No. 4 Australia named the 17-player roster for the XVI WBSC Men’s Softball World Championship, to be played from 13-23 June in Prague and Havlickuv Brod, Czech Republic.

72 games in Czech Republic will determine the best softball country/team in the world

New Zealand will carry to Europe 13 veterans from the 2017 world champion team in Whitehorse, Canada, where the Black Sox claimed its seventh title with a spectacular come-from-behind victory over Australia

Johanson brings a wealth of experience to the biggest stage having held an Assistant Coach role for the Aussie Steelers in 2009 in Saskatoon, Canada, when Australia won gold and in 2013 in Auckland, NZ, when the team won bronze

The 7th ranked nation in the world named 21 players to face the global tournament, the first-ever to be held in European soil.