Hugo Néstor Conte (born April 14, 1963) is a

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

coach and retired player from

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

, who represented his native country in three

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. He was born at

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. He currently coaches Volley

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in Italy. After having finished in sixth place at the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon ...

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Conte was a member of the men's national team that claimed the bronze medal four years later in

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. Twelve years later he was on the squad ending up in fourth place at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

. He is considered to be one of the 8 greatest Volleyball players of all time, and the best Argentinian player, next to Waldo Kantor. With Italian Santal Parma, he won the 1984

European Champions League The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competiti ...

. Hugo's son,

Facundo ''Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism'' (original Spanish title: ''Facundo: Civilización y Barbarie'') is a book written in 1845 by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, a writer and journalist who became the second president of Argentina. It is a corne ...

is also an international volleyball player.

Clubs history

References

* 1963 births Living people Volleyball players from Buenos Aires Argentine men's volleyball players Argentine volleyball coaches Olympic volleyball players of Argentina Volleyball players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Argentina Olympic medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in volleyball Pan American Games bronze medalists for Argentina Medalists at the 1983 Pan American Games {{Argentina-Olympic-medalist-stub