Brazil - Superliga 2019/2020

Participating Teams:

EMS Funvic/Taubaté

SESI-SP

Sada Cruzeiro

SESC-RJ

Fiat/Minas

Vôlei Renata

Copel Telecom/Maringá

Vôlei UM/Itapetininga

São Francisco Saúde/Ribeirão Preto

América-MG Vôlei

Botafogo

APAN Blumenau Vôlei

EMS Funvic/Taubaté

Coach:

Renan Dal Zotto

Setters:

Raphael Oliveira

Eduardo Carísio

Opposites:

Mohamed Al Hachdadi

Leandro Vissotto

Outside Hitters:

Ricardo Lucarelli

Douglas Souza

Felipe "Lipe" Fonteles

Renan Bonora (also L)

Middle Blockers:

Maurício Souza

Lucas "Pétrus" Saatkamp

Pétrus Montes

Libero:

Thales Hoss

Rogério "Rogerinho" Batista

SESI-SP

Coach:

Roberley "Rubinho" Leonaldo

Setters:

William Arjona

Matheus Brasília

Opposites:

Alan Souza

Daniel Bala

Outside Hitters:

Lucas Lóh

Victor Birigui

Fábio Rodrigues

Murilo Endres (also L)

Alan Patrick

Middle Blockers:

Éder Carbonera

Sidney "Sidão" dos Santos

Gabriel Bertolini

Lucas Barreto

Libero:

Douglas Pureza

Felipe "Felipinho" Leme

Sada Cruzeiro

Coach:

Marcelo Mendez

Setters:

Fernando Cachopa

Rodrigo "Rodriguinho" Leme

Opposites:

Evandro Guerra

Luan Weber

Outside Hitters:

Facundo Conte
Gordon Perrin

Rodrigo "Rodriguinho" Leão

Filipe Ferraz

Middle Blockers:

Isac Viana

Otávio Pinto

Cledenilson Batista

Éder Levi

Libero:

Lucas "Lukinha" Provenzano

Lucas Bauer

Sesc-RJ

Coach:

Giovane Gávio

Setters:

Marlon Yared

Matias Sanchez

Opposites:

Wallace Souza

Daniel Cagliari

Outside Hitters:

Maurício Borges

Gabriel Pessoa
Jan Martinez

José Ademar

Middle Blockers:

Flávio Gualberto

Gustavo "Gustavão" Bonatto

Tiago Barth

Libero:

Tiago Brendle

Alexandre Elias

Fiat/Minas

Coach:

Nery Tambeiro

Setters:

Rodrigo Ribeiro

Bernardo Westermann

Opposites:

Felipe Roque

Davy Silva

Outsite Hitters:

Henrique Honorato
Lucas Ocampo
Nicolas Lazo

Middle Blockers:

Deivid Júnior

Matheus Bispo

Matheus Cunda

Libero:

Maique Reis

Felipe Lourenço

Vôlei Renata

Coach:

Horácio Dileo

Setters:

Demian González

Matheus Bonora

Opposites:

Renan Buiatti

Outside Hitters

Bruno Canuto

Gabriel Vaccari

Middle Blockers:

Luiz "Luizinho" Sene

Michel Saraiva

Libero:

Sérgio "Serginho" Dutra

Copel Telecom/Maringá

Coach:

Alessandro Fadul

Setters:

Opposites:

Outside Hitters:

Middle Blockers:

Libero:

Fábio Paes

Daniel Rossi

Vôlei Itapetininga

Coach:

Pedro "Peu" Uehara

Setters:

Everaldo Lucena

Opposites:

Paulo Victor

Outside Hitters:

Diogo Silva

Djalma Ribeiro

Middle Blockers:

Wennder Carlos

Libero:

Gian Moraes

América Vôlei

Coach:

Henrique Furtado

Setters:

Rhendrick Resley

Opposites:

Welinton Oppenkoski

Outside Hitters:

Thiago Alves

Felipi Rammé

Jonatas Cardoso

Middle Blockers:

Pedro "Pedrão" Santos

Renan Michelucci

Libero:

Guilherme Kachel

São Francisco Saúde/Vôlei Ribeirão

Coach:
Marcos Pacheco

Setters:

Opposites:

Outside Hitters:

Middle Blockers:

Libero:

Diego Aparecido

Botafogo

Coach:
Mauro Nei

Setters:

Pedro Teles

Opposites:

Fabrício "Lorena" Dias

Outside Hitters:

Leonardo "Leozinho" Nascimento

Hugo Hamacher

Middle Blockers:

Victor Hugo

Riad Ribeiro

Libero:

Mário Júnior

Filipe "Filipinho" Stolberg

APAN Blumenau Vôlei

Coach:

Setters:

Opposites:

Outside Hitters:

Middle Blockers:

Libero: 

Quote from forzalube

I should have missed something.

What is América Vôlei?

I'll try to explain it the best I can. Until 2017/2018, the league had a team from Montes Claros. They've kept their spot in the league since then, but lost sponsorship and couldn't compete anymore. Therefore, they gave the rights to Corinthians (Serginho's team) in the 2018/2019 season. However, Montes Claros decided to sell the rights to another team in the upcoming 2019/2020 season, that team being América Vôlei. América is a traditional football/soccer club that's trying to venture in volleyball.

About Corinthians, just to make things clearer: they never won a spot to compete in Superliga. In 2017/2018, they were playing using the spot left by São Bernardo, as SB didn't have sponsorship and an able team to compete. In 2018/2019, however, São Bernardo decided to reclaim their spot and competed as São Judas Vôlei, which left Corinthians hanging dry until Montes Claros gave their spot to them. Corinthians will now have a much lower budget and will try to win their actual spot in Superliga by competing in the B league.

Hope this is understandable lol

Quote from forzalube

All clear thanks.

Just missed the fact that Montes Claros decided to give their spot to this new team. When that is happened? Last week? 1 month ago?

Pretty much a month ago, yeah. I thought of writing something about it here, but didn't think anyone would care lol

América is shaping up to be a very young team. Rammé (22yo), Rhendrick (20yo) and Oppenkoski (19yo) have just been confirmed by them, as well as other ones that got announced previously: Michelucci (25yo), Pedrão (25yo) and Kachel (28yo). Coach is Henrique Furtado, who's a promising guy that's been working with smaller teams from Minas Gerais these last few seasons. I hope they manage to perform decently!

Meanwhile, we haven't heard anything from some of the smaller teams so far, namely Maringá, Ribeirão Preto and Blumenau, which is worrisome but pretty standard at this point I guess. Market for the male Superliga tends to be so, so slow...

Botafogo is likely shutting down, just 2 weeks before the beginning of the season. The club is in deep financial crisis and hasn't paid players since July. Plenty of players have already left for other teams (Hugo moved to Sada, Leozinho went all the way to Turkey, Pedro joined Ribeirão Preto, etc). It remains unknown what's gonna happen with their spot in Superliga.

I'll see if I can update all rosters this week.

ETA: Botafogo has officially withdrawn from Superliga. Yikes.