Álvaro Magliano de Morais Filho (born November 27, 1990 in

João Pessoa, Paraíba João Pessoa (), a port city in northeastern Brazil, is the state of Paraíba's capital and largest city, with an estimated population of 817,511 (as of 2020). It is located on the right bank of the Paraíba do Norte river. The new "Estação ...

) is a Brazilian male

beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two or more players on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the ...

player. Early in his adolescence, Álvaro liked to play soccer. By the influence of his father, who practices

, Álvaro began venturing onto the sand and as he says himself: "I have become hooked to

". He played with Vitor Felipe from 2007 to the middle of the 2011 season, when he started a partnership with Moisés. Over the years, he also played with Fábio Luiz, Benjamin, Luciano and Thiago. In March 2013, he started playing with Ricardo Santos, a world class Olympic Games gold medalist player.Perfil dos Atletas – CBV
This partnership proved to be outstanding and led Álvaro and Ricardo to finish the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship Mazury 2013 in second place. Furthermore, Álvaro also won the prize of Most Valuable Player of the tournament. FIVB said that "... the tournament's Most Valuable Player Alvaro Filho not only performed superbly on the sand but the statistics also reflected how well he played. The 22-year-old topped the most number of spikes and digs illustrating how often he was served to while impressing with his back court play". In 2019, Álvaro partnered with Olympic champion -

Alison Cerutti Alison Conte Cerutti (born 7 December 1985) is a Brazilian beach volleyball player. He plays as a blocker. In 2011, along with Emanuel Rego he won the Swatch FIVB World Tour in Prague, Czech Republic.

. The team will be competing in the Tokyo2020 journey.FIVB Press Release

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