Football at the 2005 Mediterranean Games – Men's team squads

Below are the squads for the Football at the 2005 Mediterranean Games, hosted in Almería, Spain, and took place between 23 June and 3 July 2005.^[1] Teams were national U-23 sides (although in fact none of the players named were older than 21).

Main article: Football at the 2005 Mediterranean Games

Group A

Italy

Head coach: Pietro Ghedin^[2]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Enrico Rossi Chauvenet	(1984-06-04)4 June 1984 (aged 21)	2	0	Padova
2	2DF	Domenico Citro	(1984-09-17)17 September 1984 (aged 20)	3	0	Carrarese
3	2DF	Federico Peluso	(1984-01-20)20 January 1984 (aged 21)	3	0	Ternana
4	2DF	Mauro Belotti	(1984-05-13)13 May 1984 (aged 21)	2	0	Prato (on loan from AlbinoLeffe)
5	2DF	Michelangelo Palazzo	(1984-03-09)9 March 1984 (aged 21)	3	0	Olbia
6	3MF	Filippo Porcari	(1984-04-28)28 April 1984 (aged 21)	3	0	Pisa (on loan from Milan)
7	3MF	Nico Pulzetti	(1984-02-13)13 February 1984 (aged 21)	2	0	Castelnuovo (on loan from Cesena)
8	3MF	Gianluca Galasso	(1984-01-18)18 January 1984 (aged 21)	3	0	Salernitana (on loan from Roma)
9	4FW	Antimo Iunco	(1984-06-06)6 June 1984 (aged 21)	2	0	Verona
10	4FW	Daniele Vantaggiato	(1984-10-10)10 October 1984 (aged 20)	3	0	Crotone
11	4FW	Simone Masini	(1984-10-23)23 October 1984 (aged 20)	3	0	Cesena (on loan from Lucchese)
12	1GK	Davide Capello	(1984-09-27)27 September 1984 (aged 20)	1	0	Belluno (on loan from Cagliari)
13	2DF	Dario Bova	(1984-03-31)31 March 1984 (aged 21)	2	0	Imolese
14	2DF	Riccardo Bolzan	(1984-09-01)1 September 1984 (aged 20)	0	0	Sangiovannese
15	3MF	Fabio Catacchini	(1984-01-19)19 January 1984 (aged 21)	3	0	Pistoiese
16	3MF	Paolo Facchinetti	(1984-03-06)6 March 1984 (aged 21)	1	0	Montichiari
17	3MF	Paolo Ruffini	(1984-03-06)6 March 1984 (aged 21)	2	0	Pro Sesto
18	4FW	Federico Piovaccari	(1984-09-10)10 September 1984 (aged 20)	2	0	Vittoria (on loan from Internazionale)

Libya

Head coach: Ante Čačić

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Abdissalam Msallem	(1984-01-01)1 January 1984 (aged 21)	2	0
2	2DF	Zakaria Benmusa	(1984-12-09)9 December 1984 (aged 20)	5	0
3	2DF	Mansur Agala	(1984-11-02)2 November 1984 (aged 20)	4	0
4	2DF	Abddrahman Ezwawi	(1984-05-09)9 May 1984 (aged 21)	5	0
5	2DF	Mohamed Ben Nabia	(1984-05-15)15 May 1984 (aged 21)	4	0
6	3MF	Mohamed Fares	(1985-09-06)6 September 1985 (aged 19)	5	0
8	3MF	Hamed Ahniash	(1984-04-09)9 April 1984 (aged 21)	4	0
9	4FW	Nabil Hndi	(1984-01-01)1 January 1984 (aged 21)	5	0
10	3MF	Marwan Almabrok	(1984-01-01)1 January 1984 (aged 21)	5	0
13	3MF	Ayman El-Hagi	(1984-01-06)6 January 1984 (aged 21)	3	0
14	4FW	Ala Mohamed	(1985-04-24)24 April 1985 (aged 20)	2	0
16	3MF	Mohamed Esnany	(1984-05-13)13 May 1984 (aged 21)	4	0
17	2DF	Mohamed Gbrail	(1985-07-07)7 July 1985 (aged 19)	5	0
19	2DF	Ibrahim Abda	(1984-09-02)2 September 1984 (aged 20)	4	0
20	4FW	Ahmed Wafa	(1986-01-01)1 January 1986 (aged 19)	2	0
21	1GK	Muhsan Ashrif	(1985-12-01)1 December 1985 (aged 19)	3	0
22	3MF	Mohamed El-Mughraby	(1985-01-01)1 January 1985 (aged 20)	4	0
24	3MF	Walid El-Khatroushi	(1985-01-01)1 January 1985 (aged 20)	5	0

Morocco

Head coach: Aziz El Khiyati

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Mohamed Baze	(1986-01-01)1 January 1986 (aged 19)	5	0
2	2DF	Jamaleddine Omari	(1984-02-02)2 February 1984 (aged 21)	5	0
3	3MF	Khalid Sekkat	(1984-05-12)12 May 1984 (aged 21)	5	0	Maghreb Fez
4	2DF	Mohamed Ait Abbou	(1985-08-23)23 August 1985 (aged 19)	5	0	IR Tanger
5	2DF	Omar Bendriss	(1984-05-25)25 May 1984 (aged 21)	5	0	FAR Rabat
6	3MF	Yassine Naoum	(1984-08-22)22 August 1984 (aged 20)	4	0
7	4FW	Youssef Kaddioui	(1984-09-28)28 September 1984 (aged 20)	5	0	FAR Rabat
8	3MF	Mohamed Amine Najmi	(1985-07-23)23 July 1985 (aged 19)	1	0
9	4FW	Hassan Souari	(1984-12-24)24 December 1984 (aged 20)	5	0	Khouribga
10	3MF	Salaheddine Aqqal	(1984-08-22)22 August 1984 (aged 20)	5	0	Khouribga
11	3MF	Saa Eddine Amal	(1984-08-22)22 August 1984 (aged 20)	3	0
12	1GK	Mourad Yabka	(1985-10-11)11 October 1985 (aged 19)	0	0
13	3MF	Abderrazak Barouch	(1984-03-24)24 March 1984 (aged 21)	5	0	KAC Marrakech
14	2DF	Hamza Abourazzouk	(1986-06-16)16 June 1986 (aged 19)	4	0	Wydad Casablanca
15	3MF	Younes Kandoussi	(1984-02-05)5 February 1984 (aged 21)	2	0
16	3MF	Mostafa Fanoune	(1984-11-10)10 November 1984 (aged 20)	2	0	Rachad Bernoussi
17	4FW	Mohamed Zouidi	(1985-02-03)3 February 1985 (aged 20)	5	0
18	2DF	Adil Soudassi	(1985-12-11)11 December 1985 (aged 19)	4	0

Group B

Malta

Head coach: Silvio Vella

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Andrew Hogg	(1985-03-02)2 March 1985 (aged 20)	2	0	Pietà Hotspurs
2	2DF	Alex Muscat	(1984-12-14)14 December 1984 (aged 20)	2	0	Sliema Wanderers
3	2DF	Steve Bezzina	(1987-01-05)5 January 1987 (aged 18)	1	0	Valletta
4	2DF	Josef Mifsud	(1984-09-07)7 September 1984 (aged 20)	2	0	Msida Saint-Joseph
5	1GK	David Camenzuli	(1985-01-24)24 January 1985 (aged 20)	2	0	Pietà Hotspurs
6	2DF	Andrei Agius	(1986-08-12)12 August 1986 (aged 18)	1	0	Atletico Catania
7	3MF	Clayton Failla	(1986-01-08)8 January 1986 (aged 19)	2	0	St. Patrick
8	4FW	Paul Fenech	(1986-12-20)20 December 1986 (aged 18)	2	0	Msida Saint-Joseph
9	3MF	Mark Gauci	(1986-01-07)7 January 1986 (aged 19)	2	0
10	3MF	Dyson Falzon	(1986-03-09)9 March 1986 (aged 19)	2	0	Mosta
11	2DF	Matthew Bartolo	(1986-06-14)14 June 1986 (aged 19)	2	0	Mosta
12	1GK	Bernard Paris	(1985-02-07)7 February 1985 (aged 20)	0	0	Birkirkara
13	3MF	Edmond Agius	(1987-02-23)23 February 1987 (aged 18)	0	0	Hibernians
14	3MF	Joel Sammut Vasquez	(1987-04-02)2 April 1987 (aged 18)	2	0	Birkirkara
15	2DF	Kenneth Spiteri	(1986-03-22)22 March 1986 (aged 19)	1	0
16	4FW	Ryan Fenech	(1986-04-20)20 April 1986 (aged 19)	2	0	Ħamrun Spartans
17	4FW	Andrew Scerri	(1986-03-14)14 March 1986 (aged 19)	2	0
18	2DF	Jonathan Pearson	(1987-01-23)23 January 1987 (aged 18)	0	0	Hibernians

Spain

Head coach: Juan Santisteban

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Rubén Iván Martínez	(1984-06-22)22 June 1984 (aged 21)	2	0	Barcelona
2	2DF	Javier Flaño	(1984-08-19)19 August 1984 (aged 20)	2	0	Osasuna
3	2DF	Iván Ramis	(1984-10-25)25 October 1984 (aged 20)	4	0	Mallorca
4	2DF	Carlos García	(1984-04-29)29 April 1984 (aged 21)	4	0	Poli Ejido (on loan from Espanyol)
5	2DF	Miguel Flaño	(1984-08-19)19 August 1984 (aged 20)	2	0	Osasuna
6	3MF	Miki	(1984-06-28)28 June 1984 (aged 20)	3	0	Espanyol
7	3MF	Francisco Montañés	(1986-10-08)8 October 1986 (aged 18)	4	1	Barcelona
8	3MF	Sergio Torres	(1984-03-02)2 March 1984 (aged 21)	5	0	Atlético Madrid
9	4FW	Kepa Blanco	(1984-01-13)13 January 1984 (aged 21)	4	2	Sevilla
10	4FW	Manu del Moral	(1984-02-25)25 February 1984 (aged 21)	5	2	Recreativo Huelva (on loan from Atlético Madrid)
11	3MF	Antonio Puerta	(1984-11-26)26 November 1984 (aged 20)	5	2	Sevilla
12	4FW	Ángel Javier Arizmendi	(1984-03-03)3 March 1984 (aged 21)	4	1	Racing Santander (on loan from Atlético Madrid)
13	1GK	Iván Cuéllar	(1984-05-27)27 May 1984 (aged 21)	3	0	Atlético Madrid
14	3MF	Gorka Larrea	(1984-04-07)7 April 1984 (aged 21)	4	0	Real Sociedad
15	2DF	Jesús Gámez	(1985-04-10)10 April 1985 (aged 20)	4	2	Málaga
16	2DF	Javier Tarantino	(1984-06-26)26 June 1984 (aged 20)	4	0	Numancia (on loan from Athletic Bilbao)
17	2DF	Juan Valera	(1984-12-21)21 December 1984 (aged 20)	5	1	Murcia
18	3MF	Javi Fuego	(1984-01-07)7 January 1984 (aged 21)	5	0	Sporting Gijón

Turkey

Head coach: Turan Mesci

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Bulut Basmaz	(1984-05-06)6 May 1984 (aged 21)	1	0	Altay
2	2DF	Feridun Sungur	(1984-01-02)2 January 1984 (aged 21)	5	0	Elazığspor
3	2DF	Ramazan Kahya	(1984-09-16)16 September 1984 (aged 20)	5	0	Altay
4	3MF	Sezgin Yilmaz	(1984-07-09)9 July 1984 (aged 20)	1	0	Arsinspor
5	2DF	Bekir İrtegün	(1984-04-20)20 April 1984 (aged 21)	3	0	Gaziantepspor
6	3MF	İbrahim Dağaşan	(1984-06-15)15 June 1984 (aged 20)	5	0	Bursaspor
7	3MF	Emre Hamzaoğlu	(1984-11-23)23 November 1984 (aged 20)	2	0	İstanbulspor
8	3MF	Doğa Kaya	(1984-06-30)30 June 1984 (aged 20)	5	0	Gençlerbirliği
9	4FW	Muhammet Reis	(1984-10-27)27 October 1984 (aged 20)	5	0	Erzurumspor
10	2DF	Ertan Aktepe	(1984-11-01)1 November 1984 (aged 20)	4	0	Adana Demirspor (on loan from Samsunspor)
11	3MF	Serkan Atak	(1984-01-03)3 January 1984 (aged 21)	5	0	Gaziantepspor
12	1GK	Volkan Babacan	(1988-08-11)11 August 1988 (aged 16)	4	0	Fenerbahçe
13	3MF	Arda Turan	(1987-01-30)30 January 1987 (aged 18)	5	0	Galatasaray
14	3MF	Soner Sakarya	(1984-03-12)12 March 1984 (aged 21)	4	0	Eskişehirspor (on loan from Manisaspor)
15	2DF	Serdar Kurtuluş	(1987-07-23)23 July 1987 (aged 17)	1	0	Bursaspor
16	4FW	Cafercan Aksu	(1987-01-05)5 January 1987 (aged 18)	5	0	Galatasaray
17	2DF	Can Arat	(1984-01-21)21 January 1984 (aged 21)	5	0	Sivasspor (on loan from Fenerbahçe)
18	2DF	Serhat Akyüz	(1984-08-10)10 August 1984 (aged 20)	5	0	İstanbulspor

Group C

Algeria

Head coach: Meziane Ighil

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Mohamed Lamine Zemmamouche	(1985-03-19)19 March 1985 (aged 20)	3	0	USM Alger
2	2DF	Belkacem Remache	(1985-10-12)12 October 1985 (aged 19)	2	0	AS Khroub
3	2DF	Benamar Belabbès	(1985-04-20)20 April 1985 (aged 20)	3	0	RCO Agde
4	3MF	Farid Cheklam	(1984-09-21)21 September 1984 (aged 20)	3	0	ASO Chlef
5	4FW	Lazhar Hadj Aïssa	(1984-03-23)23 March 1984 (aged 21)	3	0	ES Sétif
6	2DF	Sofiane Herkat	(1984-01-26)26 January 1984 (aged 21)	2	0	USM El Harrach
7	3MF	Fahem Ouslati	(1986-03-14)14 March 1986 (aged 19)	3	0	CR Belouizdad
8	3MF	Tayeb Berramla	(1985-01-06)6 January 1985 (aged 20)	3	0	ASM Oran
9	4FW	Sofiane Hanitser	(1984-11-20)20 November 1984 (aged 20)	3	0	ASM Oran
10	2DF	Kheireddine Zarabi	(1984-07-18)18 July 1984 (aged 20)	1	0	RC Kouba
11	2DF	Mohamed Boussefiane	(1985-01-18)18 January 1985 (aged 20)	1	0	RC Kouba
12	2DF	Lhoussine Ould Blal	(1985-02-12)12 February 1985 (aged 20)	3	0	Paris FC
13	3MF	Farid Boutadjine	(1984-08-18)18 August 1984 (aged 20)	1	0	Entente SSG
14	3MF	Nacereddine Khoualed	(1986-04-16)16 April 1986 (aged 19)	3	0	US Biskra
15	3MF	Abdelmadjid Benatia	(1984-12-12)12 December 1984 (aged 20)	3	0	MC Oran
16	1GK	Salah Sahraoui	(1984-03-28)28 March 1984 (aged 21)	0	0	MSP Batna
17	3MF	Hocine Metref	(1984-01-01)1 January 1984 (aged 21)	3	0	USM Alger
18	3MF	Bouazza Feham	(1986-04-11)11 April 1986 (aged 19)	2	0	ASM Oran

Greece

Head coach: Stylianos Aposporis

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Konstantinos Andriolas	(1985-05-01)1 May 1985 (aged 20)	2	0	Halkidona
2	2DF	Thanasis Moulopoulos	(1985-06-09)9 June 1985 (aged 19)	2	0	Ethnikos Asteras
3	2DF	Grigoris Papazaharias	(1985-03-20)20 March 1985 (aged 20)	3	0	Iraklis
4	2DF	Vasilis Torosidis	(1985-06-10)10 June 1985 (aged 19)	3	0	Xanthi
5	2DF	Christos Pipinis	(1984-11-01)1 November 1984 (aged 20)	3	0	Akratitos
6	3MF	Nikolaos Karabelas	(1984-12-20)20 December 1984 (aged 20)	3	0	Paniliakos
7	3MF	Themistoklis Tzimopoulos	(1985-11-20)20 November 1985 (aged 19)	1	0	Akratitos
8	3MF	Dimitrios Gkikas	(1984-04-04)4 April 1984 (aged 21)	2	0
9	4FW	Petros Konteon	(1984-05-09)9 May 1984 (aged 21)	2	0	Niki Volos (on loan from PAOK)
10	3MF	Kostas Mendrinos	(1985-05-28)28 May 1985 (aged 20)	3	0	Olympiacos
11	3MF	Nikos Arabatzis	(1984-03-10)10 March 1984 (aged 21)	2	0	Panserraikos
12	1GK	Orestis Karnezis	(1985-07-11)11 July 1985 (aged 19)	1	0	OFI Crete
13	3MF	Stefanos Kapias	(1984-02-15)15 February 1984 (aged 21)	1	0	Apollon Kalamarias
14	4FW	Georgios Gravanis	(1985-09-30)30 September 1985 (aged 19)	3	0
15	2DF	Avraam Papadopoulos	(1984-12-03)3 December 1984 (aged 20)	3	0	Aris
16	3MF	Dimitrios Tsitsomitsos	(1985-05-10)10 May 1985 (aged 20)	0	0	Anagennisi Arta
17	4FW	Georgios Katsaros	(1984-01-19)19 January 1984 (aged 21)	3	0	Panachaiki Patras
18	3MF	Efstathios Rokas	(1984-09-18)18 September 1984 (aged 20)	3	0	Ionikos

Tunisia

Head coach: Khemais Abidi

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Ali Klay		2	0
2	3MF	Maouia Kadri		3	0
3	2DF	Wissam El Bekri	(1984-06-16)16 June 1984 (aged 21)	2	0	Châteauroux
4	4FW	Maher Ameur	(1987-02-07)7 February 1987 (aged 18)	2	0	Club Africain
5	2DF	Aymen Ben Amor	(1985-09-07)7 September 1985 (aged 19)	3	0	CS Sfaxien
6	2DF	Khaled Souissi	(1985-05-20)20 May 1985 (aged 20)	3	0	Club Africain
7	3MF	Youssef Mouihbi	(1985-04-01)1 April 1985 (aged 20)	2	0	AS Marsa
8	3MF	Khaled Melliti	(1984-05-22)22 May 1984 (aged 21)	2	0	Étoile du Sahel
9	4FW	Hamza Younés	(1986-04-16)16 April 1986 (aged 19)	2	0	CS Sfaxien
10	3MF	Ahmed Ben Yahia	(1985-05-05)5 May 1985 (aged 20)	2	0	Espérance de Tunis
11	3MF	Mohamed Labidi		3	0
12	4FW	Raouf Gabsi	(1984-02-23)23 February 1984 (aged 21)	2	0	Espérance de Tunis
13	3MF	Wissem Ben Yahia	(1984-09-09)9 September 1984 (aged 20)	3	0	Club Africain
14	3MF	Chaker Zouagi	(1985-01-10)10 January 1985 (aged 20)	2	0	Étoile du Sahel
15	2DF	Hamdi Mabrouk	(1986-01-05)5 January 1986 (aged 19)	1	0	US Monastir
16	1GK	Ben Ali Majed		1	0
17	2DF	Mohamed Ali Gharzoul	(1985-12-14)14 December 1985 (aged 19)	3	0	Toulouse
18	2DF	Karim Touati	(1985-03-20)20 March 1985 (aged 20)	2	0

References

1. "Mediterranean Games 2005 (Almería, Spain)". RSSSF. Dinant Abbink & Erik Garin. 21 December 2002.
2. "Convocazioni Giochi del Mediterraneo" (PDF). FIGC (in Italian). 9 June 2005. Retrieved 23 August 2010.