Ricardo Lucarelli

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 Italian club Trentino Volley, 2016 Olympic Champion, South American Champion 2013, a silver medalist of the World Championship 2014 and the World League (2013, 2014).

Ricardo Lucarelli
Lucarelli at the 2014 World Championship
Personal information
Full nameRicardo Samuel Lucarelli Santos de Souza
NationalityBrazilian
Born (1992-02-14) 14 February 1992
Contagem, Brazil[1]
Height1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)[2]
Weight79 kg (174 lb)
Spike348 cm (137 in)
Block326 cm (128 in)
Volleyball information
PositionOutside hitter
Current team Trentino Volley
Number8
Career
YearsTeams
2010–2013 Minas Tênis Clube
2013–2015 SESI São Paulo
2015–2020 Funvic Taubaté
2020– Trentino Volley
National team
2011– Brazil
Honours
Men's volleyball
Representing  Brazil
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de JaneiroTeam
World Championship
2014 PolandTeam
World Cup
2019 JapanTeam
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

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

South American Club Championship

National team

Individual

References
  1. Lucarelli. cob.org.br
  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. Ricardo Lucarelli. nbcolympics.com
  7. "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
-
Marko Ivović
Antonin Rouzier		 Best Outside Spiker of
FIVB World League
2013
ex aequo Ivan Zaytsev
2014
ex aequo Taylor Sander
2017
ex aequo Earvin N'Gapeth		 Succeeded by
Michał Kubiak
Earvin N'Gapeth
-
TBD
Preceded by
First Award		 Best Outside Spiker of
FIVB World Championship
2014
ex aequo Murilo Endres		 Succeeded by
TBD
Preceded by
First Award		 Best Outside Spiker of
Olympic Games
2016
ex aequo Aaron Russell		 Succeeded by
TBD
Preceded by
Filippo Lanza and
Dmitriy Ilinikh		 Best Outside Spiker of
World Grand Champions Cup
2017
ex aequo Milad Ebadipour		 Succeeded by
TBD
Preceded by
Dmitriy Muserskiy		 Most Valuable Player of
World Grand Champions Cup
2017		 Succeeded by
TBD
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