TEAM COMPOSITION

ARG / Argentina - Team Composition

Team manager	Facundo Rizzone
Head coach	Javier Weber
Assistant coach	Juan Manuel Barrial
Doctor	Gabriel Solari
Therapist / trainer	Flavio Leoni
Journalist	Martín De Rose

	No.	Name	Lastname	Shirt Name	Birthdate	Height	Weight	Spike	Block
	2	Ivan	Castellani	CASTELLANI	19.01.1991	196	82	336	320
	7	Facundo	Conte	CONTE	25.08.1989	198	90	350	326
	8	Maximiliano	Cavanna	CAVANNA	02.07.1988	185	79	314	300
C	9	Rodrigo	Quiroga	QUIROGA	23.03.1987	190	87	345	321
	10	Nicolas	Bruno	BRUNO	24.02.1989	188	84	338	308
	11	Sebastian	Solé	SOLE	12.06.1991	202	88	350	328
	12	Federico	Pereyra	PEREYRA	19.06.1988	200	99	335	325
	13	Cristian	Poglajen	POGLAJEN	14.07.1989	195	93	346	320
	14	Pablo	Crer	CRER	12.06.1989	205	78	350	330
	15	Luciano	De Cecco	DE CECCO	02.06.1988	193	89	333	315
L	16	Alexis	González	GONZALEZ A.	21.07.1981	184	83	321	300
	17	Mariano	Giustiniano	GIUSTINIANO	04.04.1986	189	91	335	318
L	18	Franco	López	LOPEZ	04.02.1989	187	79	320	300
	19	Maximiliano	Gauna	GAUNA	29.04.1989	197	93	338	320

C=Captain L=Libero

Team profile

Javier Weber, in his third year as coach, continues to bring growth to Argentina. They qualified to this year’s World League Finals and finished in a very creditable fourth place (Argentina’s best ever World League result) after a semifinal loss to Brazil and bronze medal match loss to Poland. They also lost to Brazil in the final of this year’s South American Championship.

Argentina had a historic 2009, with a strong campaign in the World League (fifth), qualification for the World Championship and a runner-up finish in the South American Championship. The South Americans hosted the 2010 World League Finals before Weber reorganized the team at last year's World Championship, putting faith in his young players, and the move paid off as they finished ninth. Facundo Conte shone and Rodrigo Quiroga easily slotted into the captain's role. Luciano De Cecco surprised with wonderful setting, Alexis González showed that he deserved his place as libero and supporting them were Lucas Ocampo, Federico Pereyra, Pablo Crer and the very young Sebastian Solé.

Previous key results include a bronze medal at the World Championships in Buenos Aires in 1982, bronze at the Seoul Olympics in 1988, while in the Pan American Games, they have earned one gold and three bronze medals.

Coach profile

Javier Weber became Argentina coach in 2009. With 613 caps as a setter for Argentina (1985-2002) Weber played in some of their greatest triumphs, including bronze at the 1988 Olympics, gold at the 1995 Pan Am Games, and three Olympic and five World Championship campaigns. Weber found coaching success in Brazil’s Superliga (2002) before returning to Argentina in 2006 to lead Bolivar to two national league titles. Under Weber’s guidance this year Argentina finished an historic fourth in the World League and second in the South American Championship.