2006 Men's Hockey World Cup squads

This article lists the confirmed squads lists for 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup between September 6 to September 17, 2006.

Pool A

Argentina

Head coach: Sergio Vigil

No. Player Pos. Age 1 Juan Manuel Vivaldi GK 27 2 Juan Pablo Hourquebie 30 3 Juan Martin Lopez 21 4 Matias Vila 27 5 Ezequiel Paulón 30 6 Mariano Chao GK 34 7 Mario Almada 31 9 Rodrigo Vila 24 11 Lucas Cammareri 25

No. Player Pos. Age 12 Marcos Riccardi 24 15 Germán Orozco (c) 31 16 Fernando Oscaris 26 17 Matias Paredes 24 19 Matias Cammareri 27 20 Tomás Argento 19 21 Lucas Vila 20 22 Matias Rey 21 26 Pedro Ibarra 20

Australia

Head coach: Barry Dancer

No. Player Pos. Age 1 Jamie Dwyer 27 2 Liam de Young 24 3 Michael Boyce 26 4 Michael McCann 28 5 Troy Elder 28 6 Robert Hammond 25 7 Nathan Eglington 25 9 Mark Knowles 22 10 Russell Ford 23

No. Player Pos. Age 13 Luke Doerner 27 15 Bevan George 29 18 Stephen Lambert GK 26 20 Matt Naylor 23 21 Aaron Hopkins 26 24 Travis Brooks 26 25 Brent Livermore (c) 30 26 Dean Butler 29 30 Stephen Mowlam GK 29

Japan

Head coach: Akira Takahashi

No. Player Pos. Age 1 Hirofumi Miyoshi GK 29 2 Shunsuke Nagaoka GK 25 3 Kazuo Yoshida 28 4 Mitsuru Ito 27 5 Yutaka Bito 25 7 Kei Kawakami 22 8 Kenichi Katayama 30 9 Kazuyuki Ozawa (c) 27 10 Kazuhiro Tsubouchi 24

No. Player Pos. Age 12 Takahiko Yamabori 32 14 Toshiaki Fukuda 26 15 Akira Ito 25 16 Yasuaki Nishimura 23 17 Yuji Chaki 25 19 Takayasu Mizawa 19 21 Yoshihiro Anai 18 22 Hiroko Sakamoto 19 23 Naohiko Tobita 29

New Zealand

Head coach: Kevin Towns

No. Player Pos. Age 2 Mitesh Patel 30 6 Simon Child 18 7 Blair Hopping 26 8 Dean Couzins 25 10 Ryan Archibald (c) 26 12 Bradley Shaw 23 14 Bevan Hari 31 16 Paul Woolford GK 29 17 Kyle Pontifex GK 26

No. Player Pos. Age 18 Phil Burrows 26 19 Hayden Shaw 26 20 James Nation 29 21 Bryce Collins 28 22 Lloyd Stephenson 25 24 Gareth Brooks 27 25 Shea McAleese 22 28 Richard Petherick 20 30 Ben Collier 22

Pakistan

Head coach: Nasir Ali

No. Player Pos. Age 1 Rehan Butt 26 2 Ihsan Ullah 22 4 Ghanzafar Ali 25 5 Muhammad Saqlain (c) 28 7 Dilawar Hussain 27 8 Adnan Maqsood 27 9 Sohail Abbas 29 10 Salman Akbar GK 24 11 Muhammad Shabbir 28

No. Player Pos. Age 12 Nasir Ahmad GK 21 15 Shakeel Abbasi 22 16 Muhammad Zubair 17 17 Akhtar Ali 20 19 Muhammad Imran 27 20 Waseem Ahmad 29 22 Zeeshan Ashraf 29 23 Waqas Akbar 17 31 Adnan Zakir 19

Spain

Head coach: Maurits Hendriks

No. Player Pos. Age 1 Bernardino Herrera GK 28 2 Santi Freixa 23 4 Oriol Freixa 27 5 Francisco Fábregas Monegal (c) 28 6 Franc Dinares 18 8 Alex Fàbregas 25 9 Pablo Amat 28 10 Eduardo Tubau 25 12 Juan Fernandez 21

No. Player Pos. Age 13 Ramón Alegre 25 15 Víctor Sojo 22 16 Xavier Ribas 30 17 Albert Sala 25 18 Rodrigo Garza 26 19 Pau Quemada 23 20 Sergi Enrique 18 22 Francisco Cortés GK 23 23 David Alegre 22

Pool B

England

Head coach: Jason Lee

No. Player Pos. Age 3 Nick Brothers GK 23 4 Glenn Kirkham 23 5 Richard Alexander 24 6 Richard Mantell 25 7 Jerome Goudie 29 8 Simon Mantell 22 9 Martin Jones 25 10 Matt Daly 23 11 Brett Garrard 30

No. Player Pos. Age 12 Jonty Clarke 25 13 Rob Moore 25 14 Ben Hawes 26 15 Scott Cordon 26 17 Alistair Wilson 22 18 Barry Middleton 22 20 James Tindall 23 21 Jon Bleby 26 25 James Fair GK 25

Germany

Head coach: Bernhard Peters

No. Player Pos. Age 1 Christian Schulte GK 31 2 Ulrich Bubolz GK 25 4 Philipp Crone 29 5 Sebastian Biederlack 24 6 Eike Duckwitz 26 7 Carlos Nevado 23 9 Moritz Fürste 21 10 Jan Marco Montag 23 11 Björn Emmerling 30

No. Player Pos. Age 13 Justus Scharowsky 26 14 Tibor Weißenborn 25 16 Niklas Meinert 25 17 Timo Weß (c) 24 19 Christopher Zeller 21 22 Matthias Witthaus 23 25 Philipp Zeller 23 26 Oliver Hentschel 25 29 Sebastian Draguhn 22

India

Head coach: Vasudevan Baskaran

No. Player Pos. Age 1 Bharat Chettri GK 24 2 Dilip Tirkey (c) 28 3 Kanwalpreet Singh 24 4 V. R. Raghunath 18 6 Prabodh Tirkey 21 9 Gagan Ajit Singh 23 10 Tejbir Singh 23 11 Nitin Kumar 22 12 Adrian D'Souza GK 22

No. Player Pos. Age 15 Rajpal Singh 23 16 Shivendra Singh 23 18 Viren Rasquinha 25 19 Gowdalli Hariprasad 20 21 Vinaya Vakkaliga Swamy 20 22 Ignace Tirkey 25 23 Arjun Halappa 26 27 Vikram Pillay 24 28 Tushar Khandker 21

Korea

Head coach: Cho Sang-Jun

No. Player Pos. Age 1 Ko Dong-Sik GK 32 2 Lee Seung-il 23 3 Kim Chul 26 5 Kim Yong-Bae (c) 32 6 Lee Nam-Yong 22 7 Seo Jong-Ho 26 8 Kang Seong-Jung 28 9 Yoon Sung-Hoon 23 10 You Hyo-Sik 24

No. Player Pos. Age 11 Lee Jung-Seon 30 13 Yeo Chang-Yong 21 14 Lee Sung-Min 22 15 Cha Jong-Bok 26 16 Lee Myung-Ho GK 26 17 Hong Eun-Seong 23 18 Hong Sung-Kweon 22 19 Yeo Woon-Kon 32 25 Jang Jong-Hyun 22

Netherlands

Head coach: Roelant Oltmans

No. Player Pos. Age 1 Guus Vogels GK 31 3 Geert-Jan Derikx DF 25 4 Karel Klaver FW 27 7 Sander van der Weide DF 30 8 Ronald Brouwer FW 27 9 Roderick Weusthof FW 24 10 Taeke Taekema DF 26 12 Jeroen Delmee (c) MF 33 13 Klaas Veering GK 24

No. Player Pos. Age 14 Teun de Nooijer MF 30 15 Eby Kessing MF 22 16 Floris Evers MF 23 18 Rob Reckers FW 25 19 Matthijs Brouwer FW 26 20 Jesse Mahieu DF 28 23 Timme Hoyng MF 30 24 Robert van der Horst DF 21 27 Rogier Hofman FW 20

South Africa

No. Player Pos. Age 1 Andrew Cronje 22 2 Lloyd Norris-Jones 20 3 Ken Forbes 28 5 Justin Reid-Ross 20 6 Bruce Jacobs (c) 31 7 Wayne Madsen 22 8 Brett Tucker 27 10 Tommy Hammond 21 11 Clyde Abrahams 27

No. Player Pos. Age 14 Eric Rose-Innes 25 15 Brenden Botes GK 23 16 Marvin Bam 28 17 Geoff Abbott 21 18 Thornton McDade 25 19 Chris Hibbert GK 30 21 Lungile Tsolekile 22 22 Ian Symons 26 26 Denzil Dolley 29

External links

• Official squad lists