1986 FIBA World Championship squads
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - 1986 FIBA World Championship squads
OR:
1986 FIBA World Championship squads on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

The 1986 FIBA World Championship squads were the squads of the 1986 FIBA World Championship, which was held in
Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...
, between 5 and 20 July 1986. Each one of the 24 teams at the tournament selected a squad of 12 players, for a total of 288 players.1986 Squads
on FIBA Archive


Group A

* Nilo Guimarães * Maury Ponickwar * Gerson Victalino * João José Vianna *
Rolando Ferreira Rolando Ferreira Júnior (born May 24, 1964) is a Brazilian former professional basketball player and coach. At a height of 2.16 m (7'1") tall, he played at the center position. College career Ferreira played college basketball at the Universit ...
* Paulinho Villas Boas * Jorge Guerra * Marcel Ponickwar * Marcelo Vido * Silvio Malvesi *
Oscar Schmidt Oscar Daniel Bezerra Schmidt (born February 16, 1958) is a retired Brazilian professional basketball player. He is also commonly known as Oscar Schmidt in Spain, where he played for Fórum Valladolid for the 1993–94 and 1994–95 seasons, ...
* Israel Andrade *
Richard Dacoury Richard Dacoury (born July 6, 1959, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast) is a former French professional basketball player. He retired in 1998, as the basketball player who won the most French League titles during his career, with 9. Dacoury is considered ...
*
Stéphane Ostrowski Stéphane Ostrowski (born 17 March 1962) is a retired French professional basketball player. At a height of 6 ft 8 in (2.05 m) tall, he played at the power forward position. He is widely considered to be one of the major figures of French ...
*
Hervé Dubuisson Hervé Dubuisson (born 8 August 1957) is a French former professional basketball player and coach. During his playing career, at a height of 1.97 m (6'5 ") tall, he played at the shooting guard and small forward positions. Dubuisson is the Frenc ...
* Frederic Hufnagel * Valéry Demory * Jacques Monclar * Jean-Luc Deganis * Eric Beugnot * Georges Vestris * Patrick Cham * Christian Garnier * Daniel Haquet * (Coach: Jean Galle) *
Nikos Galis Nikolaos Georgalis ( el, Νικόλαος Γεωργαλής; born July 23, 1957), commonly known as either Nikos Galis ( el, Νίκος Γκάλης), or Nick Galis, is a retired Greek professional basketball player. Galis, who during his playin ...
*
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 ...
*
Fanis Christodoulou Theofanis "Fanis" Christodoulou ( el, Θεοφάνης "Φάνης" Χριστοδούλου; born May 22, 1965) is a Greek former professional basketball player. He played mainly at small forward, but his complete all-around skills allowed him t ...
* Michalis Romanidis *
Nikos Filippou Nikolaos "Nikos" Filippou (alternate spelling: Filipou) ( el, Νικόλαος "Νίκος" Φιλίππου; born July 15, 1962, Ioannina, Greece) is a retired Greek professional basketball player. At a height of 2.02 m (6 ft 7 in.), he ...
*
Liveris Andritsos Liveris Andritsos ( el, Λιβέρης Ανδρίτσος; born December 31, 1959, in Athens, Greece) is a retired Greek professional basketball player and coach. At a height of 2.02 m (6'7 ") tall, he could play at both the small forward and po ...
*
Nikos Stavropoulos Nikolaos "Nikos" Stavropoulos (Greek: Νικόλαος "Νίκος" Σταυρόπουλος; born June 17, 1959), Professor Nicholas "Magic" Stavropoulos, is a former Greek professional basketball player and coach. During his club playing career ...
* Argiris Kambouris * Argyris Pedoulakis * Panagiotis Karatzas *
Dimitris Dimakopoulos Dimitris Dimakopoulos (alternate spelling: Dimitrios) ( el, Δημήτρης Δημακόπουλος; born January 28, 1966 in Thessaloniki, Greece) is a former Greece, Greek professional basketball player. Professional career Dimakopoulos start ...
*
Christos Christodoulou Christos Christodoulou ( el, Χρήστος "Κρις" Χριστοδούλου; born August 13, 1961) is a Greek former professional basketball player. At a height of 2.00 m (6' 6") tall, he played at the small forward and power forward positions ...
* (Coach: Kostas Politis) *
Hur Jae Hur Jae (born September 28, 1965) is a South Korean retired basketball coach and former player. His playing and coaching career combined spanned over three decades, beginning during the semi-professional era and coinciding with the establishmen ...
* Park In-kyu * Lee Min-hyun * Cho Yoon-ho * Han Ki-bum * Lee Mun-kyu *
Kim Hyun-jun Kim Hyun-jun (Hangul: 김현준; June 3, 1960 – October 2, 1999) was a South Korean basketball player. He played as a shooting guard. He was 182 cm (5 ft 11.75 in) tall. He competed at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, where the Sout ...
* Kim You-taek * Kim Sung-wook *
Lee Won-woo Lee Won-Woo (Hangul: 이원우, August 19, 1958 – May 24, 2004) was a South Korean basketball player. He played as a shooting guard. He is 188 cm (6 ft 2 in) tall. He competed at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, where the South Korean ...
* Lee Chung-hee * Goh Myong-hwa * (Coach: Kim In-kun) * Ernesto Malcolm *
Mario Butler Mario Alberto Butler Graham (born January 15, 1957) is a Panamanian retired professional basketball player. Butler spent most of his career playing in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN) in Puerto Rico. At , he played center and was known fo ...
*
Rolando Frazer Rolando Frazer Thorne (born July 3, 1958 in Panama City, Panama) is a Panamanian former professional basketball player. At a height of 6'7" (2.01 m) tall, he played at the power forward and center positions. He was an inaugural inductee of the ...
* Reggie Grenald * Rodolfo Gill * Fernando Pinillo * Braulio Rivas * Adolfo Medrick * Cirilo Escalona * Mario Gálvez * Enrique Grenald * Daniel Macias * (Coach: Frank Holness)


Group B

* Jean-Jacques * David Dias * Manuel Sousa *
Aníbal Moreira Aníbal de Jesús Moreira (born 17 September 1966) is an Angolan retired basketball player and current coach. He is an assistant coach for Petro de Luanda (basketball), Petro de Luanda. Playing career He competed at the Basketball at the 1992 Sum ...
* Adriano Baião * Josué Campos * José Carlos Guimaraes * Zezé Assis * Ademar Barros *
Paulo Macedo Paulo Macedo a Portuguese business manager and is the CEO of Caixa Geral de Depósitos since 2017. He was the Portuguese Health Minister from 2011 to 2015 and general director of taxes and chairman of the Fiscal Administration Board (2004–2007) ...
* Coach:
Victorino Cunha Victorino Eugénio da Silva e Cunha, (born April 18, 1945 in Mogofores, Portugal) is a former basketball player and basketball coach. While being born in Portugal, he moved to Angola at the age of 3. Cunha, who coached the Angola National team t ...
* Daniel Scott * Félix Morales * Raúl Dubois * Pedro Abreu * Luis Calderón * Noangel Luaces * Eduardo Cabrera * Luciano Rivero * Roberto Simón Salomón * Leonardo Pérez * José Carlos Caballero * Pedro Cobarrubia * (Coach: Juan Carmelo Ortega Díaz) *
Doron Jamchi Doron Jamchi, also spelled Jamchy ( he, דורון ג'מצ'י; born July 1, 1961), is an Israeli former professional basketball player. At a height of , he played at the shooting guard and small forward positions. He was the top scorer in the 19 ...
* Mickey Berkowitz *
Adi Gordon Adi Gordon ( he, עדי גורדון; born March 4, 1966) is an Israeli former professional basketball player. He was a two-time Israeli State Cup winner with Hapoel Jerusalem. He was a four-time Israeli Premier League Assists Leader, in 1992 to ...
* Tomer Steinhauer *
Howard Lassoff Howard Alan Lassoff (October 15, 1955 – February 7, 2013) was an American-Israeli basketball player. He also played in Israel for 14 years. Biography Initially interested in tennis, Lassoff grew to 6 feet 10 inches tall. He became interes ...
*
Hen Lippin Hen Lippin ( he, חן ליפין, born November 4, 1965 in Beitan Aharon), the youngest of three brothers, is a retired Israeli basketball player. Career Lippin joined Maccabi Tel Aviv in 1984, and played at the club for six seasons, wearing num ...
* Motti Daniel * Nir Rechlis *
Ari Rosenberg Ariel Rosenberg (ארי רוזנברג; born May 8, 1964) is an Israeli former basketball player. He played the guard position. He played in the Israeli Premier Basketball League and on the Israel national basketball team, and won a silver med ...
*
Doron Shefa Doron Shefa (דורון שפע; born October 3, 1961) is an Israeli former basketball player. He played the guard and forward positions. He was named to the Israeli Basketball Premier League Quintet in 1991. Biography Shefa is 6' 5" (1.96 meters ...
* Larry Bird-Curtis * Ofer Yaakobi * (Coach:
Zvi Sherf Zvi Sherf ( he, צבי שרף; born December 18, 1951 in Tel Aviv, Israel), known almost universally by his nickname Zvika ( he, צביקה), is an Israeli former basketball player and professional basketball coach. Coaching career Sherf played ...
) *
Arvydas Sabonis Arvydas Romas Sabonis (; born December 19, 1964) is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player and businessman. Recognized as one of the best European players of all time, he won the Euroscar six times and the Mr. Europa Award twice. He p ...
* Valdis Valters * Alexander Volkov *
Vladimir Tkachenko Vladimir Pyotrovich Tkachenko (alternate spelling: Vladimir Tkatchenko) (russian: Владимир Петрович Ткаченко; born September 20, 1957 in Sochi, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union) is a retired Sovi ...
*
Tiit Sokk Tiit Sokk (born 15 November 1964) is a retired Estonian professional basketball player and current coach. Often cited as one of the very best European point guards of his generation, he is widely recognized as the greatest Estonian basketball p ...
* Alexander Belostenny *
Rimas Kurtinaitis Rimas Kurtinaitis (born May 15, 1960) is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach, and a retired professional basketball player, who was a member of the senior Soviet and Lithuanian national basketball teams during his playing career. He won ...
*
Valdemaras Chomičius Valdemaras Chomičius (also known as Valdemaras Homicius; born May 4, 1959) is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player for the Soviet and Lithuanian national basketball team, and an assistant coach for the Lithuanian national team. ...
* Sergei Tarakanov * Valeri Tikhonenko * Sergei Grishaev * Andris Jekabsons * (Coach: Vladimir Obukhov) * Horacio López * Ramiro Cortés * Álvaro Tito * Joe McCall * Juan Mignone * Horacio Perdomo * Gabriel Waiter * Luis Larrosa * Luis Pierri * Carlos Peinado * Hebert Núñez * Gustavo Sczygielski * (Coach: Ramón Etchamendi)


Group C

*
Antonello Riva Antonello Riva (born 28 February 1962) is an Italian former professional basketball player. At 1.96 m (6'5"), he played at the shooting guard and small forward positions. During his playing career, he was nicknamed "Nembo Kid" (Italian version of ...
* Walter Magnifico *
Roberto Brunamonti Roberto Brunamonti (born 14 April 1959 in Spoleto) is a retired Italian professional basketball player and coach. At a height of 191 cm (6'3") tall, he played at the point guard position. He was among the 105 player nominees for the 50 Gr ...
*
Pierlo Marzorati Pierluigi "Pierlo" Marzorati (born 12 September 1952) is an Italian former professional basketball player. He is considered to have been one of the best point guards of all time in Europe, and was named the Mister Europa, in 1976. He was named ...
* Roberto Premier * Ario Costa * Renato Villalta * Augusto Binelli *
Romeo Sacchetti Romeo "Meo" Sacchetti (born August 20, 1953) is an Italian professional basketball coach and former player who is currently a head coach for Pallacanestro Cantù of the Serie A2. Standing at a height of 1.99 m (6 ft. 6 in.), he played ...
*
Sandro dell'Agnello Sandro Dell'Agnello (born 20 October 1961 in Livorno) is a former professional basketball player, and current basketball coach from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the Eurobasket 1991 in Italy. Standing at a height of 2 ...
* Enrico Gilardi *
Fulvio Polesello Fulvio is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Andrea Fulvio (c. 1470 – 1527), Renaissance humanist, poet and antiquarian of Rome, advisor to Raphael *Fulvio de Assis (born 1981), Brazilian professional basketball player *Fulvio ...
* (Coach:
Valerio Bianchini Valerio Bianchini (born July 22, 1943) is an Italian professional basketball coach. He was the first coach in the history of Italian basketball who won three championship titles with three clubs (Cantù, Virtus Roma and Victoria Libertas Pesaro). ...
) * Federico Lopez *
Ramón Rivas Juan Ramón Rivas Contreras (born March 16, 1966
basketball-reference.com) is a Puerto Rican retired professional ...
*
Jerome Mincy Jerome Alfred Mincy Clark (born November 10, 1964) is a Puerto Rican former professional basketball player who was born to Shelly and Willie Mincy at Ramey Air Force Base in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico on November 10, 1964. He played in the NCAA with ...
* Angelo Cruz * Felix Rivera * Edgar de Leon * Wesley Correa * Jose Sosa * Orlando Febres * Frankie Torruellas * Mario Morales * Francisco de Leon (Coach: Angel Cancel) * 4.
Muggsy Bogues Tyrone Curtis "Muggsy" Bogues (born January 9, 1965) is a former American basketball player. The shortest player ever to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Bogues played point guard for four teams during his 14-season caree ...
* 5.
Tommy Amaker Harold Tommy Amaker Jr. (; born June 6, 1965) is an American college basketball coach and the head coach of the Harvard University men's basketball team. He has also coached for the University of Michigan and Seton Hall University. He played po ...
* 6. Steve Kerr * 7.
Kenny Smith Kenneth Smith (born March 8, 1965), nicknamed "the Jet", is an American sports commentator and former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played in the NBA from 1987 to 1997 as a member of the Sacrame ...
* 8.
Sean Elliott Sean Michael Elliott (born February 2, 1968) is an American former professional basketball player who starred at small forward in both the college and professional ranks. He attended the University of Arizona, where he had a standout career a ...
* 9.
Derrick McKey Derrick Wayne McKey (born October 10, 1966) is an American former basketball player who played most of his National Basketball Association (NBA) career at the small forward and the power forward positions. Early life and college career McKey a ...
* 10.
Rony Seikaly Rony is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Ronielson da Silva Barbosa, Brazilian footballer better known as Rony *Rony Ahonen (born 1987), Finnish ice hockey defenceman * Rony Bakale (born 1987), Olympic swimmer from the Repub ...
* 11.
David Robinson David Maurice Robinson (born August 6, 1965) is an American former professional basketball player who played for the San Antonio Spurs in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1989 to 2003, and minority owner of the Spurs. Nicknamed ...
* 12.
Tom Hammonds Tom Edward Hammonds (born March 27, 1967) is an American former professional basketball player and National Hot Rod Association drag racer. He was born in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and attended Crestview High School in Crestview, Florida. Ha ...
* 13.
Brian Shaw Brian Keith Shaw (born March 22, 1966) is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He could play both guard positions, but wa ...
* 14.
Armen Gilliam Armen Louis Gilliam (born Armon Louis Gilliam; May 28, 1964 – July 5, 2011) was an American professional basketball player who played 13 years in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1987 to 2000. He also played one season for the Pi ...
* 15. Charles Smith * (Coach:
Lute Olson Robert Luther "Lute" Olson (September 22, 1934 – August 27, 2020) was an American basketball coach, who was inducted into both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. He was the head c ...
) * Gunther Behnke *
Chris Welp Christian Ansgar Welp (January 2, 1964 – March 1, 2015) was a German professional basketball player. During his playing career, he was a , center. He played three seasons in the NBA. He was the MVP of the 1993 EuroBasket. College career We ...
* Michael Koch * Hansi Gnad * Ralf Risse * Armin Andres * Jan Villwock * Rainer Greunke * Holger Arpe * Armin Sowa * Lutz Wadehn * Burkhard Schröder * (Coach:
Ralph Klein Ralph Philip Klein (November 1, 1942 – March 29, 2013) was a Canadian politician and journalist who served as the 12th premier of Alberta and leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta from 1992 until his retirement in 20 ...
)


Group D

* 4. Esteban Camisassa * 5.
Héctor Campana Héctor Oscar "Pichi" Campana Marcomini (born November 10, 1964) is an Argentine former basketball player and former vice-governor of his native Córdoba Province, for the Justicialist Party from 2007 to 2011. At club level, Campana won 7 time ...
* 6. Diego Maggi * 7.
Hernán Montenegro Hernán Abel Montenegro (born August 8, 1966) is an Argentine former basketball player. He is considered one of the best Latin America centers ever by journalists and colleagues. Montenegro was also a very charismatic player, nicknamed "El Loco" ...
* 8. Carlos Romano * 9.
Marcelo Milanesio Marcelo Gustavo Milanesio (born February 11, 1965 in Hernando, Córdoba) is an Argentine former professional basketball player. A significant figure in Argentine basketball, he defended Argentina for 2 titles, and Atenas for 14 club titles. He ...
* 10. Sergio Aispurúa * 11.
Miguel Cortijo Miguel Alberto Cortijo (born August 22, 1958 in La Banda, Santiago del Estero) is a retired Argentine basketball player. He spent his mostly career at Ferro Carril Oeste, the club where he won 4 local titles. Cortijo is considered one of the bes ...
* 12. Sebastián Uranga * 13. Gabriel Milovich * 14. Luis Oroño * 15. Fernando Borcel * (Coach:
Flor Meléndez Flor Meléndez Montañez (born January 12, 1947) is a Puerto Rican retired basketball player and current coach. He is a former head coach of Puerto Rico’s men’s national basketball team, Argentina men's national basketball team, and Panama ...
) * Gerry Besselink * John Hatch *
Gordon Herbert Gordon Walter Herbert (born February 16, 1959) is a Canadian-Finnish professional basketball coach and a retired professional basketball player. He is the head coach of the Germany men's national basketball team, Germany national team. Playing car ...
*
Gerald Kazanowski Gerald Francis Kazanowski (born October 12, 1960) is a former professional and Canadian Olympic basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court ...
* Howard Kelsey * Barry Mungar * Dan Meagher * Eli Pasquale * Tony Simms *
Jay Triano A jay is a member of a number of species of medium-sized, usually colorful and noisy, passerine birds in the Crow family, Corvidae. The evolutionary relationships between the jays and the magpies are rather complex. For example, the Eurasian m ...
* David Turcotte *
Greg Wiltjer Gregory Hilko Wiltjer (born November 26, 1960) is a Canadian former professional basketball player. At a height of six feet, eleven inches (2.11 m) tall, he played at the centre position. He played in several important tournaments for the senior ...
* (Coach:
Jack Donahue John Donahue (c. 1806 – 1 September 1830), also spelled Donohoe, and known as Jack Donahue and Bold Jack Donahue, was an Irish-born bushranger in Australia between 1825 and 1830. He became part of the notorious "Wild Colonial Boys". Early l ...
) *
Rik Smits Rik Smits (born 23 August 1966), nicknamed "the Dunking Dutchman" is a Dutch former professional basketball player who spent his entire career with the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The center was drafted by the ...
* Jelle Esveldt * Ronald Schilp * Cock van de Lagemaat * Raymond Bottse * Rene Ebeltjes * Chris van Dinten * Hans Heijdeman * Erik Griekspoor * Emill Hagens * Marco de Waard * Peter van Noord * (Coach:
Ruud Harrewijn Ruud and Rud are surnames of Norwegian origin. Both are also Norwegian place names of numerous farmsteads named Rud or Ruud from Old Norse ''ruð'' meaning clearing. Ruud is also a Dutch masculine given name meaning "famous wolf" although it is also ...
) * Gilbert Gordon * Peter Pokai * Stan Hill * Neil Stephens * Dave Edmonds * Ian Webb * Dave Mason * Tony Smith * Colin Crampton * Frank Mulvihill * Glen Denham * John Rademakers * (Coach: Robert Bishop)


References


1986 FIBA World Championship at basket-stats.info


External links

* * {{FIBA Basketball World Cup FIBA Basketball World Cup squads 1986 FIBA World Championship