17, 2006
12.	Andrija Gerić	November 17, 2006
13.	Goran Vujević	November 17, 2006
14.	Ivan Miljković	November 17, 2006
15.	Veljko Petković	November 17, 2006
16.	Milos Nikić	November 17, 2006
18.	Marko Podraščanin	November 17, 2006
Coach	Igor Kolaković

South Korea

See main article: South Korea men's national volleyball team.

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Shin Jin-Sik	November 17, 2006
3.	Kwon Young-Min	November 17, 2006
4.	Moon Sung-Min	November 17, 2006
5.	Yeo Oh-Hyun	November 17, 2006
6.	Song Byung-Il	November 17, 2006
7.	Lee Sun-Kyu	November 17, 2006
9.	Who In-Jung	November 17, 2006
10.	Yun Bong-Woo	November 17, 2006
11.	Lee Kyung-Soo	November 17, 2006
12.	Kim Yo-han	November 17, 2006
16.	Ha Kyoung-Min	November 17, 2006
18.	Chang Byung-Chul	November 17, 2006
Coach	Kim Ho-Chul

Tunisia

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
2.	Mohamed Trabelsi	November 17, 2006
3.	Skander Ben Tara	November 17, 2006
5.	Samir Sellami	November 17, 2006
6.	Aymen Ben Brik	November 17, 2006
7.	Chaker Ghezal	November 17, 2006
9.	Khaled Belaïd	November 17, 2006
10.	Walid Ben Abbes	November 17, 2006
13.	Noureddine Hfaiedh	November 17, 2006
15.	Ghazi Guidara	November 17, 2006
16.	Hichem Kaabi	November 17, 2006
17.	Amine Besrour	November 17, 2006
18.	Hosni Karamosly	November 17, 2006
Coach	Antonio Giacobbe

United States

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
1.	Kyrt Ellis	November 17, 2006
2.	James Polster	November 17, 2006
5.	Richard Lambourne	November 17, 2006
6.	Phillip Eatherton	November 17, 2006
8.	William Priddy	November 17, 2006
9.	Ryan Millar	November 17, 2006
10.	Riley Salmon	November 17, 2006
12.	Thomas Hoff	November 17, 2006
13.	Clayton Stanley	November 17, 2006
15.	Gabriel Gardner	November 17, 2006
16.	David McKienzie	November 17, 2006
18.	Richard Taliaferro	November 17, 2006
Coach	Hugh McCutcheon	November 17, 2006

Venezuela

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

NR	NAME	BIRTHDATE
2.	Ismel Ramos	November 17, 2006
4.	Joel Silva	November 17, 2006
6.	Carlos Luna	November 17, 2006
7.	Luis Díaz	November 17, 2006
10.	Renzo Sánchez	November 17, 2006
11.	Ernardo Gómez	November 17, 2006
12.	Carlos Tejeda	November 17, 2006
13.	Iván Márquez	November 17, 2006
14.	Thomas Ereu	November 17, 2006
15.	Francisco Soteldo	November 17, 2006
17.	Juan Carlos Blanco	November 17, 2006
18.	Fredy Cedeño	November 17, 2006
Coach	Eliseo Ramos

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Daily bulletin . fivb.org . 16 November 2006.