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Marco Aurélio Motta
Marco Aurélio Motta (born 1960 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a volleyball coach from Brazil. He is the head coach of the Turkey women's national team since 2011. He began with volleyball playing at the age of 14. He pursued a career as a coach for beach volleyball as he was 17. During that time, he discovered and coached talented beach volleyball players such as Ana Richa and Adriana Samuel. He graduated from the Sports Academy, and helped his club Bradesco became 1984 Brazilian champion with eight young members. Discovering volleyballers like Ana Moser, Fernanda Venturini, Denise, Ana Richa, Ana Flavia, Marcia Fu, Simone Storm and Tina, he made the Brazil junior women's national volleyball team world's fourth in 1985, and two years later world champion. Motta transferred in 1987 to Lutkin Sports Club, and made his new club Brazilian champion. Between 1991 and 1996, he coached Italy's junior women's national team. He is considered as the main architect of the team's devel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a beta global city, Rio de Janeiro is the sixth-most populous city in the Americas. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea", on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape. Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. In 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Portuguese Royal Court moved to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal. She subsequently, under the leadership of her son the prince regent João VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
