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Brazil - Marco Aurélio Motta
Marco
Aurélio Motta started to play Volleyball
at the age of 14 for the Botafogo Club
where he played for six years. In 1982 he
began his career as a coach when Radmés
Lattari (the former Botafogo coach at that
time) asked him if he could substitute as
youth category coach. In 1984, he was in
charge of the Botafogo youth and senior
teams where he achieved his first national
title.
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in 1984, Motta began to coach the youth
and junior national teams. In 1985 his
team finished fourth in the Junior World
Championship and two years later Motta won
his first international title in the
Junior World Championship in Korea
In 1991, he led Rioforte to the Brazilian
national championship, after which Motta
went to Italy where he coached the
national teams from 1991 to 1996. He was
responsible for the biggest revival in
Italian Volleyball and built the base of
the current national team in the country.
In 2001 he accepted the invitation to head
the Brazilian women's national team and
proceeded to triumph at a World
Championship qualifying tournament and the
South American Championship in Argentina.
Last year's fourth placing in the World
Grand Prix and seventh place finish in the
World Championship in Germany
weren't the results Brazilian fans had
come to expect but a third placing at the
Montreux Masters earlier this year bodes
well for Motta and his team.
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