Trento, 22 July 2020
Trentino Volley made a fantastic deal: here is the Brazilian Ricardo Lucarelli!
Another top player for Trentino volley! Trentino volley has done what can be considered the main deal of the year for the entire SuperLega. For the next two seasons, the formidable Brazilian spiker Ricardo Lucarelli Santos De Souza will wear the yellow-blue t-shirt!
The arrival of Ricardo will allow the new roster to have another star player, ready to inflame the Trentino public with his attacks, ace and break points. The 28-year-old green-gold spiker has for years been one of the strongest and most complete athletes on the planet; never before had he left his country to play in a foreign club. The prestige of Trentino Volley together with the yellow-blue project and the possibility to compete for the final victory of the Italian SuperLega convinced him. Lucarelli will be the seventh Brazilian to wear the yellow-blue jersey, after Heller, Riad, Andrè Nascimento, Eder, Vissotto and Raphael, with whom he has shared the last seasons at Funvic Taubatè.
"With the arrival of Ricardo Santos De Souza, better known as Lucarelli and for our friends simply "Luca", we close our summer trading season completing a very important roster - explained the President of Trentino Volley Diego Mosna - . We are ready to live a great season if the Covid-19 will allow us, showing up at the starting line with one of the strongest teams in the entire SuperLega. So, I want to welcome Lucarelli to Trentino Volley on behalf of the Board of Directors but also on behalf of the fans, who I'm sure will not lack their fundamental support. The arrival of Lucarelli is one more reason to stay close to our Club and to subscribe the TRENTINONELCUORE Card, an initiative that we launched just in these days".
Lucarelli will arrive in Trento in August; after winning everything with the Brazilian Şeleçao jersey. Now he wants to try to leave his mark in Europe too: Trentino Volley and its fans are waiting for him to start a new season together.
The profile
RICARDO LUCARELLI SANTOS DE SOUZA
born in Contagem (Brasile), on February 14, 1992
196 cm, spiker
2007/10 Linhares – Brazil
2010/11 Minas Tenis Clube - Brazil
2011/12 Minas Tenis Clube – Brazil
2012/13 Minas Tenis Clube - Brazil
2013/14 Sesi Sao Paulo – Brazil
2014/15 Sesi Sao Paulo – Brazil
2015/16 Funvic Taubatè – Brazil
2016/17 Funvic Taubatè – Brazil
2017/18 Funvic Taubatè – Brazil
2018/19 Funvic Taubatè – Brazil
2019/20 Funvic Taubatè – Brazil
2020/21 Itas Trentino SuperLega
Palmares
1 Brazilian Championship (2019)
Best player Brazilian Championship (2019)
Best Brazilian Championship spiker (2019)
National team
197 appearances with the Brazilian National Team
Gold Medal at the 2016 Olympics
Gold Medal at the World Grand Champions Cup 2013, 2016
Gold Medal at the World Cup 2019
Gold Medal at South American Championship 2013, 2015, 2017
Gold Medal at the Under 23 World Championship 2013
Silver Medal at the 2014 World Cup
Silver Medal at the World League 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017
Best player of the Under 23 World Cup 2013
Best player of the World Grand Champions Cup 2017
Best crusher of the Olympics 2016
Best World League spiker 2013, 2014, 2017
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