The final 23 players for the 32 squads competing in South Africa’s 2010 Fifa World Cup were announced after the deadline for confirmed teams passed on 1 June. Get the low-down on the 736 footballers who will be battling it out for the sport’s biggest trophy from 11 June to 11 July.
GROUP F
Coach: Marcello Lippi | |||||
# | Position | Player | Date of Birth | Caps | Club |
1 | Goalkeeper | Gianluigi Buffon | 28 January 1978 (aged 32) | 100 | Juventus |
2 | Goalkeeper | Federico Marchetti | 7 February 1983 (aged 27) | 4 | Cagliari |
3 | Goalkeeper | Morgan De Sanctis | 27 March 1977 (aged 33) | 3 | Napoli |
4 | Defender | Salvatore Bocchetti | 30 November 1986 (aged 23) | 3 | Genoa |
5 | Defender | Leonardo Bonucci | 1 May 1987 (aged 23) | 1 | Bari |
6 | Defender | Fabio Cannavaro (captain) | 13 September 1973 (aged 36) | 132 | Juventus |
7 | Defender | Giorgio Chiellini | 14 August 1984 (aged 25) | 28 | Juventus |
8 | Defender | Domenico Criscito | 30 December 1986 (aged 23) | 5 | Genoa |
9 | Defender | Christian Maggio | 11 February 1982 (aged 28) | 3 | Napoli |
10 | Defender | Gianluca Zambrotta | 19 February 1977 (aged 33) | 92 | Milan |
11 | Midfielder | Mauro Camoranesi | 4 October 1976 (aged 33) | 53 | Juventus |
12 | Midfielder | Daniele De Rossi | 24 July 1983 (aged 26) | 52 | Roma |
13 | Midfielder | Gennaro Gattuso | 9 January 1978 (aged 32) | 71 | Milan |
14 | Midfielder | Claudio Marchisio | 19 January 1986 (aged 24) | 3 | Juventus |
15 | Midfielder | Riccardo Montolivo | 18 January 1985 (aged 25) | 12 | Fiorentina |
16 | Midfielder | Angelo Palombo | 25 September 1981 (aged 28) | 15 | Sampdoria |
17 | Midfielder | Simone Pepe | 30 August 1983 (aged 26) | 13 | Udinese |
18 | Midfielder | Andrea Pirlo | 19 May 1979 (aged 31) | 65 | Milan |
19 | Forward | Antonio Di Natale | 13 February 1979 (aged 31) | 31 | Udinese |
20 | Forward | Alberto Gilardino | 5 July 1982 (aged 27) | 39 | Fiorentina |
21 | Forward | Vincenzo Iaquinta | 21 November 1979 (aged 30) | 35 | Juventus |
22 | Forward | Giampaolo Pazzini | 2 August 1984 (aged 25) | 6 | Sampdoria |
23 | Forward | Fabio Quagliarella | 31 January 1983 (aged 27) | 18 | Napoli |
Coach: Gerardo Martino | |||||
# | Position | Player | Date of Birth | Caps | Club |
1 | Goalkeeper | Justo Villar | 30 June 1977 (aged 32) | 71 | Real Valladolid |
2 | Goalkeeper | Aldo Bobadilla | 20 April 1976 (aged 34) | 18 | Independiente Medellín |
3 | Goalkeeper | Diego Barreto | 16 July 1981 (aged 28) | 2 | Cerro Porteño |
4 | Defender | Denis Caniza (captain) | 29 August 1974 (aged 35) | 95 | León |
5 | Defender | Paulo da Silva | 1 February 1980 (aged 30) | 67 | Sunderland |
6 | Defender | Carlos Bonet | 2 October 1977 (aged 32) | 60 | Olimpia |
7 | Defender | Julio César Cáceres | 5 October 1979 (aged 30) | 59 | Atlético Mineiro |
8 | Defender | Darío Verón | 26 June 1979 (aged 30) | 27 | UNAM |
9 | Defender | Claudio Morel Rodríguez | 2 February 1978 (aged 32) | 25 | Boca Juniors |
10 | Defender | Aureliano Torres | 16 June 1982 (aged 27) | 25 | San Lorenzo |
11 | Defender | Antolín Alcaraz | 30 July 1982 (aged 27) | 5 | Club Brugge |
12 | Midfielder | Édgar Barreto | 15 July 1984 (aged 25) | 47 | Atalanta |
13 | Midfielder | Cristian Riveros | 16 October 1982 (aged 27) | 45 | Cruz Azul |
14 | Midfielder | Enrique Vera | 10 March 1979 (aged 31) | 25 | LDU Quito |
15 | Midfielder | Víctor Cáceres | 25 March 1985 (aged 25) | 25 | Libertad |
16 | Midfielder | Jonathan Santana | 19 October 1981 (aged 28) | 21 | Wolfsburg |
17 | Midfielder | Néstor Ortigoza | 7 October 1984 (aged 25) | 3 | Argentinos Juniors |
18 | Forward | Roque Santa Cruz | 16 August 1981 (aged 28) | 66 | Manchester City |
19 | Forward | Nelson Valdez | 28 November 1983 (aged 26) | 38 | Borussia Dortmund |
20 | Forward | Oscar Cardozo | 20 May 1983 (aged 27) | 29 | Benfica |
21 | Forward | Édgar Benítez | 8 November 1987 (aged 22) | 12 | Pachuca |
22 | Forward | Rodolfo Gamarra | 10 December 1988 (aged 21) | 2 | Libertad |
23 | Forward | Lucas Barrios | 13 November 1984 (aged 25) | 0 | Borussia Dortmund |
Coach: Ricki Herbert | ||||||
# | Position | Player | Date of Birth | Caps | Club | |
1 | Goalkeeper | Mark Paston | 13 December 1976 (age 33) | 22 | Wellington Phoenix | |
2 | Defender | Ben Sigmund | 3 February 1981 (age 29) | 14 | Wellington Phoenix | |
3 | Defender | Tony Lochhead | 12 January 1982 (age 28) | 28 | Wellington Phoenix | |
4 | Defender | Winston Reid | 3 July 1988 (age 21) | 2 | Midtjylland | |
5 | Defender | Ivan Vicelich | 3 September 1976 (age 33) | 66 | Auckland City | |
6 | Defender | Ryan Nelsen (captain) | 18 October 1977 (age 32) | 40 | Blackburn Rovers | |
7 | Midfielder | Simon Elliott | 10 June 1974 (age 35) | 62 | Unattached | |
8 | Midfielder | Tim Brown | 6 March 1981 (age 29) | 25 | Wellington Phoenix | |
9 | Forward | Shane Smeltz | 29 September 1981 (age 28) | 29 | Gold Coast United | |
10 | Forward | Chris Killen | 8 October 1981 (age 28) | 31 | Middlesbrough | |
11 | Midfielder | Leo Bertos | 20 December 1981 (age 28) | 33 | Wellington Phoenix | |
12 | Goalkeeper | Glen Moss | 19 January 1983 (age 27) | 15 | Melbourne Victory | |
13 | Midfielder | Andy Barron | 24 December 1980 (age 29) | 11 | Team Wellington | |
14 | Forward | Rory Fallon | 20 March 1982 (age 28) | 6 | Plymouth Argyle | |
15 | Midfielder | Michael McGlinchey | 7 January 1987 (age 23) | 5 | Motherwell | |
16 | Midfielder | Aaron Clapham | 1 January 1987 (age 23) | 0 | Canterbury United | |
17 | Midfielder | David Mulligan | 24 March 1982 (age 28) | 25 | Unattached | |
18 | Defender | Andrew Boyens | 18 September 1983 (age 26) | 15 | New York Red Bulls | |
19 | Defender | Tommy Smith | 31 March 1990 (age 20) | 3 | Ipswich Town | |
20 | Forward | Chris Wood | 7 December 1991 (age 18) | 8 | West Bromwich Albion | |
21 | Midfielder | Jeremy Christie | 22 May 1983 (age 27) | 21 | Tampa Bay | |
22 | Midfielder | Jeremy Brockie | 7 October 1987 (age 22) | 17 | Newcastle Jets | |
23 | Goalkeeper | James Bannatyne | 30 June 1975 (age 34) | 3 | Team Wellington | |
Coach: Vladimír Weiss | |||||
# | Position | Player | Date of Birth | Caps | Club |
1 | Goalkeeper | Ján Mucha | 5 December 1982 (aged 27) | 14 | Legia Warszawa |
2 | Goalkeeper | Dušan Kuciak | 21 May 1985 (aged 25) | 2 | FC Vaslui |
3 | Goalkeeper | Dušan Perniš | 28 November 1984 (aged 25) | 1 | Dundee United |
4 | Defender | Radoslav Zabavník | 16 September 1980 (aged 29) | 42 | Mainz |
5 | Defender | Marek Čech | 26 January 1983 (aged 27) | 38 | West Bromwich Albion |
6 | Defender | Martin Petráš | 2 November 1979 (aged 30) | 38 | Cesena |
7 | Defender | Martin Škrtel | 15 December 1984 (aged 25) | 37 | Liverpool |
8 | Defender | Ján Ďurica | 10 December 1981 (aged 28) | 35 | Hannover 96 |
9 | Defender | Peter Pekarík | 30 October 1986 (aged 23) | 19 | Wolfsburg |
10 | Defender | Kornel Saláta | 4 January 1985 (aged 25) | 3 | Slovan Bratislava |
11 | Midfielder | Marek Hamšík (captain) | 27 July 1987 (aged 22) | 30 | Napoli |
12 | Midfielder | Stanislav Šesták | 16 December 1982 (aged 27) | 29 | Bochum |
13 | Midfielder | Marek Sapara | 31 July 1982 (aged 27) | 24 | Ankaragücü |
14 | Midfielder | Ján Kozák | 22 April 1980 (aged 30) | 22 | Timişoara |
15 | Midfielder | Zdeno Štrba | 9 June 1976 (aged 34) | 20 | Skoda Xanthi |
16 | Midfielder | Miroslav Stoch | 19 October 1989 (aged 20) | 10 | Twente |
17 | Midfielder | Kamil Kopúnek | 18 May 1984 (aged 26) | 7 | Spartak Trnava |
18 | Midfielder | Vladimír Weiss | 30 November 1989 (aged 20) | 7 | Bolton Wanderers |
19 | Midfielder | Juraj Kucka | 26 February 1987 (aged 23) | 5 | Sparta Prague |
20 | Forward | Róbert Vittek | 1 April 1982 (aged 28) | 69 | Ankaragücü |
21 | Forward | Filip Hološko | 17 January 1984 (aged 26) | 37 | Beşiktaş |
22 | Forward | Martin Jakubko | 26 February 1980 (aged 30) | 21 | Saturn Moscow |
23 | Forward | Erik Jendrišek | 26 October 1986 (aged 23) | 13 | Kaiserslautern |
