1998 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads
# 1998 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship squads

This article shows the rosters of all participating teams at the 1998 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship in Japan.

## Italy

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 1 | Andrea Gardini |
| 2 | Marco Meoni |
| 3 | Pasquale Gravina |
| 4 | Ferdinando De Giorgi |
| 5 | Alessandro Fei |
| 6 | Samuele Papi |
| 7 | Andrea Sartoretti |
| 8 | Marco Bracci |
| 10 | Simone Rosalba |
| 12 | Mirko Corsano |
| 13 | Andrea Giani |
| 15 | Michele Pasinato |

* Coach: Bebeto de Freitas

## Russia

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 1 | Stanislav Dineikine |
| 2 | Vadim Khamoutskikh |
| 4 | Rouslan Olikhver |
| 6 | Igor Choulepov |
| 7 | Alexei Kazakov |
| 8 | Dmitri Fomine |
| 9 | Serguei Tetiukhine |
| 10 | Roman Iakovlev |
| 11 | Konstantin Ushakov |
| 14 | Dimitri Jeltoukha |
| 17 | Alexandre Berezine |
| 18 | Andrei Voronkov |

* Coach: Guennadi Chipouline

## United States

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 1 | Lloy Ball |
| 2 | Greg Romano |
| 3 | Mike Lambert |
| 4 | Phillip Eatherton |
| 5 | Erik Sullivan |
| 6 | Tom Sorensenen |
| 10 | Chip McCaw |
| 11 | Chris Harger |
| 12 | Tom Hoff |
| 13 | Jeff Nygaard |
| 14 | Kevin Barnett |
| 16 | Dan Landry |

* Coach: Douglas Beal

## South Korea

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 1 | Shin Jin-Sik |
| 2 | Choi Tae-Woong |
| 3 | Kim Se-Jin |
| 4 | Lee Ho |
| 6 | Bang Ji-Sub |
| 7 | Kim Sang-Woo |
| 11 | Lee Kyung-Soo |
| 12 | Park Hee-Sang |
| 14 | Park Sun-Chool |
| 15 | Kim Sung-Chae |
| 17 | Han Hee-Suk |
| 18 | Chang Byung-Chul |

* Coach: Jin Jun-Taik

## Poland

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 1 | Krzysztof Ignaczak |
| 2 | Andrzej Stelmach |
| 3 | Damian Dacewicz |
| 4 | Marcin Nowak |
| 5 | Piotr Gruszka |
| 7 | Michal Chadala |
| 8 | Dawid Murek |
| 10 | Pawel Papke |
| 11 | Marcin Prus |
| 13 | Sebastian Swiderski |
| 14 | Pawel Zagumny |
| 16 | Adam Nowik |

* Coach: Mazur Ireneusz

## Algeria

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 1 | Adel Chabi |
| 2 | Fethi Berrairia |
| 3 | Lies Tizi Oualou |
| 6 | Hamida Faycal Bencharif |
| 7 | Nassim Hedroug |
| 9 | Samir Ferad |
| 10 | Billel Medah |
| 12 | Mohamed Adel Sennoun |
| 13 | Faycal Gharzouli |
| 14 | Hichem Guemmadi |
| 15 | Farid Oukali |
| 18 | Oualid Guemmadi |

* Coach: Mohand Said Kaci

## Yugoslavia

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 1 | Djordje Djuric |
| 3 | Vladimir Batez |
| 4 | Zeljko Tanaskovic |
| 6 | Slobodan Boskan |
| 7 | Dula Mester |
| 9 | Nikola Grbic |
| 10 | Vladimir Grbic |
| 12 | Andrija Geric |
| 13 | Goran Vujevic |
| 14 | Ivan Miljkovic |
| 15 | Veljko Petkovic |
| 18 | Igor Vusurovic |

* Coach: Zoran Gajic

## Netherlands

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 1 | Misha Latuhinin |
| 2 | Frank Denkers |
| 3 | Sander Olsthoorn |
| 4 | Reinder Nummerdor |
| 5 | Guido Gortzen |
| 6 | Richard Schuil |
| 7 | Mike van de Goor |
| 9 | Bas van de Goor |
| 10 | Mark Broere |
| 14 | Marko Klok |
| 15 | Albert Cristina |
| 16 | Justin Sombroek |

* Coach: Toon Gerbrands

## Ukraine

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 2 | Igor Popov |
| 4 | Volodymyr Hudima |
| 5 | Sergiy Peresunchak |
| 6 | Andriy Sydorenko |
| 7 | Yuriy Filippov |
| 8 | Igor Zaytsev |
| 9 | Oleksiy Gatin |
| 10 | Oleg Mushenko |
| 11 | Serhiy Shchvinskyy |
| 12 | Oleksandr Shadchin |
| 13 | Viktor Loshakov |
| 14 | Volodymyr Zhula |

* Coach: Leonid Likhno

## Greece

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 1 | Konstantinos Christofidelis |
| 2 | Marios Giourdas |
| 3 | Theodoros Chatziantoniou |
| 5 | Ilias Grammatikopoulos |
| 6 | Vasileios Kournetas |
| 9 | Konstantinos Angelidis |
| 10 | Antonios Tsakiropoulos |
| 13 | Michail Christoforidis |
| 14 | Athanasios Michalopoulos |
| 15 | Theodoros Bozidis |
| 16 | Antonios Kovatsef |
| 17 | Vasileios Mitroudis |

* Coach: Stellios Kazazis

## Australia

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 1 | Daniel Howard |
| 3 | Nicholas Mortimer |
| 4 | Benjamin Hardy |
| 6 | Nathan Jakavicius |
| 7 | David Waite |
| 8 | Russel Wentworth |
| 9 | Daniel Ronan |
| 10 | Spiros Marazios |
| 11 | Scott Newcomb |
| 12 | David Beard |
| 15 | Hidde van Beest |
| 16 | Gaberiel Mauerhofer |

* Coach: Stelio de Recco

## Czech Republic

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 1 | Martin Hroch |
| 2 | Pavel Ceznícek |
| 4 | Milan Hadrava |
| 5 | Ludek Cernoušek |
| 6 | Petr Karabec |
| 7 | Milan Bican |
| 9 | Stanislav Pochop |
| 10 | Jirí Novák |
| 11 | Petr Konecný |
| 12 | Petr Galis |
| 13 | Petr Pešl |
| 16 | Přemysl Kubala |

* Coach: Miroslav Nekola

## Cuba

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 3 | Rodolfo Sanchez Sanchez |
| 5 | Alexis Argilagos Segura |
| 7 | Angel Dennis Diaz |
| 8 | Pavel Pimenta Allen |
| 9 | Raul Diago Izquierdo |
| 10 | Tomas Aldazabal Manzano |
| 11 | Osbaldo Hernandez Chambell |
| 12 | Ramon Gato Moya |
| 13 | Alain Roca Borrero |
| 14 | Ihosvany Hernandez Rivera |
| 16 | Yosenki Garcia Diaz |
| 18 | Gilman Cao Herrera |

* Coach: Juan Diaz Marino

## Bulgaria

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 1 | Evgeni Ivanov |
| 2 | Lyudmil Naydenov |
| 4 | Martin Stoev |
| 6 | Ivaylo Stefanov |
| 7 | Nikolay Jeliazkov |
| 8 | Hristo Tsvetanov |
| 9 | Vesselin Dimchev |
| 10 | Petar Uzunov |
| 12 | Nikolay Ivanov |
| 13 | Ivaylo Gavrilov |
| 15 | Krassimir Stefanov |
| 17 | Plamen Konstantinov |

* Coach: Gueorgui Vasilev

## Argentina

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 1 | Marcos Milinkovic |
| 2 | Jorge Elgueta |
| 4 | Alejandro Spajic |
| 5 | Guillermo Quaini |
| 6 | Javier Weber |
| 7 | Fernando Borrero |
| 9 | Oscar Vizzari |
| 12 | Juan Carlos Cuminetti |
| 14 | Sebastián Firpo |
| 15 | Pablo Pereira |
| 17 | Marcelo Román |
| 18 | Juan Pablo Porello |

* Coach: Daniel Castellani

## China

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 3 | Liang Zheng |
| 5 | Qi Chen |
| 6 | Weizhong Lu |
| 7 | Liming Zhang |
| 8 | Jianan Zhou |
| 9 | Fang Chen |
| 11 | Hebing Wang |
| 12 | Xiang Zhang |
| 13 | Yong Zhao |
| 14 | An Jiajie |
| 16 | Gang Zhu |
| 18 | Tieming Li |

* Coach: Jiawei Wang

## Egypt

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 1 | Hamdi Awad |
| 2 | Ashraf Abou Elhassan |
| 3 | Ahmed Alhefnawy |
| 4 | Nehad Shehata |
| 6 | Mohamed Abdelrahman |
| 7 | Maged Mostafa |
| 11 | Mohamed Ibrahim |
| 12 | Ibrahim Rashwan |
| 15 | Mahmoud Elkify |
| 16 | Ibrahim Youssef |
| 17 | Ayman Alnekery |
| 18 | Mahmoud Gomaa |

* Coach: Ibrahim Fakhreldin

## Iran

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 1 | Mohammad Hossein Nejati |
| 2 | Ali Naghdi |
| 3 | Saeid Rezaei |
| 5 | Peyman Akbari |
| 6 | Mohammad Omdeh-Ghiasi |
| 7 | Amir Hossein Monazzami |
| 10 | Behnam Mahmoudi |
| 13 | Hossein Maadani |
| 15 | Ahmad Masajedi |
| 16 | Firouz Tabeshnejad |
| 17 | Mohammad Torkashvand |

* Coach: Fumihiko Matsumoto

## Brazil

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 2 | Ricardo Micieli |
| 3 | Andre Heller |
| 4 | Kid |
| 6 | Mauricio |
| 7 | Giba |
| 8 | Douglas |
| 9 | Joel dos Santos |
| 10 | Max |
| 12 | Nalbert (C) |
| 13 | Gustavo |
| 14 | Alex Lenz |
| 17 | Ricardo |

* Coach: Radames Lattari Filho

## Spain

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 1 | Rafael Pascual |
| 3 | Venancio Costa |
| 6 | Juan Carlos Vega |
| 7 | Miguel Angel Falasca |
| 8 | Juan Carlos Robles |
| 9 | Juan Colom |
| 10 | Cosme Prenafeta |
| 11 | Carlos Carreno |
| 13 | Jesus Garrido |
| 14 | Jose Luis Molto |
| 15 | Ernesto Rodriguez |
| 17 | Enrique de la Fuente |

* Coach: Vincenzo Di Pinto

## Canada

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 2 | Andrew Zurawsky |
| 3 | Keith Sanheim |
| 4 | Kent Greves |
| 7 | Paul Duerden |
| 8 | Scott Koskie |
| 9 | Junior Donald |
| 11 | Jeff Chung |
| 12 | Ross Ballard |
| 14 | Murray Grapentine |
| 15 | Jason Haldane |
| 16 | Terry Martin |
| 17 | David Kantor |

* Coach: Garth Pischke

## Japan

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 1 | Takashi Narita |
| 2 | Yoichi Kato |
| 3 | Yuichi Nakagaichi |
| 5 | Masayoshi Manabe |
| 6 | Koichi Nishimura |
| 7 | Kentaro Asahi |
| 8 | Masaji Ogino |
| 9 | Nobutaka Hirano |
| 10 | Katsuyuki Minami |
| 13 | Minoru Takeuchi |
| 14 | Hideyuki Otake |
| 16 | Norihiko Miyazaki |

* Coach: Futoshi Teramawari

## Turkey

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 1 | Cengizhan Kartaltepe |
| 2 | Kenan Bengu |
| 3 | Mehmet Yilmaz |
| 4 | Mehmet Sahin |
| 6 | Baris Ozdemir |
| 7 | Gursel Yesiltas |
| 8 | Hakan Akisik |
| 9 | Ufuk Fuat Bileke |
| 10 | Gokhan Oner |
| 11 | Aykut Lale |
| 14 | Osman Babagiray |
| 15 | Hakan Fertelli |

* Coach: Gilberto Herrera

## Thailand

| # | Name |
| - | - |
| 1 | Lawrach Tontongkum |
| 2 | Yutthapol Jarhenrut |
| 3 | Terdsak Sungworakan |
| 4 | Anusorn Charunsiriwongtana |
| 5 | Panya Makhumleg |
| 6 | Attsphon Khemdaeng |
| 9 | Aphisak Rakchartyingcheep |
| 10 | Yuttana Kiewpekar |
| 11 | Yuttachai Ratanawongpak |
| 12 | Waroot Wisadsing |
| 16 | Khomkroch Phayooncharn |
| 17 | Supachai Jitjumroon |

* Coach: Kun Xing Wu
