1996 FIFA Futsal World Championship squads

This article lists the confirmed national futsal squads for the 1996 FIFA Futsal World Championship tournament held in Spain, between 24 November and 8 December 1996.

Group A

 Spain

Head coach: Javier Lozano Cid

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Jesús Clavería	(1968-01-04)4 January 1968 (aged 28)			Interviú Boomerang
2	2DF	Julio García	(1972-05-27)27 May 1972 (aged 24)			Interviú Boomerang
3	2DF	Santi Herrero	(1971-03-27)27 March 1971 (aged 25)
4	2DF	Fran Torres	(1969-08-12)12 August 1969 (aged 27)
5	3MF	Vicentín	(1969-06-25)25 June 1969 (aged 27)
6	2DF	Joan Linares	(1975-02-24)24 February 1975 (aged 21)
7	3MF	Pato	(1967-03-06)6 March 1967 (aged 29)
8	3MF	Javier Lorente	(1970-04-21)21 April 1970 (aged 26)
9	4FW	Javi Sánchez	(1971-01-15)15 January 1971 (aged 25)
10	3MF	Javi Rodríguez	(1974-03-26)26 March 1974 (aged 22)
11	4FW	Arnaldo Ferreira	(1968-08-16)16 August 1968 (aged 28)
12	1GK	Juanjo	(1972-08-24)24 August 1972 (aged 24)

 Ukraine

Head coach: Gennadiy Lisenchuk

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Oleg Zozulya	5 May 1965 (age 31)
2	2DF	Iouri Oussakovskii	10 October 1968 (age 28)
3	2DF	Serhiy Oussakovskii	10 October 1968 (age 28)
4	3MF	Oleg Bezugly	14 January 1969 (age 27)
5	2DF	Taras Voniarkha	15 June 1971 (age 25)
6	3MF	Vitaliy Brunko	24 October 1976 (age 20)
7	4FW	Georgii Melnikov	10 March 1975 (age 21)
8	4FW	Olexandr Kosenko	18 January 1970 (age 26)
9	3MF	Oleksandre Moskaliuk	9 February 1970 (age 26)
10	4FW	Volodymyr Obihod	2 February 1967 (age 29)
11	3MF	Igor Moskvychov	6 November 1971 (age 25)
12	1GK	Alexandre Kondratenko	2 September 1974 (age 22)

 Egypt

Head coach: Farouk El Sayed

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Yasser Mohamed	7 April 1973 (age 23)
2	3MF	Hashim El Desuoky	23 March 1975 (age 21)
3	3MF	Mohamed Sayed Ibrahim	2 August 1970 (age 26)
4	2DF	Remah Abou Zeid	2 December 1976 (age 19)
5	2DF	Tamer Ismail	19 October 1968 (age 28)
6	2DF	Mustafa Abdelatif	21 September 1975 (age 21)
7	4FW	Mowafak Ibrahim	16 February 1960 (age 36)
8	3MF	Hussin Hassan	15 October 1969 (age 27)
9	3MF	Salama Ahmed	3 January 1971 (age 25)
10	3MF	Badr Mahmoud	15 May 1959 (age 37)
11	4FW	Mohamed Saad Mohamed	15 May 1959 (age 37)
12	1GK	Abdel Hamid Hassan	27 March 1961 (age 35)

 Australia

Head coach: James Roberts

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Adam Confoy	21 June 1971 (age 25)
2	3MF	Rob Perinovic	9 July 1974 (age 22)
3	2DF	Elliot Zwangobani	23 October 1973 (age 23)
4	3MF	Fortunato Carvalho	9 June 1968 (age 28)
5	2DF	Martin Calvert	13 November 1975 (age 21)
6	2DF	Paul Roberts	19 December 1973 (age 22)
7	4FW	Simon Aitchison	31 August 1972 (age 24)
8	4FW	Vince Nastoski	12 March 1965 (age 31)
9	3MF	Jamie Amendolia	16 February 1977 (age 19)
10	3MF	Jason Wells	27 March 1971 (age 25)
11	4FW	Zlatko Momircevski	2 April 1971 (age 25)
12	1GK	Jorge Suarez	10 August 1976 (age 20)

Group B

 Netherlands

Head coach: Ron Groenewoud

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1		Michel Wentzel	28 June 1966 (age 30)
2		Anton Biloro	19 August 1969 (age 27)
3		Johnny Keur	16 February 1967 (age 29)
4		Hanky Leatemia	13 July 1966 (age 30)
5		Hjalmar Hoekema	16 November 1965 (age 31)
6		Henny Lettinck	5 January 1967 (age 29)
7		Pascal Langenhuijsen	4 June 1971 (age 25)
8		Moes Talha	1 December 1970 (age 25)
9		Edwin Grunholz	15 August 1969 (age 27)
10		Johannes Ludwig	9 May 1962 (age 34)
11		Johannes de Bever	7 April 1965 (age 31)
12		Tom Sier	17 November 1973 (age 23)

 Russia

Head coach: Semen ANDREEV

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1		Ilya SAMOKHIN	10 August 1970 (age 26)
2		Konstantin Eremenko	5 August 1970 (age 26)
3		Alexei OUSKOV	12 December 1962 (age 33)
4		Alexander VERIZHNIKOV	16 July 1968 (age 28)
5		Temur ALEKBEROV	22 September 1969 (age 27)
6		Dmitry CHUGUNOV	9 June 1968 (age 28)
7		Vadim IACHINE	27 June 1971 (age 25)
8		Dmitri GORINE	9 May 1972 (age 24)
9		Alexey KISSELEV	1 October 1969 (age 27)
10		Arkadiy BELYI	31 May 1973 (age 23)
11		Mikhail KOCHTCHEEV	9 April 1967 (age 29)
12		Alexei EVTEEV	4 August 1975 (age 21)

 Argentina

Head coach: Fernando LARRANAGA

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1		Javier GUISANDE	15 December 1975 (age 20)
2		Leandro PLANAS	28 November 1975 (age 20)
3		Sebastian PACHECO	10 January 1974 (age 22)
4		Diego CASTANARES	29 April 1975 (age 21)
5		Marcelo SCHEAVE	17 December 1969 (age 26)
6		Daniel DICHIARO	14 March 1969 (age 27)
7		Pablo PARILLA	24 July 1973 (age 23)
8		Carlos SANCHEZ	31 January 1975 (age 21)
9		Rodrigo PETILLO	19 May 1977 (age 19)
10		Mariano TALLAFERRO	19 December 1974 (age 21)
11		Leonardo MAGARELLI	21 August 1974 (age 22)
12		Leonardo RUIZ	24 September 1970 (age 26)

 China

Head coach: GENBAO Xu

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1		CAI Jian Lin	23 July 1965 (age 31
2		WU Bing	7 February 1968 (age 28)
3		CHENG Yaodong	16 June 1967 (age 29)
4		ZHU Qi	2 June 1972 (age 24)
5		MAO Yijun	28 December 1970 (age 25)
6		SHEN Si	1 May 1973 (age 23)
7		GU Zhao Nian	18 December 1974 (age 21)
8		ZHANG Yong	26 January 1975 (age 21)
9		QI Hong	3 June 1976 (age 20)
10		LIU Jun	25 January 1970 (age 26)
11		ZHANG Yi	4 January 1973 (age 23)
12		WANG Hui	23 September 1978 (age 18)

Group C

 Italy

Head coach: Carlo FACCHIN

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1		Francesco FRADELLA
2		Massimo RISCINO
3		Salvatore ZAFFIRO
4		Ivano ROMA
5		Andrea BEARZI
6		Andrea FAMA
7		Massimo QUATTRINI
8		Alfredo ESPOSITO
9		Roberto MATRANGA
10		Massimiliano MANNINO
11		Gabriele CALECA
12		Francesco COPPOLA

 Uruguay

Head coach: Rolando MUNIZ

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1		Mauro ROIBAL
2		Jorge COLINA
3		Alvaro PINEIRO
4		Uriol NUNEZ
5		Diego IMPERIO
6		Pablo LAMANNA
7		PICO
8		Silvio RAPELA
9		Andres D ALESSANDRO
10		Claudio GUERRA
11		Daniel VARELA
12		Ariel DI PIERRO

 United States

Head coach: John KOWALSKI

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1		Victor Manuel NOGUEIRA
2		George FERNANDEZ
3		Oscar DRAGUICEVICH
4		Jon PARRY
5		Goran HUNJAK
6		Sean BOWERS
7		Jim GABARRA
8		Frank KLOPAS
9		Mark MOSER
10		Franklin McINTOSH
11		Dennis BROSE
12		Otto ORF

 Malaysia

Head coach: Vic Hermans

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1		Khairul Azman Mohamed
2		Mohd Raizuwah Idris
3		Zainal Abidin Hassan
4		Anuar Jusoh
5		Lim Seng Kong
6		Rosdee Sulong
7		Mohammad Nazri Yunus
8		Zami Mohd Noor
9		Dollah Salleh
10		Azman Adnan
11		Azrul Amri Burhan
12		Mudzar Mohamad

Group D

 Brazil

Head coach: Takão

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Serginho
2		Bagé
3		Márcio
4		Waginho
5	3MF	Manoel Tobias
6		Fininho
7		Sandrinho
8		Danilo
9		Clóvis
10		Chôco
11		Djacir
12	3MF	Vander

 Belgium

Head coach: Damien KNABBEN

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1		Geert BUVE
2		Youssef EL GUIR
3		Abdelhafid EL GUIR
4		Marcel CLAESEN
5		Pascal DELREE
6		Tim VERGAUWEN
7		Ivan HECHTERMANS
8		Bert MICHIELS
9		Pasquale COCCO
10		Benoit JANSSEN
11		Herman BEYERS
12		Philippe MARCHE

 Iran

Head coach:Reza Mohammadkazemi

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Ahmad Sajjadi				Bahman
2		Masoud Estili				Zob Ahan
3		Sadegh Varmazyar				n/a
4		Reza Zarkhanli				Entezam
5		Majid Saleh				PAS Tehran
6		Ali Javadi				Payam Moghavemat
7		Hossein Hosseini				Aboomoslem
8		Hashem Heidari				PAS Tehran
9		Hassan Arsalani				Sepidrood
10		Mohammad Mehranpour				Esteghlal
11		Mehdi Sepiddast				Shamoushak
12		Mohammad Ali Yahyavi				Esteghlal

 Cuba

Head coach: Clemente REINOSO

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1		Alain SOBRINO
2		Boris SANAME
3		Jose CAMEJO
4		Aliet MARTINEZ
5		Fredy HERRERA
6		Pillin GUERRA
7		Alexander MOSQUERA
8		Ernesto RODRIGUEZ
9		Camilo MENDOZA
10		Papi PORTAL
11		Vladimir IBANEZ
12		Dagmar GOMEZ

External links

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