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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
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MartÃn 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
197
88
354
334
8
Maximiliano
Cavanna
Cavanna
02.07.1988
188
81
333
312
C
9
Rodrigo
Quiroga
Quiroga R
23.03.1987
191
83
336
316
10
Nicolas
Bruno
Bruno
24.02.1989
187
85
338
318
11
Sebastian
Solé
Sole
12.06.1991
200
94
362
342
12
Federico
Pereyra
Pereyra
19.06.1988
200
99
335
325
13
Cristian
Poglajen
Poglajen
14.07.1989
195
94
342
322
14
Pablo
Crer
Crer
12.06.1989
202
85
357
337
15
Luciano
De Cecco
De Cecco
02.06.1988
191
98
332
315
L
16
Alexis Ruben
Gonzalez
Gonzalez A.
21.07.1981
184
85
327
310
17
Mariano
Giustiniano
Giustiniano
04.04.1986
189
91
335
318
L
18
Franco
López
Lopez
04.02.1989
187
79
326
304
19
Maximiliano
Gauna
Gauna
20.04.1989
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.
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