Dutch national coach Peter Cantrell has announced a squad of 23 players to take part in winter training as the first stage of preparation for the 2007 World Cup.

The squad is:

• LP van Troost (captain) (Excelsior �20)
• J Smits (vice-captain) (HCC)
• DLS van Bunge (Excelsior �20)
• AF Buurman (VCC)
• RN ten Doeschate (Essex)
• ES van Giezen (Hermes/DVS)
• SF Gokke (Excelsior �20)
• VD Grandia (VRA)
• TN de Grooth (HCC)
• KM Hussain (VOC)
• MBS Jonkman (HCC)
• AN Kervezee (HBS)
• TBM de Leede (VCC)
• MWA van Nierop (VRA)
• Adeel Raja (VRA)
• DJ Reekers (Quick Haag)
• E Schiferli (Quick Haag)
• JD Schoonheim (VOC)
• PM Seelaar (Hermes/DVS)
• WF Stelling (Excelsior �20)
• ES Szwarczynski (VRA)
• JJJ Westermann (VRA)
• B Zuiderent (VOC)

Cantrell has gone for a blend of experience of youth, with a nucleus of players who played in the 2003 World Cup, several teenagers including the sixteen-year-old Alexei Kervezee, and several more in their early twenties.