Ricardo Lucarelli
Ricardo Lucarelli | |||||
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Personal information | |||||
Full name | Ricardo Samuel Lucarelli Santos de Souza | ||||
Nationality | Brazilian | ||||
Born | Contagem, Brazil | 14 February 1992||||
Height | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||||
Weight | 90 kg (198 lb) | ||||
Spike | 355 cm (140 in) | ||||
Block | 340 cm (134 in) | ||||
Volleyball information | |||||
Position | Outside hitter | ||||
Current club | Trentino Volley | ||||
Number | 8 | ||||
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Ricardo Samuel Lucarelli Santos de Souza (born 14 February 1992) is a Brazilian volleyball player, member of the Brazil men's national volleyball team and Italian club Trentino Volley, 2016 Olympic Champion, silver medallist of the 2014 World Championship, gold medallist of the 2019 World Cup, fourth–time South American Champion (2013, 2015, 2017 and 2021).
Career[]
Clubs[]
In 2010 he started playing for Minas Tênis Clube. In 2013 he signed a contract with SESI São Paulo, and in 2015 he was hired by the club Funvic Taubaté.
National team[]
The young Lucarelli defended the junior national team in 2010, when won the gold medal in the South American Championship .In the next year, he was on the group that finished fifth in the World Championship. In 2013 Lucarelli won the World Grand Champions Cup, a gold medal at the South American Championship and a silver medal at the World League, where he was named the Best Outside Spiker (together with Ivan Zaytsev). In 2014 he was a major player in Brazilian team, which won the silver medal at the World League 2014 in Florence, Italy.[1][2] He was again named the Best Outside Spiker, together with teammate Murilo Endres.[3] Lucarelli one of the starts in the Bernardinho team, Lucarelli was in the court in all the games of FIVB World League and the conquest of the South American Games in 2015. In the special year of 2016, Lucarelli was a key player in the gold medal campaign in the Rio Olympic Game. Lucarelli was part of the team that won the gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. He played the last three games, against Argentina (quarterfinals), Russia (semifinals) and Italy (finals).
Sporting achievements[]
Clubs[]
- CSV South American Club Championship
- Belo Horizonte 2013 – with Minas Tênis Clube
- Taubate 2016 – with Vôlei Taubaté
- Contagem 2020 – with Vôlei Taubaté
- National championships
- 2018/2019 Brazilian Championship, with Vôlei Taubaté
Youth national team[]
Individual awards[]
- 2009: FIVB U19 World Championship – Best Receiver
- 2013: CSV South American Club Championship – Best Server
- 2013: FIVB U23 World Championship – Most Valuable Player
- 2013: FIVB World League – Best Outside Spiker
- 2013: CSV South American Championship – Best Outside Spiker
- 2014: FIVB World League – Best Outside Spiker
- 2014: FIVB World Championship – Best Outside Spiker
- 2016: CSV South American Club Championship – Best Outside Spiker
- 2016: Olympic Games – Best Outside Spiker
- 2017: FIVB World League – Best Outside Spiker
- 2017: CSV South American Championship – Best Outside Spiker
- 2017: FIVB World Grand Champions Cup – Best Outside Spiker
- 2017: FIVB World Grand Champions Cup – Most Valuable Player
- 2021: CSV South American Championship – Best Outside Spiker
External links[]
- Player profile at Olympic.org
- Player profile at CEV.eu
- Player profile at LegaVolley.it
- Player profile at WorldofVolley.com
- Player profile at Volleybox.net
- 2019 FIVB World Cup – Team Brazil
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References[]
- ^ Poland win second World Championship title at home – fivb.org – 21 September 2014
- ^ Poland put an end to the reign of Brazil – fivb.org – 21 September 2014
- ^ Poland in dreamland and in Dream Team – poland2014.fivb.org – 21 September 2014
- 1992 births
- Living people
- People from Contagem
- Brazilian men's volleyball players
- Olympic volleyball players of Brazil
- Volleyball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Olympic gold medalists for Brazil
- Outside hitters
- Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
- Expatriate volleyball players in Italy
- Trentino Volley players
- Volleyball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics