Andrea Zorzi (born 29 July 1965) is an Italian former
volleyball
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player, won two World Championships with the
Italy men's national volleyball team
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(1990 and 1994). A 201 cm athlete, Zorzi was an effective spiker who played as an opposite hitter. He was popularly known as "Zorro".
In 1991, he was declared World's Best Player by the
FIVB.
In 2024, Zorzi was inducted into the
International Volleyball Hall of Fame
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.
National team
Zorzi was the
1990 FIVB World League MVP after helping Italy win the gold medal, and was at one point reputedly the world's highest paid volleyball player.
[ ] He was instrumental in Italy winning the gold medal at the
1990 Goodwill Games
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in Seattle.
Zorzi won gold medals with the Italian team at the
1990 FIVB World Championship in Brazil and the
1994 FIVB World Championship in Greece.
Zorzi was a silver medalist at the
1996 Summer Olympics
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in Atlanta, and also competed at the
1988 Summer Olympics
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in Seoul and
1992 Summer Olympics
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in Barcelona.
In the
European Championship
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In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ...
, Zorzi won gold medals while representing Italy in 1989, 1993, and 1995, and won a silver medal in 1991.
Club volleyball
Playing for almost all the major volleyball clubs of Italy, including
Maxicono Parma and
Sisley Treviso, Zorzi won several titles: these include two Italian Championships (1990, 1996) and one European Champions League in 1995.
Clubs
Individual awards
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1990 FIVB World League "Most Valuable Player"''
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1991 FIVB World League "Most Valuable Player"''
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1992 FIVB World League "Best Server"''
* ''2024 International Volleyball Hall of Fame''
References
External links
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Volleybox.net profile
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1965 births
Living people
Sportspeople from the Metropolitan City of Venice
Olympic volleyball players for Italy
Olympic silver medalists for Italy
Italian men's volleyball players
Volleyball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Volleyball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in volleyball
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Opposite hitters
20th-century Italian sportsmen