Trento, 05 July 2024

The summer market closed with one last big: the middle blocker Flavio Gualberto!

The summer market of Itas Trentino men's team, the European Champions, has the most significant and eagerly awaited purchase at its tail end. Starting from late September, Brazilian middle blocker Flavio Resende Gualberto will complete the starting line-up for the 2024/25 SuperLega Credem Banca season.
The agreement signed between the Club and the 31-year-old golden-green athlete from Pimenta is on a two-year basis and will allow coach Fabio Soli to have another world-class player at the centre of the net. Flavio Resende Gualberto, known to the entire volleyball world simply as Flavio, is a great interpreter of his role, with attack and block being his strong points. He will guarantee Itas Trentino quality and all the experience he has gained on the international stage, thanks to the many competitions played with the Brazil jersey (with which he won five senior and four youth titles) but also in the Italian championship. The coming season will in fact be his fourth overall in SuperLega Credem Banca, in which he made his debut in 2021 with Vibo Valentia, before moving a year later to Perugia, with which in the last ten months he won the World Club Championship, the Scudetto, the Coppa Italia, and the Supercoppa. Statistics tell the story of Flavio's value so far in all the competitions played in Italy: 712 points scored in three years, with 174 blocks, 18 aces, and 63.7% in attack. In the VNL 2024 concluded last weekend, he was the third best blocker of the tournament with 33 points, seven more than his future teammate Kozamernik.
“At the end of last season, I thought I would return to play in Brazil, but when Trento called me, I gladly changed plans - Flavio Gualberto revealed - . I did not think twice; I signed the contract and I will defend the colours of a Club with a great tradition and that has always been competitive over time. Playing and training at a high level has always been one of my most important goals, and here I will be able to do it with consistency. Our team will start from an important base because only one element of the starting line-up will change, and therefore it will immediately be able to produce a large volume of play. I will try to offer further value by putting my best foot forward at every opportunity”.
“Flavio Gualberto is one of the absolute strongest players in his role at world level – his new coach Fabio Soli emphasised - and I am certainly not discovering this today, it is the facts that confirm it. We welcome him to Trento with open arms, convinced that he will be able to guarantee us quality not only in matches but also during the whole week of training, and this will allow him to quickly become part of a group that is very dedicated to hard work. In terms of technical characteristics, he is a complete middle blocker, whose best fundamentals are attack and block”.
He will be the eighth Brazilian player in the more than twenty-year history of Trentino Volley men’s team, after Heller, Nascimento, Riad, Raphael, Vissotto, Eder Carbonera, and Lucarelli; he will also wear the yellow-blue jersey number 23, never before used by any other player in Trento. It’s the same number he has on his shoulders when he wears the Seleçao uniform, with which he will play his first Olympics in a few weeks.

Identikit
FLAVIO RESENDE GUALBERTO
born in Pimenta (Brazil), on 22 April 1993
200 cm, role: Middle blocker
2009/12 Minas Tenis Clube - Brazil
2012/13 Olympico Mart Minas/Up Time - Brazil
2013/14 Fiat Minas - Brazil
2014/15 Fiat Minas - Brazil
2015/16 Fiat Minas - Brazil
2016/17 Fiat Minas - Brazil
2017/18 Fiat Minas - Brazil
2018/19 Fiat Minas - Brazil
2019/20 Sesc-RJ - Brazil
2020/21 Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie - Poland
2021/22 Tonno Callipo Calabria Vibo Valentia SuperLega
2022/23 Sir Safety Susa Perugia SuperLega
2023/24 Sir Susa Vim Perugia SuperLega
2024/26 Itas Trentino SuperLega

Palmares
2 Club World Championships (2022, 2023)
1 South American Championship (2014)
1 Italian Championship (2024)
1 Carioca Championship (2020)
1 Coppa Italia (2024)
2 Supercoppa Italiana (2022, 2023)
Best Middle Blocker South American Championship (2019)
Best Player Carioca Championship (2020)
Best Middle Blocker Club World Championship (2022)
Best Middle Blocker Libertadores Cup (2020)
Best Middle Blocker Carioca Championship (2020)

In the national team
154 appearances with Brazil
Gold Medal World Cup 2019
Gold Medal VNL 2021
Gold Medal Pan-American Cup 2015
Gold Medal South American Championship 2019 and 2021
Pan American Under-19 Cup Gold Medal 2011
Under 23 Pan American Cup Gold Medal 2012
Gold Medal South American Under 23 Championship 2014
Gold Medal World Military Championship 2014
Silver Medal Pan American Games 2015
Silver Medal Pan-American Cup 2018
Silver Medal World Under-21 Championship 2012
Bronze Medal World Cup 2022
Best Middle Blocker South American Championship 2019
Best Middle Blocker Pan American Cup 2015 and 2018
Best Blocker Pan American Cup 2015
South American Under-19 Championship 2010
Best Middle Blocker South American Under-23 Championship 2014

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