Marcelo Fronckowiak
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Full name | Marcelo Ricardo Fronckowiak | ||||||
Nationality | Brazilian | ||||||
Born | Porto Alegre, Brazil | 14 March 1968||||||
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Current team | Tours VB | ||||||
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Marcelo Ricardo Fronckowiak (born 14 March 1968) is a Brazilian volleyball coach and former volleyball player of Polish descent, three–time Brazilian Champion (1995, 1998, 1999), former assistant coach of the Brazil men's national volleyball team and the current head coach of the French team, Tours VB.[1]
Career as coach[]
Fronckowiak began his coaching career in 2002, leading Sport Club Ulbra to the Brazilian Champion title next year and 2nd place in 2004. Alongside Tourcoing LM, he won the CEV Challenge Cup bronze medal. He won 2nd place in the French Championship 2008/2009 season losing the final matches to Paris Volley. He came back to his native country in 2009 as a head coach of Minas Tênis Clube and achieved 3rd place and bronze medal in 2012. After joining Associação Desportiva RJX in 2012, he once again in his career won the Brazilian Champion title.
In 2017, he became an assistant of Renan Dal Zotto in the Brazilian national volleyball team, just before being dismissed from Vôlei Canoas, probably due to reduced budget for a new season.[2] In 2018, he signed a contract with the Italian team, Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia.[3] In the same year, he became a head coach of the Polish team, Cuprum Lubin.[4]
Sporting achievements[]
As a player[]
- CSV South American Club Championship
- Ribeirão Preto 1991 – with Associação Atlética Frangosul
- São Paulo 1992 – with Clube Atlético Pirelli
- National championships
- 1994/1995 Brazilian Championship, with Frangosul/Ginástica
- 1997/1998 Brazilian Championship, with Canoas Sport Club
- 1998/1999 Brazilian Championship, with Canoas Sport Club
As a coach[]
- National championships
- 2002/2003 Brazilian Championship, with Canoas Sport Club
- 2012/2013 Brazilian Championship, with Associação Desportiva RJX
References[]
- ^ Marcelo Fronckowiak w końcu pracuje w kraju przodków. "Chcę nauczyć się polskiego" – sportowefakty.wp.pl – 09.11.2018
- ^ BRA M: Canoas part ways with coach Fronckowiak, assistant in Brazil’s NT – worldofvolley.com – 19.07.2017
- ^ Vibo Valentia Announces Brazilian Fronckowiak As Its New Head Coach – volleymob.com – 16.01.2018
- ^ Cuprum Lubin Announces Brazilian Marcelo Fronckowiak As Its New HC – volleymob.com – 15.08.2018
External links[]
- Coach profile at the European Volleyball Confederation
- Coach profile at LegaVolley.it
- Coach/Player profile at Volleybox.net
- 1968 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Porto Alegre
- Brazilian people of Polish descent
- Brazilian men's volleyball players
- Brazilian volleyball coaches
- Volleyball coaches of international teams
- Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in France
- Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Russia
- Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
- Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Poland
- Cuprum Lubin coaches