TEAM COMPOSITION

BRA / Brazil

Team manager	Mariana d`Aragona
Coach	Roberley Leonaldo
Assistant coach	Giuliano Ribas
2nd assistant coach	Sidnei Papke
Doctor	Ricardo Yanasse
Physiotherapist	Alexandre Oliveira

	No.	Name	Lastname	Shirt Name	Birthdate	Height	Weight	Spike	Block	Club
	1	Alan	Souza	Alan	21.03.1994	198	80	336	320	Sada Cruzeiro Volei
	2	Fernando	Kreling	Fernando	13.01.1996	183	89	320	302	Ucs/Caxias
	4	Otavio Henrique	Pinto	Otavio	27.02.1991	201	93	345	327	Minas Tenis Clube
	6	Lucas Eduardo	Loh	Lucas	18.01.1991	195	83	336	320	Minas Tenis Clube
	7	Thiago	Veloso	Thiago	15.08.1993	184	77	313	294	Sesi
C	8	Ricardo	Lucarelli Santos De Souza	Lucarelli	14.02.1992	195	79	338	308	SESI
	11	Ary	De Souza Nóbrega Neto	Ary	10.07.1991	197	67	339	312	SESI
	12	Matheus	Cunda	Matheus	01.12.1991	208	93	338	322	Santo Andre
	13	Leandro	Santos	Leandro	13.01.1993	197	80	335	320	Sesi Sao Paulo
	14	Rafael	Araujo	Rafael Araujo	13.06.1991	206	93	348	325	Taubaté
	15	Ricardo Alexandre Gomes	Rego Junior	Ricardo	09.01.1991	203	87	336	313	BMG São Bernardo
	19	Guilherme	Kachel	Kachel	20.05.1991	189	78	333	318	Sada Cruzeiro Volei

C=Captain L=Libero

Team profile

Brazil has gathered a group of young talent from the youth and junior national teams, such as Alan Souza (top scorer of the 2013 Men’s Under 21 Championship) and Ricardo Lucarelli (age 21) who played for the Brazil national team in this year’s World League, South American Championship and Pan-American Cup.

Lucarelli was nominated captain of the Men’s U23 team and is definitely a player to look out for in the competition. There is a great deal of experience among this promising group of youngsters as 14 of the 15 young men who joined the team for this inaugural age-group tournament, currently play for a club in Brazil’s Super League.

Coach profile

Roberley Luiz Leonaldo (Rubinho) was born in Curitiba (one of the largest Southern Brazilian cities), where he began his career in volleyball. He then moved to Sao Paulo taking up the position of assistant coach at the club formerly known as Banespa, working alongside coach Mauro Grasso from 2002-2006. The club took the Superleague title in 2004. Rubinho later took over the team from Mauro Grasso, seeing it through two name changes, the Brazil Volleyball Club and then São Bernardo Volleyball.

On the national team front, Rubens has worked for the men’s youth team that took the World Championship title in 2001. In 2006, he became assistant coach to Bernardo Rezende on Brazil’s men’s national team helping them to four World League wins, (2006/2007/2009/2010), two World Championship titles (2006/2010), two Pan American Cup wins (2007/2011), a win at the 2007 World Cup Championship and silver medals at the Beijing (2008) and London (2012) Olympic Games.