European club season is coming to an end and we are couple of months away from the biggest sporting competition in the world which is “FIFA World Cup” taking place this year in Brazil. Here are some rules and regulation about when and how the teams has to announce final 23 men squads.
Squad Announcement Deadline | 13 May 2014 |
Number of Players in Final Squad | 23 |
Number of Goalkeepers | at least 3 |
Number of outfield players | 20 |
Available shirt numbers | 1 to 23 only |
Starting Xi announcement time | 75 minutes before the match kickoff time |
Max Number of people allowed on substitutes bench | (8 officials and 12 substitutes) |
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We will preview every single team of the 32 participating in the world cup with their full team squads, predict starting lineups and the key players. So just bookmark this page and keep coming back for more information right here.
Here is the previews of all 32 teams for the Fifa world cup 2014.
NO# | TEAM | CAPTAIN | COACH |
1 | Argentina | Javier Mascherano | Alejandro Sabella |
2 | Australia | Lucas Neill | Ange Postecoglou |
3 | Algeria | Madjid Bougherra | Vahid Halilhodzic |
4 | Brazil | Thiago Silva | Luiz Felipe Scolari |
5 | Belgium | Vincent Kompany | Marc Wilmots |
6 | Bosnia & Herzegovina | Emir Spahic | Safet Sušić |
7 | Cameroon | Samuel Eto’o | Volker Finke |
8 | Chile | Claudio Bravo | Jorge Sampaoli |
9 | Colombia | Mario Yepes | José Pékerman |
10 | Costa Rica | Bryan Ruiz | Jorge Luis Pinto |
11 | Croatia | Darijo Srna | Niko Kovac |
12 | Ecuador | Antonio Valencia | Reinaldo Rueda |
13 | England | Steven Gerrard | Roy Hodgson |
14 | France | Hugo Lloris | Didier Deschamps |
15 | Germany | Philipp Lahm | Joachim Low |
16 | Ghana | Asamoah Gyan | James Kwesi Appiah |
17 | Greece | Giorgos Karagounis | Fernando Santos |
18 | Holland | Robin Van Persie | Louis Van Gaa |
19 | Honduras | Noel Valladares | Luis Fernando Suarez |
20 | Iran | Javad Nekounam | Carlos Queiroz |
21 | Italy | Gianluigi Buffon | Cesare Prandelli |
22 | Ivory Coast | Didier Drogba | Sabri Lamouchi |
23 | Japan | Makoto Hasebe | Alberto Zaccheroni |
24 | Mexico | Rafael Marquez | Miguel Herrera |
25 | Nigeria | Vincent Enyeama | Stephen Keshi |
26 | Portugal | Cristiano Ronaldo | Paulo Bento |
27 | Russia | Igor Denisov | Fabio Cappelo |
28 | South Korea | Lee Chung-Yong | Hong Myung-Bo |
29 | Spain | Iker Casillas | Vicente del Bosque |
30 | Switzerland | Gokhan Inler | Ottmar Hitzfeld |
31 | United States | Clint Dempsey | Jurgen Klinsmann |
32 | Uruguay | Diego Lugano | Oscar Tabarez |