2006 FIBA World Championship Squads
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The 2006 FIBA World Championship squads were the squads of the 2006 FIBA World Championship. 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, 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


Venezuela

Head Coach: Néstor Salazar


Group B


Angola

Head coach: Alberto de Carvalho


Germany

Head coach: Dirk Bauermann


Japan

Head coach: Željko Pavličević


New Zealand

Head coach: Tab Baldwin NB: Ben Hill was put on standby when Mark Dickel tested positive for
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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


Group C


Australia

Head coach: Brian Goorjian


Brazil

Head coach: Lula Ferreira


Greece

Head coach: Panagiotis Giannakis


Lithuania

Head coach: Antanas Sireika


Qatar

Head Coach: Joseph Stiebing


Turkey

Head coach: Bogdan Tanjević


Group D


China

Head coach: Jonas 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


Puerto Rico

Head coach: Julio Toro


Senegal

Head coach: Moustapha Gaye


Slovenia

Head coach: Aleš Pipan


United States

Head coach:
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