Ricardo Lucarelli

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, three–time South American Champion (2013, 2015, 2017).

Ricardo Lucarelli
Personal information
Full nameRicardo Samuel Lucarelli Santos de Souza
Nationality Brazilian
Born (1992-02-14) 14 February 1992
Contagem, Brazil
Height1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight90 kg (198 lb)
Spike355 cm (140 in)
Block340 cm (134 in)
Volleyball information
PositionOutside hitter
Current club Trentino Volley
Number8
Career
YearsTeams
2010–2013
2013–2015
2015–2020
2020–		 Minas Tênis Clube
SESI São Paulo
Vôlei Taubaté
Trentino Volley
National team
2011– Brazil
Honours
Men's volleyball
Representing  Brazil
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro
FIVB World Championship
2014 Poland
FIVB World Cup
2019 Japan
FIVB World Grand Champions Cup
2013 Japan
2017 Japan
FIVB World League
2013 Mar del Plata
2014 Florence
2016 Kraków
2017 Curitiba
CSV South American Championship
2013 Cabo Frio
2015 Maceió
2017 Chile

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
  • National championships

Youth national team

Individual awards
Awards
Preceded by
First Award		 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
Not awarded
Preceded by
First Award		 Best Outside Spiker of
FIVB World Championship
2014
ex aequo Murilo Endres		 Succeeded by
Michał Kubiak
Douglas Souza
Preceded by
First Award		 Best Outside Spiker of
Olympic Games
2016
ex aequo Aaron Russell		 Succeeded by
TBD
Preceded by
Filippo Lanza
Dmitriy Ilinikh		 Best Outside Spiker of
FIVB World Grand Champions Cup
2017
ex aequo Milad Ebadipour		 Succeeded by
TBD
Preceded by
Dmitriy Muserskiy		 Most Valuable Player of
FIVB World Grand Champions Cup
2017		 Succeeded by
TBD

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