Robertlandy Simón

Robertlandy Simón
Personal information
Full name	Robertlandy Simón Aties
Nationality	Cuban
Born	(1987-06-11) June 11, 1987 Guantánamo, Cuba
Height	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)
Weight	114 kg (251 lb)
Spike	390 cm (150 in)
Block	350 cm (140 in)
Volleyball information
Position	Middle blocker
Current club	Cucine Lube Civitanova
Number	10
Career
Years Teams 2012–2014 2014 2014–2016 2016 2016–2018 2018- Copra Elior Piacenza Al Rayyan OK Savings Bank El Jaish Sada Cruzeiro Cucine Lube Civitanova
National team
2005–2010  Cuba
Honours Representing  Cuba Men's volleyball World Championship 2010 Italy NORCECA Championship 2009 Bayamón 2007 Anaheim World League 2005 Belgrade
Last updated: 13 February 2017

Robertlandy Simón Aties (born 11 June 1987) is a Cuban volleyball player, a member of Cuba men's national volleyball team in 2005–2010 and Brazilian club Sada Cruzeiro, 2009 NORCECA Champion, silver medalist of the 2010 World Championship, double South Korean Champion (2015, 2016).

Career

Robertlandy debuted in the national team at age of 17. He was Cuban national team captain for 5 years.^[1] In 2009 he achieved individual awards at 2009 World Grand Champions Cup. In 2010 Cuba, including Simon, went to the finale of 2010 World Championship with Brazil.^[2] On October 10, 2010 he achieved silver medal.^[3] He was Best Blocker of the tournament. Simon was champion of the Italian Cup 2013/14 and of the Challenge Cup 2012/13 with Piacenza. He used to be the world’s Best Middle Blocker before he left Cuba in 2010 right after the 2010 World Championship to pursue his dreams and to make a decent living overseas. Simon helped Al Rayyan to win the 2014 Club World Championship. He was the most expensive player in South Korea League from 2014 to 2016.^[4] Simon joined Brazilian club Sada Cruzeiro in 2016.^[5]

Style of Play

Simon touched 384 cm and, according to his coach, has reached a record of 389 cm. This happened during the athletic test for the Piacenza team at Serie A1.

Sporting achievements

References

External links

• FIVB profile

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Awards
Preceded by Gustavo Endres	Best Blocker of Pan American Games 2007	Succeeded by Sebastian Sole
Preceded by Santiago Darraidou	Best Blocker of America's Cup 2007	Succeeded by Éder Carbonera
Preceded by Riley Salmon	Best Spiker of America's Cup 2007 2008	Succeeded by –
Preceded by Lucas Chávez	Best Scorer of America's Cup 2008	Succeeded by –
Preceded by Dante Amaral	Best Spiker of FIVB World League 2009	Succeeded by Maxim Mikhaylov
Preceded by Marko Podraščanin	Best Blocker of FIVB World League 2009	Succeeded by Dmitriy Muserskiy
Preceded by Murray Grapentine	Best Blocker of NORCECA Championship 2009	Succeeded by David Lee
Preceded by Ryan Millar	Best Blocker of FIVB World Grand Champions Cup 2009	Succeeded by Maxwell Holt Emanuele Birarelli
Preceded by Abdalla Ahmed	Best Server of FIVB World Grand Champions Cup 2009	Succeeded by –
Preceded by André Nascimento	Most Valuable Player of FIVB World Grand Champions Cup 2009	Succeeded by Dmitriy Muserskiy
Preceded by Aleksey Kuleshov	Best Blocker of FIVB World Championship 2010	Succeeded by Karol Kłos Marcus Böhme
Preceded by Emanuele Birarelli Matteo Burgsthaler - Pablo Crer Artem Volvich	Best Middle Blocker of FIVB Club World Championship 2014 ex aequo José Santos Júnior 2017 ex aequo Alexey Samoylenko	Succeeded by Nikolay Nikolov Alexander Gutsalyuk - TBD