Goalkeepers: Roberto Abbondanzieri (Boca Juniors), Leonardo Franco (Atletico Madrid/ESP), Oscar Ustari (Independiente)
Defenders: Nicolas Burdisso (Inter Milan/ITA), Gabriel Milito (Zaragoza/ESP), Juan Pablo Sorin (Villarreal/ESP), Fabricio Coloccini (Deportivo La Coruna/ESP), Leandro Cufre (Roma/ITA), Roberto Ayala (Valencia/ESP), Gabriel Heinze (Manchester United/ENG)
Midfielders: Maximiliano Rodriguez (Atletico Madrid/ESP), Esteban Cambiasso (Inter Milan/ITA), Juan Roman Riquelme (Villarreal/ESP), Lionel Scaloni (West Ham/ENG), Luis Gonzalez (Porto/POR), Javier Mascherano (Corinthians/BRA), Pablo Aimar (Valencia/ESP)
Forwards: Lionel Messi (Barcelona/ESP), Hernan Crespo (Chelsea/ENG), Carlos Tevez (Corinthians/BRA), Javier Saviola (Sevilla/ESP), Julio Cruz (Inter Milan/ITA), Rodrigo Palacio (Boca Juniors)
World Cup 2006 record
Group C
June 10
At Hamburg
Argentina 2 (Crespo 24, Saviola 38) Ivory Coast 1 (Drogba 82)
June 16
At Gelsenkirchen
Argentina 6 (Maxi Rodriguez 6, 41, Cambiasso 31, Crespo 78, Tevez 84, Messi 88) Serbia-Montenegro 0
June 21
At Frankfurt
Netherlands 0 Argentina 0
June 24
At Leipzig
Argentina 2 (Borgetti 10-og, Rodriguez ) Mexico 1 (Marquez 6)
Argentina v Germany head-to-head record (FIFA records)
Argentina lead 4-3 with three draws
1958: Argentina 1 West Germany 3 (Malmo)
1966: West Germany 0 Argentina 0 (Birmingham)
1986: West Germany 3 Argentina 2 (Mexico)
1987: Argentina 1 West Germany 0 (Buenos Aires)
1988: West Germany 1 Argentina 0 (Berlin)
1990: West Germany 1 Argentina 0 (Rome)
1993: Argentina 2 Germany 1 (Miami)
2002: Germany 0 Argentina 1 (Stuttgart)
2005: Germany 2 Argentina 2 (Dusseldorf)
2005: Germany 2 Argentina 2 (Nuremberg)