Ricardo_Lucarelli

Ricardo Lucarelli

Ricardo Lucarelli

Brazilian volleyball player

Ricardo Samuel Lucarelli Santos de Souza (born 14 February 1992) is a Brazilian professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for Gas Sales Piacenza and the Brazil national team. He was a gold medallist in the men's tournament at the Olympic Games Rio 2016 and the 2019 World Cup winner.

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Career

Club

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, winning the gold medal in the South American Championship. The following year, he was in 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 the 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 was one of the Bernardinho team's starters; Lucarelli was on the court in all the games of the 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 at the Rio Olympic Games. 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).

Honours

Club

Youth national team

Individual awards

References

  1. [1]
    Poland win second World Championship title at home – fivb.org – 21 September 2014
  2. [2]
    Poland put an end to the reign of Brazil – fivb.org – 21 September 2014
  3. [3]
    Poland in dreamland and in Dream Team – poland2014.fivb.org – 21 September 2014
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