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Famous
People in Volleyball
Bernardo Rocha de
Rezende
Certainly there are famous people in
volleyball - one of them is coach Mr. Bernardo Rocha de Rezende
from Brazil. Mr. Rezende, known as Bernardinho, (Rio de Janeiro, May
28, 1959) has been the coach of the winning Brazilian men’s national
team since 2001.
The
Volleyball History of
Coach Rezende:
Coaching legend Rezende played volleyball from
1979 until
1986, representing Brazil is several international competitions. In
1988 Bernardinho took his first steps in his coaching career. He was a
technical assistant for Bebeto de Freitas at the Seoul Olympics in 1988.
Rezende
trained women’s volleyball in Perugia (Italy), where he stayed until
1992. The following year, he took coaching responsibilities for the
men’s team in Modena, Italy. Then Bernardinho returned to Brazil and
year 1994 he took the lead of the Brazilian Women’s Volleyball team
until year 2000.
 Brazilian
men’s volleyball team had been underperforming for a
while and wanted to do changes after a disappointing sixth place year
2000 in Olympics. Rezende who had spent six years coaching the women’s
national team, was
chosen to be the new head coach of the Brazilian men’s national team in
2001.
Already in Rezende’s first season the Brazilian team
achieved gold medals in major international competitions (World League,
South American Championships) and one silver medal (World Grand
Champions Cup).
Coach Rezende Becoming the Best Volleyball Coach Ever
Since
then Brazlian men’s volleyball
team with the lead
of Rezende has won nearly all the international tournaments, including
- Olympic Games in 2004
- World
Championship 2002 and 2006
- World League
titles in 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007
More Famous
People in Volleyball - Coach Rezende's Players
There are rumors Rezende resigning from the men’s national
team and
a new
generation of
players
will be taking over in the great volleyball team of Brazil after the
Beijing Olympic Games 2008. Make sure you’ll watch them in Beijing 2008
– those could
be the last moments to see one of the greatest volleyball teams ever
again.
Below there is an introduction of some of the most famous volleyball
players in 2000's. We introduce some players of Coach
Rezende and the great volleyball team of Brazil.
Volleyball
Quotes from the Famous
People in Volleyball - Coach Rezende
Through
his accomplishments Rezende has become a coaching legend. Some
secrets behind his success can be drawn of some of his following quotes:
Fivb, international volleyball governing body, described Rezende “For
Brazil coach Bernardo Rezende, perfection and satisfaction are
unreachable goals in a never-ending quest.”
“Everybody has to respect the moral principles and no one can consider
himself more important than the team.”
“After the first very important victories, the biggest problem was to
overcome the changing environment around the team. If the players
change their attitude, loosing the firm discipline - the winning squads
suddenly disappear."
More
Volleyball Quotes from Coach Rezende
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