Ricardo Samuel Lucarelli Santos de Souza (born 14 February 1992) is a Brazilian professional

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player. He is a member of the Brazil national team. The 2016 Olympic Champion, a silver medallist at the 2014 World Championship, 2019 World Cup winner, and a four–time South American Champion (

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and

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). At the professional club level, he plays for Gas Sales Piacenza.

Career

Clubs

In 2010 he started playing for

Minas Tênis Clube Minas Tênis Clube (short, just ''Minas'') is a social, recreational and sports club from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. By 2013, it has more than 73,000 members. Its patrimony comprises two urban units, the Minas I and Minas II, and two country units, ...

. In 2013 he signed a contract with SESI São Paulo, and in 2015 he was hired by the club Funvic Taubaté.hi

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

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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

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. He was again named the ''Best Outside Spiker'', together with teammate

Murilo Endres Murilo Endres (born May 3, 1981) is a Brazilian volleyball player, member of Brazil men's national volleyball team and Brazilian club SESI São Paulo. He is a double silver medalist of the Olympic Games from Beijing 2008 and London 2012, World ...

.''Poland in dreamland and in Dream Team''
– poland2014.fivb.org – 21 September 2014 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

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at the

2016 Olympic Games ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro d ...

in Rio de Janeiro. He played the last three games, against Argentina (quarterfinals), Russia (semifinals) and Italy (finals).

Honours

Clubs

* CSV South American Club Championship ** Silver medal southamerica

Belo Horizonte 2013 – with

Taubate 2016 – with Vôlei Taubaté * FIVB Club World Championship ** Silver medal with cup

Brazil 2021 – with Cucine Lube Civitanova * National championships ** 2018/2019 Gold medal with cup

Brazilian Championship, with Vôlei Taubaté

Youth national team

* 2013

FIVB U23 World Championship

Individual awards

* 2009: FIVB U19 World Championship – Best Receiver * 2013: CSV South American Club Championship – Best Server * 2013: FIVB U23 World Championship – Most Valuable Player * 2013:

FIVB World League The FIVB Volleyball World League was an annual international men's volleyball competition. Created in 1990, it was the longest and richest of all the international events organized by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB). The wom ...

– Best Outside Spiker * 2013: CSV South American Championship – Best Outside Spiker * 2014:

– Best Outside Spiker * 2014: FIVB World Championship – Best Outside Spiker * 2016: CSV South American Club Championship – Best Outside Spiker * 2016:

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– Best Outside Spiker * 2017:

– Best Outside Spiker * 2017: CSV South American Championship – Best Outside Spiker * 2017:

FIVB World Grand Champions Cup The FIVB Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior men's and women's national teams of the members of ' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The tournament was created in 1993 af ...

– Best Outside Spiker * 2017:

– Most Valuable Player * 2021: CSV South American Championship – Best Outside Spiker

References

External links

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Player profile
at ''LegaVolley.it''
Player profile
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