Ricardo Lucarelli

Ricardo Lucarelli
Lucarelli at the 2014 World Championship
Personal information
Full name Ricardo Samuel Lucarelli Santos de Souza
Nationality Brazilian
Born (1992-02-14) 14 February 1992
Contagem, Brazil[1]
Height 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)[2]
Weight 79 kg (174 lb)
Spike 338 cm (133 in)
Block 308 cm (121 in)
Volleyball information
Position Outside hitter
Current team Funvic Taubaté
Number 8
Career
YearsTeams
2010–2013
2013–2015
2015–		Minas Tênis Clube
SESI São Paulo
Funvic Taubaté
National team
2011–Brazil
Honours
Representing  Brazil
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de JaneiroTeam
World Championship
2014 PolandTeam
World Grand Champions Cup
2013 JapanTeam
2017 JapanTeam
World League
2013 Mar del PlataTeam
2014 FlorenceTeam
2016 KrakówTeam
2017 CuritibaTeam
South American Championship
2013 Cabo Frio
2015 Maceió
2017 Santiago/Temuco
Last updated: 11 August 2017

Ricardo Samuel Lucarelli Santos de Souza (born 14 February 1992) is a Brazilian volleyball player, a member of Brazil men's national volleyball team and Brazilian club Funvic Taubaté, 2016 Olympic Champion, South American Champion 2013, a silver medalist of the World Championship 2014 and the World League (2013, 2014).

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.[3][4] He was again named the Best Outside Spiker, together with teammate Murilo Endres.[5] 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).[2]

Sporting achievements

Clubs

National championships

  • 2011/2012 Brazilian Championship, with Minas Tênis
  • 2012\2013 Brazilian Championship, with Mineiro

National team

Individual

References

  1. ↑ Lucarelli. cob.org.br
  2. 1 2 Ricardo Lucarelli. rio2016.com
  3. ↑ Poland win second World Championship title at home – fivb.org – 21 September 2014
  4. ↑ Poland put an end to the reign of Brazil – fivb.org – 21 September 2014
  5. ↑ Poland in dreamland and in Dream Team – poland2014.fivb.org – 21 September 2014
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Ricardo Lucarelli. nbcolympics.com
  7. 1 2 "BRAZIL WIN RECORD FIFTH TITLE IN MEN'S WORLD GRAND CHAMPIONS CUP". FIVB.org. 17 September 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
Awards
Preceded by
First Award
-
Serbia Marko Ivović
France Antonin Rouzier		 Best Outside Spiker of
FIVB World League
2013
ex aequo Italy Ivan Zaytsev
2014
ex aequo United States Taylor Sander
2017
ex aequo France Earvin N'Gapeth		 Succeeded by
Poland Michał Kubiak
France Earvin N'Gapeth
-
TBD
Preceded by
First Award		 Best Outside Spiker of
FIVB World Championship
2014
ex aequo Brazil Murilo Endres		 Succeeded by
TBD
Preceded by
First Award		 Best Outside Spiker of
Olympic Games
2016
ex aequo United States Aaron Russell		 Succeeded by
TBD
Preceded by
Italy Filippo Lanza and
Russia Dmitriy Ilinikh		 Best Outside Spiker of
World Grand Champions Cup
2017
ex aequo Iran Milad Ebadipour		 Succeeded by
TBD
Preceded by
Russia Dmitriy Muserskiy		 Most Valuable Player of
World Grand Champions Cup
2017		 Succeeded by
TBD
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