TEHRAN — Croat manager Branko Ivankovic named 23 players for the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany Monday night.

GOALKEEPERS

Ebrahim Mirzapur (Fulad)

Vahid Taleblu (Esteqlal of Tehran)

Hassan Rudbarian (Pas)

DEFENDERS

Yahya Golmohammadi (Saba Battery)

Mohammad Nosrati (Pas)

Rahman Rezaii (Messina)

Sattar Zare’ (Barq)

Hossein Ka’bi (Fulad)

Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh (Saba Battery)

Amir-Hossein Sadeqi (Esteqlal of Tehran)

MIDFIELDERS

Javad Nekunam (Sharjah/UAE)

Anderanik Teymurian (Abu Moslem)

Mehdi Mahdavikia (Hamburg SV)

Fereydun Zandi (Kaiserslautern)

Ali Karimi (Bayern Munich)

Mehrzad Ma’danchi (Persepolis)

Javad Kazemian (Persepolis)

FORWARDS

Ali Daei (Saba Battery)

Vahid Hashemian (Hannover 96)

Gholamreza Enayati (Esteqlal of Tehran)

Arash Borhani (Pas)

Massud Shojaii (Saipa)

Rassul Khatibi (Sepahan)