# Water polo at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's team rosters

These are the rosters of all participating teams at the Men's water polo tournament at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships held between July 19–31 in Rome, Italy.

## United States

| No. | Name | Date of birth | L/R | Position |
| 1 | Merrill Moses | 13 August 1977 | R | GK |
| 2 | Peter Varellas | 2 October 1984 | L | D |
| 3 | Brian Alexander | 5 March 1983 | R | CB |
| 4 | Jeffrey Powers | 21 January 1980 | R | D |
| 5 | Adam Wright | 4 May 1977 | R | D |
| 6 | Justin Johnson | 12 September 1985 | R | CB |
| 7 | Layne Beaubien | 4 July 1976 | R | D |
| 8 | Anthony Azevedo | 21 November 1981 | R | D |
| 9 | Ryan Bailey | 28 August 1975 | R | CF |
| 10 | Timothy Hutten | 4 June 1985 | R | CB |
| 11 | Jesse Smith | 27 April 1983 | R | CB |
| 12 | James Krumpholz | 22 September 1987 | R | CF |
| 13 | Genai Kerr | 25 December 1976 | R | GK |

## Spain

| No. | Name | Date of birth | L/R | Position |
| 1 | Inaki Aguilar | 9 September 1983 | R | GK |
| 2 | Mario Garcia | 15 July 1983 | R | CB |
| 3 | David Martin | 2 January 1977 | R | D |
| 4 | Blai Mallarach | 21 August 1987 | L | D |
| 5 | Guillermo Molina | 16 March 1984 | R | D |
| 6 | Marc Minguell | 14 January 1985 | R | CB |
| 7 | Ivan Gallego | 13 February 1984 | R | CB |
| 8 | Albert Espanol | 29 October 1985 | R | D |
| 9 | Xavier Valles | 4 September 1979 | R | CF |
| 10 | Felipe Perrone | 27 February 1986 | R | D |
| 11 | Ivan Perez | 29 June 1971 | L | CF |
| 12 | Xavier Garcia | 5 January 1984 | L | D |
| 13 | Daniel Lopez | 16 April 1980 | R | GK |

## South Africa

| No. | Name | Date of birth | L/R | Position | Height |
| 1 | Dwayne Flatscher | 9 July 1984 | R | GK | |
| 2 | Etienne Le Roux | 18 December 1987 | R | CF | |
| 3 | Andrew Ridley | 8 May 1986 | R | D | |
| 4 | Kevin O'Brien | 23 November 1982 | L | D | |
| 5 | Wesley Bohata | 3 December 1992 | R | D | |
| 6 | Jason Kyte | 25 January 1985 | R | CB | |
| 7 | Christopher Brown | 23 July 1987 | R | CB | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| 8 | Ryan Bell | 30 January 1982 | R | CF | |
| 9 | Rick Diesel | 17 December 1982 | R | D | |
| 10 | Pierre Le Roux | 12 December 1985 | R | D | |
| 11 | Adam Kajee | 28 February 1987 | R | D | |
| 12 | Duncan Woods | 4 March 1978 | R | CB | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| 13 | Donn Stewart | 22 August 1980 | R | CB | |

## Serbia

| No. | Name | Date of birth | L/R | Position | Height |
| 1 | Slobodan Soro | 23 December 1978 | R | GK | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) |
| 2 | Marko Avramovic | 24 August 1986 | R | D | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| 3 | Zivko Gocic | 22 August 1982 | R | D | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) |
| 4 | Vanja Udovicic | 12 September 1982 | R | CB | 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) |
| 5 | Slavko Gak | 9 June 1980 | R | D | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| 6 | Dusko Pijetlovic | 25 April 1985 | R | CF | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| 7 | Slobodan Nikic | 25 January 1985 | R | CF | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) |
| 8 | Milan Aleksic | 13 May 1986 | R | CB | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| 9 | Nikola Radjen | 29 January 1985 | R | CB | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) |
| 10 | Filip Filipovic | 2 May 1987 | L | D | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) |
| 11 | Andrija Prlainovic | 28 April 1987 | R | D | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| 12 | Stefan Mitrovic | 29 March 1988 | R | D | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| 13 | Gojko Pijetlovic | 7 August 1983 | R | GK | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) |

## Romania

| No. | Name | Date of birth | L/R | Position | Height |
| 1 | Eduard Mihai Dragusin | 5 January 1984 | R | GK | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| 2 | Cosmin Alexandru Radu | 9 November 1981 | L | CF | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| 3 | Tiberiu Negrean | 1 September 1988 | R | D | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) |
| 4 | Nicolae Virgil Diaconu | 4 September 1980 | R | D | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| 5 | Andrei Ionut Iosep | 20 September 1977 | L | D | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) |
| 6 | Dan Andrei Busila | 10 November 1980 | R | CB | 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) |
| 7 | Gheorghe Florin Dunca | 30 March 1979 | R | CB | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| 8 | Alexandru Matei Guiman | 31 December 1980 | R | D | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| 9 | Edward Andrei Dina | 19 May 1975 | R | D | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| 10 | Ramiro Georgescu | 27 November 1982 | R | D | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| 11 | Alexandru Ghiban | 12 October 1986 | R | CF | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) |
| 12 | Kalman Kadar | 11 June 1979 | R | CB | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| 13 | Dragos Stoenescu | 30 May 1979 | R | | 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) |

## Montenegro

| No. | Name | Date of birth | L/R | Position | Height |
| 1 | Zdravko Radic | 24 June 1979 | R | GK | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| 2 | Drasko Brguljan | 27 December 1984 | R | W | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| 3 | Vjekoslav Paskovic | 23 March 1985 | R | W | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| 4 | Nikola Vukcevic | 14 November 1985 | R | CF | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) |
| 5 | Aleksandar Radovic | 24 February 1987 | R | D | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| 6 | Milan Ticic | 14 August 1979 | R | CB | 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) |
| 7 | Mladjan Janovic | 11 June 1984 | R | P | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| 8 | Nikola Janovic | 22 March 1980 | R | P | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| 9 | Aleksandar Ivovic | 24 February 1986 | R | CB | 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) |
| 10 | Boris Zlokovic | 16 March 1983 | R | CF | 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) |
| 11 | Vladimir Gojkovic | 29 January 1981 | R | P | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| 12 | Predrag Jokic | 3 February 1983 | R | CB | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| 13 | Milos Scepanovic | 9 October 1982 | R | GK | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |

## North Macedonia

| No. | Name | Date of birth | L/R | Position |
| 1 | Dalibor Percinic | 5 May 1976 | R | GK |
| 2 | Anastas Beley | | R | CB |
| 3 | Ivan Vuksanovic | 26 September 1981 | R | D |
| 4 | Dimitar Dimovski | | R | CB |
| 5 | Nebojsa Milic | 9 August 1972 | R | CB |
| 6 | Dimitar Stojcev | | R | D |
| 7 | Marko Micic | 21 July 1981 | R | CB |
| 8 | Vladimir Kreckovic | | R | D |
| 9 | Dusan Krstic | 11 June 1979 | L | D |
| 10 | Marko Basic | 17 August 1979 | R | CF |
| 11 | Nenad Petrovic | 3 May 1977 | R | CB |
| 12 | Danijel Benic | 22 April 1977 | R | CF |
| 13 | Milos Urosevic | 8 March 1980 | R | GK |

## Kazakhstan

| No. | Name | Date of birth | Position |
| 1 | Alexandr Anissimov | 30 August 1987 | GK |
| 2 | Alexey Shmider | 19 March 1990 | FP |
| 3 | Alexandr Gaidukov | 10 January 1973 | FP |
| 4 | Sergey Gorovoy | 6 August 1975 | FP |
| 5 | Murat Shakenov | 23 September 1990 | FP |
| 6 | Vladislav Andreyev | 20 December 1982 | FP |
| 7 | Roman Pinipenko | 24 December 1987 | FP |
| 8 | Nikita Kokorin | 22 July 1989 | FP |
| 9 | Rustam Ukumanov | 22 March 1986 | FP |
| 10 | Mikhail Ruday | 4 May 1988 | FP |
| 11 | Ravil Manafov | 22 June 1985 | FP |
| 12 | Adil Temrkhanov | 3 September 1985 | FP |
| 13 | Alexey Demtchenko | 5 December 1987 | GK |

## Italy

| No. | Name | Date of birth | L/R | Position |
| 1 | Stefano Tempesti | 9 June 1979 | R | GK |
| 2 | Federico Mistrangelo | 11 May 1981 | R | D |
| 3 | Alex Giorgetti | 24 December 1987 | R | D |
| 4 | Fabrizio Buonocore | 28 April 1977 | R | CB |
| 5 | Valentino Gallo | 17 July 1985 | L | D |
| 6 | Maurizio Felugo | | R | D |
| 7 | Andrea Mangiante | 1 July 1976 | R | CB |
| 8 | Valerio Rizzo | 21 September 1984 | R | D |
| 9 | Niccolo Figari | 24 January 1988 | R | CB |
| 10 | Alessandro Calcaterra | | R | CF |
| 11 | Matteo Aicardi | 19 March 1986 | R | CF |
| 12 | Goran Fiorentini | 21 November 1981 | R | D |
| 13 | Tommaso Negri | 26 May 1986 | R | GK |

## Hungary

| No. | Name | Date of birth | L/R | Position |
| 1 | István Gergely | 20 August 1976 | R | GK |
| 2 | Márton Szivós | 19 August 1981 | R | FP |
| 3 | Norbert Madaras | 1 December 1979 | L | FP |
| 4 | Dénes Varga | 29 March 1987 | R | FP |
| 5 | Miklós Gór-Nagy | 8 January 1983 | R | FP |
| 6 | Norbert Hosnyánszky | 4 March 1984 | R | FP |
| 7 | Gergely Kiss | 21 September 1977 | L | FP |
| 8 | Zsolt Varga | 24 May 1978 | R | FP |
| 9 | Dániel Varga | 25 September 1983 | R | FP |
| 10 | Péter Biros | 5 April 1976 | R | FP |
| 11 | Gábor Kis | 27 September 1982 | R | FP |
| 12 | Balázs Hárai | 5 April 1987 | R | FP |
| 13 | Viktor Nagy | 24 July 1984 | R | GK |

## Germany

| No. | Name | Date of birth | L/R | Position |
| 1 | Alexander Tchigir | 6 November 1968 | R | GK |
| 2 | Florian Naroska | 16 April 1982 | R | FP |
| 3 | Fabian Schroedter | 11 September 1982 | R | FP |
| 4 | Marko Savic | 11 January 1981 | R | FP |
| 5 | Marko Stamm | 30 August 1988 | R | FP |
| 6 | Marc Politze | 20 October 1977 | R | FP |
| 7 | Heiko Nossek | 14 March 1982 | R | FP |
| 8 | Julian Real | 22 December 1989 | R | FP |
| 9 | Tobias Preuss | 3 August 1988 | R | FP |
| 10 | Moritz Oeler | 21 October 1985 | R | FP |
| 11 | Andreas Schlotterbeck | 2 March 1982 | R | FP |
| 12 | Soeren Mackeben | 29 January 1979 | R | FP |
| 13 | Roger Kong | 22 September 1984 | R | GK |

## Croatia

| No. | Name | Date of birth | L/R | Position | Height |
| 1 | Ivo Brzica | 13 August 1980 | R | GK | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) |
| 2 | Damir Buric | 2 December 1980 | R | CB | 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) |
| 3 | Miho Boskovic | 11 January 1983 | R | D | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) |
| 4 | Niksa Dobud | 5 August 1985 | R | CF | 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) |
| 5 | Ivan Buljubasic | 31 October 1987 | R | D | 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) |
| 6 | Srdan Antonijevic | 3 February 1985 | R | D | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| 7 | Frano Karac | 4 June 1977 | R | D | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| 8 | Andro Buslje | 4 January 1986 | R | CB | 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) |
| 9 | Sandro Sukno | 30 June 1990 | R | D | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) |
| 10 | Samir Barac | 2 November 1973 | R | D | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| 11 | Igor Hinic | 4 December 1975 | R | CF | 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) |
| 12 | Paulo Obradovic | 9 March 1986 | R | D | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| 13 | Josip Pavic | 5 January 1982 | R | GK | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) |

## China

| No. | Name | Date of birth | L/R | Position |
| 1 | Ge Weiqing | 25 April 1977 | R | GK |
| 2 | Liang Zhongxing | 23 December 1986 | R | CB |
| 3 | Li Jun | 18 October 1980 | R | CB |
| 4 | Yu Lijun | 28 November 1978 | R | CF |
| 5 | Tan Feihu | 11 January 1987 | R | CF |
| 6 | Wang Beiming | 13 August 1983 | R | D |
| 7 | Li Bin | 24 October 1983 | R | D |
| 8 | Wang Yong | 29 January 1979 | R | D |
| 9 | Wang Yang | 17 January 1983 | R | D |
| 10 | Xie Junmin | 17 May 1983 | R | D |
| 11 | Han Zhidong | 29 July 1977 | R | D |
| 12 | Guo Junliang | 1 December 1984 | R | CB |
| 13 | Wu Honghui | 10 April 1990 | R | GK |

## Canada

| No. | Name | Date of birth | L/R | Position |
| 1 | Robin Randall | 1 May 1980 | R | GK |
| 2 | Constantin Kudaba | 17 May 1987 | R | CF |
| 3 | Jonathan Ruse | 12 January 1987 | R | D |
| 4 | Nicolas Constantin-Bicari | 5 December 1991 | R | CF |
| 5 | Justin Boyd | 23 April 1989 | R | D |
| 6 | Thomas Marks | | R | CB |
| 7 | Brandon Jung | | R | D |
| 8 | Kevin Graham | | L | D |
| 9 | Aaron Feltham | | R | D |
| 10 | Dusko Dakic | | R | D |
| 11 | Devon Diggle | | R | D |
| 12 | Jared Mcelroy | | R | CF |
| 13 | Nicolas Youngblud | | R | GK |

## Brazil

| No. | Name | Date of birth | L/R | Position | Height |
| 1 | Andre Cordeiro | 9 August 1967 | R | GK | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| 2 | Conrado Bertoluzzi | 13 July 1981 | R | CB | |
| 3 | Marco Santos | 15 July 1985 | R | CF | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) |
| 4 | Lucas Vita | 1 March 1985 | L | D | 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) |
| 5 | Marcelo Franco | 15 May 1984 | L | D | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| 6 | Leandro Machado | 27 February 1977 | R | CB | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| 7 | Felipe Silva | 8 August 1984 | R | CB | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) |
| 8 | Ruda Franco | 25 July 1986 | R | D | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| 9 | Erik Seegerer | 21 January 1976 | R | D | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| 10 | Felipe Franco | 17 May 1982 | R | CB | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| 11 | Daniel Mameri | 4 April 1972 | R | D | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| 12 | Danilo Correa | 2 September 1988 | R | CF | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| 13 | Luis Mauricio Santos | 7 August 1980 | R | GK | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) |

## Australia

| No. | Name | Date of birth | L/R | Position | Height |
| 1 | James Stanton | 21 July 1987 | B | GK | 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) |
| 2 | Richard Campbell | 18 September 1987 | R | CB | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| 3 | Timothy Cleland | 15 December 1984 | R | CF | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) |
| 4 | Nicholas O'Halloran | 14 August 1987 | L | D | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| 5 | Robert Maitland | 4 September 1983 | R | CB | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| 6 | Anthony Martin | 20 March 1985 | R | CB | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| 7 | John Cotterill | 29 October 1987 | R | D | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| 8 | Grant Richardson | 27 April 1981 | R | D | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| 9 | Thomas Whalan | 13 October 1980 | R | D | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| 10 | William Miller | 21 February 1988 | R | D | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| 11 | Rhys Howden | 2 April 1987 | R | D | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| 12 | Sean Boyd | 10 September 1978 | R | CF | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| 13 | Luke Quinlivan | 20 August 1985 | B | GK | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) |