BEST PLAYERS IN BRAZIL VOLLEYBALL HISTORY. 5. Wallace Leandro de Souza (born 26 June 1987), known by the mononym Wallace, is a Brazilian volleyball player, member of the Brazil men's national volleyball team, 2016 Olympic Champion, silver medallist of the Olympic Games (London 2012), 2014 and 2018 World Championship, three–time South American Champion (2011, 2013, 2017).
4. Lucas Saatkamp (born 6 March 1986) is a Brazilian volleyball player and a two-time Olympian. As a member of the Brazilian national volleyball team, he won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, and a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Saatkamp won a gold medal with the Brazilian national team at the 2010 World Championship, won a silver medal at the 2014 and 2018 World Championships, and has won numerous medals at the World League.
Saatkamp has played in numerous professional teams throughout his career, mostly in Brazil.
3. Bruno Mossa de Rezende (born 2 July 1986) is a Brazilian professional volleyball player who is currently a member of Brazil men's national volleyball team and Italian club Modena Volley.
The son of the legendary Brazilian coach Bernardo Rezende, he is one of the world's most accomplished setters and volleyball players. His accomplishments include: 2016 Olympic Champion, double silver medalist of the Olympic Games (Beijing 2008, London 2012), 2010 World Champion, double gold medalist of the World Grand Champions Cup (2009, 2013), South American Champion (2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2021), multimedalist of the World League, Pan American Games, Brazilian Champion (2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013), Italian Champion (2016, 2019).
2. Sérgio Dutra dos Santos, known as Serginho or Escadinha (born 15 October 1975) is a Brazilian former volleyball player and four-time Olympian. As a member of the Brazilian national volleyball team, he won gold medals at the 2004 and 2016 Olympics, and silver medals at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
Additionally, Serginho is a two-time World Champion (2006, 2010), and a multimedalist of the World League, South American Championship, World Cup, and the Grand Champions Cup. In 2009, he became the first libero to be named Most Valuable Player in the history of the FIVB World League.
1. Gilberto Amauri de Godoy Filho, known as Giba (born 23 December 1976), is a Brazilian former professional volleyball player who played as an outside hitter. For much of the 2000s, he was widely regarded as one of the best volleyball players in the world. During his professional career he played in Brazil, Italy, Russia, Argentina and briefly in the United Arab Emirates. He is mostly remembered for his successes with the national team.
With the Brazilian National Team he won a total of 8 South American Championships, 3 America's Cups, 8 World League titles, 3 World Grand Champions Cups, three World Championships (2002, 2006, 2010), a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and two silver medals at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, where he was the team's captain.[2]
During summer 2014, Giba retired from professional volleyball at the age of 37.
Lots of different directions, you've got to be ready to move off the hands.
Oh, what an angle from Wallace.
Well, he's good through the right-hand side and he's just shown he's
equally as good on the left-hand side.
I don't think there's any defending that ball.
No, with the serve.
And the big gun for the other team, Brazil.
Wallace puts that one away.
Yeah, I'm surprised the middle for Poland there was in a full commit.
Knowing that Wallace is out there and he's their gun at this point,
they want to go to him.
You've got to pay him some love.
Two-point game there.
Right with it here, Portugal.
Wallace.
Giga frustrated, but Wallace is...
The first step of three is slow.
The next two and...
Excellent.
Again, Wallace, just a couple of steps, a hop and a massive swing.
Here's his super spike once again.
Wallace.
Bogdanovic's got a lot of work to do there.
It's always second best.
They'll go for another one of those backcourt attacks that's successful.
That all came off the serve.
That was all about the chaos that the serve caused on the other side here.
Two guys going for it and any time that happens, watch out.
Brilliant bit of serving that has Conte and Donati both taken out of...
Commissioned right there.
Initiative, swing.
Rolo can set right on the net.
Backcourt attack from Wallace.
And too much power for Poland to deal with.
Two-handed push in, right?
Absolutely, no.
Not at all.
Only from the setters when they do things like that.
With that absolutely phenomenal shoot ball to the middle.
The speed of that ball from Kachopa.
Lucas with his second point of the game.
Lucas Sankamp.
Gold medal in the 2016 Olympics.
Silver in the 2012 with Flavia with a serve here.
Great pass.
Activate the middles but a good reception here.
A good dig coming from Brazil.
And back against Parkinson.
They need to stretch Parkinson and Plac so that Lucas is having to move laterally
a little bit more than he is here.
He just lined up Parkinson.
Look at that, he's not had to go anywhere.
Triple change.
Will it work out for the Netherlands?
Look at that backslide there.
Andringa with that pick up.
And straight into here.
Good to Mart.
But Brazil stop it.
And all of a sudden we're at set point.
There'll be three of them here for the Brazilians.
Didn't quite work out that switch from Piazza.
I know.
Darlan makes it a two-point lead once again for Brazil.
Kamen kneeling as he set that one up for Jordan.
Picked up by Flavio Fernando.
Oh, what a set for Lucas who puts it away.
Classic Brazil.
Getting that middle run in transition.
But he just knows.
Just knows that this works so often.
It's so good.
Oh, great serving.
Spectacular serving from Lucas.
Lucas is like, oh, at last.
He's 6'10", so he's getting it from such a high angle.
Creating a lot of velocity.
He changes up the pace entirely.
Ball out of the middle.
Flavio.
And Bruno.
Man, he makes one-handed sets look so easy.
To be able to put it on the money like that to your middle.
Mistakes on challenges.
Overpass.
Was nice.
Kept him.
Beautiful from Bruno.
I apologize, Bruno.
That looked like that was drifting over.
He took it so high in the net.
Beautiful hands.
And that's so left.
Otavio with a free swing cross-court.
Can Bruno mix it up now with the serve?
You could actually feel everybody waiting
for what the result was going to be.
If it was going to be in or out.
Even DiCecco said, yep, that was in.
From one setter to another for one great...
Reception.
One-handed.
Lucas.
Touched over that defense by Mauricio Sousa.
Wasn't what they were looking for.
And that's going to go long.
Oh, captain play.
Such slick play at the net.
Well, if Russia look...
Might be a swing here, though, for Brazil for the set.
Oh, they've done it.
Brilliant set.
Sousa hammers away the...
What was it?
Antonio gets it again.
But he's put into transition by Brazil's block.
And they come straight back with the backcourt pipe.
Mauricio putting it away.
Mauricio was already on the move.
Bruno picking up his timing.
Excellent set.
Bruno using that positive set.
The energy of the ball...
Mauricio.
Good up by Sergio.
Nice dig by Sergio.
And a clever play from Lucarelli.
That's what he said.
He said, we know if we just hang in.
We know Russia can and will make mistakes at the end of matches.
Touch off the top.
Dug by Dziba.
Marillo.
Change of pace.
Not a lot of heat on that ball.
I would not be surprised if Daniele Bagnoli called an early timeout.
Russia has come out very stagnant and very flat.
And you could see Volkov and Kazakov, as I thought, back in the lineup in the middle.
Russia can't put a ball to the floor.
Chichukin.
Oh, what a dig by Dziba.
Tight pass.
And Visoto over the top.
All Brazil right now.
Looking for the 5-0 lead.
Mikhailov.
Dziba everywhere.
Oh, they let that ball drop.
Volkov.
Sadao again.
No.
Dziba over the top into the deep cross-court corner.
Dziba's been bothered by a lot of injuries the last year, so he had a very severe...
