The 2006 FIBA World Championship squads were the squads of the
2006 FIBA World Championship
The 2006 FIBA World Championship was the 15th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's national teams. The tournament was hosted by Japan and held from 19 August to 3 September 2006. It was co-organised by ...
. The list includes the 12-men rosters of the 24 participating countries, totaling 288 players.
Group A
Argentina
Head coach:
Sergio Hernández
France
Head coach:
Claude Bergeaud
NB: Diarra replaced
Tony Parker
William Anthony Parker Jr. (born 17 May 1982) is a French-American former professional basketball player and majority owner of ASVEL Basket in LNB Pro A. Himself the son of a basketball pro, Parker started his career at Paris Basket Racing in ...
, who suffered a broken finger, just before the 24-hour deadline for submitting final squads.
Lebanon
Head coach:
Paul Coughter
Nigeria
Head Coach:
Sanni Ahmed
Serbia and Montenegro
Head Coach:
Dragan Šakota
Dragan Šakota (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Шакота, Greek: Ντράγκαν Σάκοτα; born June 16, 1952) is a Serbian professional basketball coach, currently with LBa basketball club, Pallacanestro Reggiana.
Playing career
Šakot ...
Venezuela
Head Coach:
Néstor Salazar
Group B
Angola
Head coach:
Alberto de Carvalho
Alberto de Carvalho, nicknamed Ginguba (born 18 August 1956), is an Angolan-Portuguese professional basketball coach. He is a former coach of the Angola national basketball team.
Before moving to Angola where he won two straight national champi ...
Germany
Head coach:
Dirk Bauermann
Dirk Bauermann (born 10 December 1957) is a German professional basketball coach.
Playing career
Bauermann played club basketball in the German senior club of BBC Krefeld, from 1975 to 1981.
Club coaching career
Bauermann was an assistant coach ...
Japan
Head coach:
Željko Pavličević
Željko Pavličević (born 26 March 1951) is a Croatian professional basketball coach and former player. He currently serves as the head coach for ASEAN Basketball League Eastern Long Lions.
Early life
Pavličević began playing basketball in 19 ...
New Zealand
Head coach:
Tab Baldwin
NB: Ben Hill was put on standby when Mark Dickel tested positive for
cannabis
''Cannabis'' () is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae. The number of species within the genus is disputed. Three species may be recognized: '' Cannabis sativa'', '' C. indica'', and '' C. ruderalis''. Alternative ...
after a July match against Australia. However his suspension did not rule him out from any Championship games.
Panama
Head coach:
Guillermo Vecchio
Spain
Head coach:
Pepu Hernández
José Vicente "Pepu" Hernández Fernández (born 11 February 1958) is a Spanish former professional basketball coach.
Coaching career Club coaching career
During his club career, Hernández won the Spanish Cup in 2000, and the AEEB Spanish Co ...
Group C
Australia
Head coach:
Brian Goorjian
Brian Warwick Goorjian (born 28 July 1953) is an American-Australian professional basketball coach and former player served as the head coach of the Bay Area Dragons of the East Asia Super League (EASL). He is also currently the head coach of th ...
Brazil
Head coach:
Lula Ferreira
Greece
Head coach:
Panagiotis Giannakis
Panagiotis Giannakis ( el, Παναγιώτης Γιαννάκης, ; born January 1, 1959), alternatively spelled Panayiotis Yiannakis or Yannakis, is a retired Greek professional basketball player and coach. As a player, he was primarily a poin ...
Lithuania
Head coach:
Qatar
Head Coach:
Joseph Stiebing
Turkey
Head coach:
Bogdan Tanjević
Bogdan Tanjević ( sr-cyr, Богдан Тањевић; born 13 February 1947), nicknamed "Boša" ( it, Boscia) is a Montenegrin professional basketball coach and former player.
He is best known for being KK Bosna's head coach when the club beca ...
Group D
China
Head coach:
Jonas Kazlauskas
Jonas Kazlauskas (born 21 November 1954) is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach and former player. He was most recently the head coach of the Guangdong Southern Tigers in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA).
Playing career
Kazlauskas ...
NB: Age discrepancies exist for at least two of these players. Yi's age is currently
a subject of controversy, with several reports indicating that he was actually born in 1984. Wang Zhizhi's passport lists his year of birth as 1979, but the
NBA, where he played for several years, lists him as having been born in 1977.
Italy
Head coach:
Carlo Recalcati
Carlo Recalcati (born September 11, 1945 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian professional basketball coach, and a former player.
He was the head coach of the senior Italian national basketball team, from 2001 to 2009, and led them to the silver medal ...
Puerto Rico
Head coach:
Julio Toro
Senegal
Head coach:
Moustapha Gaye
Slovenia
Head coach:
Aleš Pipan
Aleš Pipan (born 24 May 1959) is a Slovenian basketball coach and former basketball player, who is currently coach of Šentjur in the Liga Nova KBM.
Coaching career
Pipan coached Slovenia at the EuroBasket 2005, 2006 FIBA World Championship ...
United States
Head coach:
Mike Krzyzewski
Michael William Krzyzewski ( ; born February 13, 1947), nicknamed "Coach K", is an American former college basketball coach. He served as the head coach at Duke University from 1980 to 2022, during which he led the Blue Devils to five nati ...
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