Alison Conte Cerutti (born 7 December 1985) is a Brazilian

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player. He plays as a blocker. In 2011, along with

Emanuel Rego Emanuel Fernando Sheffer Rego (born April 15, 1973) is a male beach volleyball player from Brazil, who competed in five consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. He won the gold medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2004 Summer Ol ...

he won the

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."Brazilian tandems invincible in Beijing Grand Slam men's Main Draw".
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Online — English'', 6/09/2011. and the silver medal at the

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. He won the gold medal at the 2015 World Championships in

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. and the gold medal at the

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in Rio alongside teammate

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. In 2019, Alison partnered with

Álvaro Morais Filho Álvaro Magliano de Morais Filho (born November 27, 1990 in João Pessoa, Paraíba) is a Brazilian male beach volleyball player. Early in his adolescence, Álvaro liked to play soccer. By the influence of his father, who practices beach volleyb ...

. The team won their first gold medal at the FIVB Kuala Lumpur event. The duo also competed in the Tokyo 2020 journey. Since 2021 Alison is playing with Guto Carvalhaes.

Career

Alison initially played volleyball in the hall, before he came at the age of 16 years as a training partner of

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for beach volleyball. At first, he felt cumbersome and was nicknamed "Mammoth" after a character from the movie

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. In October 2006, he played his first tournaments on the FIVB World Tour with

Harley Marques Harley Marques Silva (born 6 July 1974 in Rio de Janeiro) is a beach volleyball player from Brazil. Team Harley – Pedro, was placed as #5 on the international Olympic ranking for the 2008 Summer Olympics, but did not qualify because of the tw ...

. After the duo was still inferior to the "Country Quota" in Vitória, they landed a ninth place at the Acapulco Open. Together with Bernardo Romano, Alison got third in the 2007 Challenger tournament in Cyprus and reached the main draw in

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. Alison / Romano achieved the same the following year in Stare Jabłonki. Then they won successively the Challenger tournaments in

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and

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and the satellite tournament in

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. At the Grand Slam in

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, Alison played with Emanuel Rego and finished third. With Bernardo Romano he was ninth in

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. The last two tournaments of the year he completed with Pedro Cunha. After a fifth place in

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Alison / Pedro won the Manama Open against the French Andy and Kevin Cès. In 2009, Alison played again with

. At the first tournament in

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, Alison / Harley reached the final, which they lost to Emanuel / Ricardo. In the final of

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, it came to the next Brazilian duel in the final, they won against Cunha / Solberg. After a third place in

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they succeeded in

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and won the next tournament victory against the US duo Matthew Fuerbringer / Jennings. At the World Championships in

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, they reached the quarter-finals without losing any set. With two tiebreak victories against Fuerbringer / Jennings and the German duo Klemperer / Koreng they qualified for the final, in which they were up against to the German duo Brink / Reckermann. Later in the World Tour, Alison / Harley remained in the top ten in all tournaments. Another final they reached at the Grand Slam in

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against Dalhausser / Rogers. They finished the series as World Tour Champions. In 2010, Alison played a duo with

. In the first three tournaments of the World Tour 2010, it each time came to a duel with Rogers / Dalhausser. In

and

, the Brazilians each time lost in the final. In

, they defeated the Americans in the match for third place. After a fourth place in

and a ninth place in

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Alison / Emanuel lost also the final of

against Rogers / Dalhausser. In

, they missed the top ten of a FIVB tournament for the only time in their career together. Then they finished third in

and

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and fifth in Stare Jabłonki. In the first tournament of the World Tour 2011 they lost again against Rogers / Dalhausser in the final. At the Prague Open, they then succeeded to revenge and in

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they won the Grand Slam in the final against Brink / Reckermann. At the World Cup in

, they were unbeaten in the semifinals in which they won against the German defending champions. Then they also won the final against Márcio Araújo and Ricardo Santos. After a fifth place in

, the new world champions continued their successful series with tournament victories in

(against Rogers / Dalhausser) and

(against the Swiss Bellaguarda / Heuscher). Then they had two third places in Stare Jabłonki and

. Alison / Emanuel became World Tour Champion and "Team of the Year" of the FIVB. Alison also received Best Blocker, Best Hitter and Best Offensive Player awards. In October Alison / Emanuel won in the final against Hernandez / Mussa from

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which earned them the gold medal at the

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. At the beginning of the World Tour 2012, they finished seventh in

, fifth in

and third in

. In

they lost the final against Pedro Cunha and Ricardo Santos. The final of Moscow, they then won against the Dutch Nummerdor / Schuil. In

and

, both times they won against the US duo Gibb / Rosenthal before they could prevail in

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against the same opponent. At the Olympic Games in

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, for which they had qualified as the best team in the Olympic rankings, they made it to the final unbeaten. There they lost against the German duo Brink / Reckermann and won the silver medal. With a fifth place at the Grand Slam in Stare Jabłonki they finished the season. On the World Tour 2013, they finished ninth in

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, fifth in

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and fourth in

. At the World Championships in Stare Jabłonki Alison / Emanuel reached the semifinals after six wins in a row and lost the final against Ricardo / Filho. The match about the third place they lost to the Germans Erdmann / Matysik. Then they reached two fifth and two ninth places. The Grand Slam in

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was their last joint FIVB tournament. Then Alison played the Grand Slam in

with Vitor Gonçalves Felipe, before the interim duo won the Grand Slam in Xiamen and finished ninth in

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. In 2014, Alison formed a new duo with

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, with whom he won the South American Games in

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in March and made the final at the Fuzhou Open the Italians Nicolai / Lupo. Apart from

, Alison / Bruno always landed in the top 10 at the World Tour 2014. They were, among other things, third in

and only lost the final in

against Dalhausser / Rosenthal. In the final of the Grand Slam in

they won their revenge against Nicolai / Lupo. The 2015 season began with a fourth-place finish in

. After finishing 17th in the Poreč Major, they finished in ninth place twice. At the World Cup in the

they the only lost one set until the finals. The final they won against the Dutch Nummerdor / Varenhorst. Alison became world champion for the second time. Subsequently, Alison / Bruno successively won the Gstaad Major and the Grand Slams in

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and

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. They also won the World Tour Final with a win against Dalhausser / Lucena. They became World Tour Champion and also received the "Team of the Year" award. At the beginning of the 2016 season Alison / Bruno won the Vitória Open in the final against Nicolai / Lupo after a fifth place in

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. The finals of the Grand Slams in

and

they lost against Nummerdor / Varenhorst and the Latvians Samoilovs / Šmēdiņš. In the next tournament in

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they succeeded against the Austrian duo Doppler / Horst and claimed the victory. As world champions they were set for the

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in Rio. There, despite a defeat against Doppler / Horst they won their group. With wins against Herrera / Gavira, Dalhausser / Lucena and the Dutch Brouwer / Robert Meeuwsen they made it to the finals and won 2–0 against Nicolai / Lupo in the finals. At the end of the season Alison / Bruno they also won the World Tour Final in

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. At the 2017 World Cup in

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, the Brazilians landed only in ninth place. After they couldn't catch up with their previous successes on the World Tour anymore, Alison and Bruno split in May 2018. Then Alison played alongside André Loyola Stein and since April 2019 he plays with

References

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