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Wilfredo León Venero (born 31 July 1993) is a Cuban–Polish professional volleyball player, member of the Cuba men's national volleyball team in 2007–2012 and a current member of the Poland men's national volleyball team and Italian club Sir Safety Perugia, silver medalist of the 2010 World Championship, NORCECA Champion (2009, 2011), Cuban Champion (2009, 2010, 2011), Russian Champion (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018).

Considered by many as one of a kind he led Cuba to the silver medal at the world championship 2010 in Italy, alongside Yoandi Leal and Robertlandy Simon considered one of the leaders of the "Generation of Miracle" of Cuba volleyball and by many experts, Leon may be one of the best players of all time considering all of the accomplishments he has made while still so young, having won every single title at pro level at the age of 24.

He started to play when he was 7. His first coach was his mother Alina. Wilfredo León Venero debuted in the Cuban national team on May 24, 2008 in Düsseldorf, aged 14 years and 10 months.He won the title of Best Receiver at World League 2009. On July 31, 2009 he won a silver medal in the World U21 Championship 2009 (after losing the final against Brazil). In 2009, the Cuban national team, with Leon, won the title of NORCECA Champion (and three individual awards) and repeated this success in 2011. After losing the final against Brazil, Cuba won a silver medal at the World Championship 2010. He was the youngest captain of the national team (he was 17). In 2012, he won bronze medal of World League - Sofia 2012.

In 2013, León fled Cuba to play in a club outside of their homeland. They lost the possibility of playing for the Cuba national team. He joined Russian club Zenit Kazan in 2014, where he won multiple CEV Champions League, national leagues and cups. He also played part-time with Qatar club Al Rayyan in 2015 and 2016. In September 2018, León joined Italian team SIR Safety Perugia.

On July 14, 2015 he received Polish citizenship, and five years later he became fully eligible to play for the Polish national volleyball team.

#WilfredoLeon #Poland #FIVB 

Yūki Ishikawa (石川祐希, born 11 December 1995) is a Japanese male professional volleyball player from Okazaki City, Aichi, Prefecture. He's a member of the Japan Men's National Volleyball Team, as one of its outside hitters. He currently plays in the Italian Volleyball League for the club, Power Volley Milano.

In 2014 and 2015, Ishikawa played for the Italian team Parmareggio Modena. He then returned to Japan to play professionally. In 2016, he played for the Italian club Top Volley Latina. During this time, he was an exchange student while actually still playing for his university. After graduating from Chuo University in 2018, he signed his first professional contract with the Italian team Emma Villas Siena.

Sporting achievements

Individually
2012 Asian Youth Championship – Best Scorer
2015 Memorial of Hubert Jerzy Wagner – Best Receiver
2015 FIVB World Cup – Best Outside Spiker
2015 FIVB World Cup – 4th Best Spiker
2016 1st World Olympic Qualification Tournament – 2nd Best Outside Spiker
2017 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship – 1st Best Outside Spiker
2017 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship – Most Valuable Player
2019 FIVB World Cup – Best Outside Spiker

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Yuji Nishida (西田 有志, Nishida Yūji, born 30 January 2000) is a Japanese male volleyball player.

Nationality : Japan
Position : Opposite
Birthdate : 2000-01-30
Height : 186cm
Weight : 82kg
Spike : 350cm
Block : 335cm
Dominant : handLeft

Nishida currently plays for JTEKT Stings, a volleyball club based in Kariya, Aichi, Japan. He made his debut with JTEKT Stings at V.League (Japan) on 6 January 2018 in a match against Osaka Blazers Sakail. His impressive debut at the young age of 17 soon earned him a position in JTEKT's Starting 6 as well as Japan men's national volleyball team.

He is one of the youngest players in the 2018 roster of the Japan men's national volleyball team and FIVB cup Final. He made his first international performance with the Japanese national team in 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League. In June 2018, he played a pivotal role in securing Japan's first win in 11 years against Italy where he collected 24 points from 21 spikes and 3 aces. In September 2018, in a match against Argentina in 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Nishida became the youngest player ever to score 30 points in a match. In June 2019, Nishida broke serving records in the VNL history after hitting 7 aces in a single game during a match against Bulgaria.

#YujiNishida #WorldCup2019 

Douglas Souza da Silva (born 20 August 1995) is a Brazilian volleyball player. He is part of the Brazil men's national volleyball team

The Brazil men's national volleyball team is governed by the Confederação Brasileira de Voleibol (Brazilian Volleyball Confederation) and takes part in international volleyball competitions. Brazil has three gold medals at the Olympic Games, won three times the World Championship and nine times the World League. Brazil is the #1 team on the FIVB World Rankings. The team is often referred to as volleyball's Dream Team #DouglasSouza 

#BartoszKurek (born 29 August 1988) is a Polish volleyball player, a member of the Poland men's national volleyball team. A participant of the Olympic Games (London 2012, Rio 2016), 2018 World Champion, 2009 European Champion, a gold medalist of the 2012 World League, silver medalist of the 2011 World Cup, bronze medalist of the 2011 World League, 2011 European Championship and 2015 World Cup, three–time Polish Champion (2009, 2010, 2011) and Italian Champion (2014). In 2019, he became the first volleyball player to be voted the Polish Sports Personality of the Year.

Kurek was in the Polish squad when the Polish national team won the gold medal at the European Championship 2009. On September 14, 2009 he was awarded Knight's Cross of Polonia Restituta. The Order was conferred on the following day by the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk. On July 10, 2011 Kurek, with his national team, won the Poland's first medal in the World League. They won bronze medal after defeating Argentina. Kurek received the award for Best Scorer of the finals tournament. Next for Poland was the European Championship 2011, where they were the defending champions. Kurek was his team's key player throughout the tournament and Polish national team won a second medal in 2011 – a bronze after winning the bronze medal match against Russia. At this tournament Kurek won his second individual award in 2011, for Best Server. In November 2011, despite a back injury, Kurek went to Japan to participate in the World Cup and helped his team win silver medal and therefore qualify for the Olympic Games. On July 8, 2012 the Polish team won gold medal of the World League 2012. Kurek received the award for Most Valuable Player. Kurek was one of the key players of the Polish team at the Olympic Games London 2012, but Poland lost in the quarterfinal against Russia and was eliminated from the tournament.

In 2014 he was a member of the Polish national team during the 2015 Men's European Volleyball Championship qualification, but then did not get a chance to play in the World League. He was not included in the Polish national team's 14-player roster for the World Championship, held in Poland.

After year of break, he came back to national team on May 28, 2015 during first match of intercontinental round of World League against Russia (3–0).He was top scorer of match (15 points). In 2016, Kurek played in Olympic Games Rio.
On September 30, 2018 Poland achieved title of the 2018 World Champion. Poland beat Brazil in the finale 3-0 and defended the title from 2014. Kurek received an individual award for the Most Valuable Player.

#MichałKubiak  #Poland 

Michał Kubiak (born 23 February 1988) is a Polish volleyball player, a member of the Polish national team and Japanese club Panasonic Panthers, a participant of the Olympic Games (London 2012, Rio 2016), 2014 and 2018 World Champion, a gold medalist of the 2012 World League, silver medalist of the 2011 World Cup, bronze medalist of the 2011 European Championship and the 2011 World League.

Artur Kacper Szalpuk (born 20 March 1995) is a Polish volleyball player, a member of the Poland men's national volleyball team and VERVA Warszawa ORLEN Paliwa, 2018 World Champion. On 2 April 2015 was appointed to the Polish national team by head coach Stephane Antiga. After the training camp in Spała he went to team B of Polish national team led by Andrzej Kowal. He took part in 1st edition of 2015 European Games, where his national team took 4th place. In July he joined team A of Poland on matches with United States during intercontinental round of World League 2015 in Kraków. He made his debut in senior team on 4 July 2015 in lost match with United States (1-3). On 30 September 2018 Poland achieved title of the 2018 World Champion. Poland beat Brazil in the final 3-0 and defended the title from 2014.

#ArturSzalpuk

Bartosz Bednorz (born 25 July 1994) is a Polish volleyball player, a member of Poland men's national volleyball team and Russian club Zenit Kazan, a participant of the Olympic Games (Rio 2016) On April 2, 2015, he received his debut call-up from coach Stephane Antiga to the polish national team for the 2015 representative season. Previously played in the frame B. He played 11 games for the Polish national team. 25-year-old Polish international Bartosz Bednorz signed with the Russian Superliga runners-up after spending his first two seasons abroad with Italy’s Leo Shoes Modena. The 2.01m-tall outside spiker took part in the 2016 Olympic Games and made the Dream Team of the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Nations League, after winning bronze with his teammates. Tournament Volleyball Nations League has rank 6.00 and ratio for Best outside hitter award.

#BartoszBednorz #Poland #VolleyballNationsLeague2019