Bernardo Rocha de Rezende (born 25 August 1959), known as Bernardo Rezende and nicknamed Bernardinho, is a Brazilian

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coach and former player. He is the current coach of the female volleyball team

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. Rezende is one of the most successful coaches in the history of volleyball, accumulating more than 30 major titles in a twenty-year career directing the Brazilian

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and

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teams. Rezende has won two Olympic gold medals during his coaching career, as head coach of

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and

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Olympics. He also won two bronze medals as head coach of

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at the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney Olympics. As of 2021, with 48 medals overall, he is the most successful

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coach of all time.

Career

Player

Rezende played volleyball from 1979 to 1985, and competed in two

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, winning a silver medal at the

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. He also finished fifth at the

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and won a gold medal at the

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. Rezende played in

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, Volley Atlantica Boavista,

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and

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from 1972 to 1988. With Atlântica Boavista he was the winner of Brazil Super League in 1981.

Coach

In 1988, Rezende stopped playing to work started his coaching career as an assistant to Bebeto de Freitas at the

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. In 1990 he became the coach of Italian female team

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, and remained there for two years. In 1990 he became coach of Brazil female team That year. Rezende with Brazil team placed second in the FIVB World Championship and won the

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. In 1996, the team won the bronze medal at the Atlanta Olympic Games and the gold medal at the

. In 1998 Rezende led the Brazilians to a

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title, earned qualification for the FIVB World Championship and won bronze in the FIVB World Grand Championship Cup in Japan. In 1999, Rezende won the gold medal at the

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in Winnipeg, a silver medal in the

, gold in the

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for the third time, and bronze at the FIVB World Cup. In 2000, he led Brazil to third place in the

, and also to third place at the

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2000. Rezende left as coach of the women's team in 2000. Since 2001, Rezende has been the coach of the Brazilian male national team, with whom he won two Olympic titles in

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and

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. After this success Rezende accepted the challenge of leading the Brazilian men in 2001. Bernardinho led the team to memorable victories including first place in the 2001 and 2003 editions of the

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, and the gold medal at the 2002 FIVB World Championship. In 2003, Rezende's star shone even stronger. He guided the team to titles in the

and the FIVB World Cup, and bronze at the

in Dominican Republic. In July 2004, Brazil claimed their fourth

title. In August, the team won its second Olympic gold medal in

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and make new historic team. Bernardinho returned at the end of the year to the Superliga to coach Rexona-Ades. In 2005, still coaching the Brazilian men team, Rezende earned another four international medals, gold in the

, gold at the

and gold at the

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in Japan. He also won silver at the

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. In 2006, Bernardinho won the

, for the fifth time, and the FIVB World Championship for the second time. The success did not let up in 2007, with victories in the

, the FIVB World Cup, the

and the

. He also led a young team to second place at the

. In 2008, Brazil failed in the most important tournaments of the season, finishing second in the Beijing Olympic Games and fourth in the

, the Final Round of which was played in

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. In 2009, however, the coach commanded a renewed team that won the

, the FIVB World Grand Championship Cup and the

. In 2010, Brazil started the season winning the ninth title of the

, overcoming the Italian record. In the end of the year, Bernardo his third FIVB World Championship title with Brazil. In 2011, Rezende led the Brazilian national team to winning the silver medal in the

and a gold medal in the

. By the end of the year, Brazil assured its spot at the London Olympic Games by finishing third in the FIVB World Cup. In 2012 Rezende Once again climbed to the

final and won silver medal. From 2013 to 2015, Brazil won the silver medal in the 2013 FIVB World League and 2014 FIVB World League, gold medal in the 2013 FIVB World Grand Championship Cup, and gold medals in the 2013 South American Championship and 2015 South American Championship. Brazil began 2016 with a silver medal in 2016 FIVB World League. Rezende once again defeated his great rival

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to win the gold medal in the

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Olympics.

Individual awards

* 2008 - Brazilian Superliga - Best Coach * 2011 - Brazilian Superliga - Best Coach * 2011 -

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- Best Coach in Volleyball * 2012 - Volleyball Globe - Best Coach

Personal life

In 1999, Rezende married volleyball player

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, with whom he has two daughters. They got divorced in 2020. From his previous marriage to player

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he had a son who is currently the setter and captain of the Brazilian volleyball team,

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(Bruninho). Since August 2024, he is in a relationship with the journalist Ana Paula Araújo who currently hosts the morning show

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at the

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Management

Rezende besides lecturer is also a businessman on several fronts separate business and is part of the board of directors of all of them: * Delirio Tropical - Restaurant founded in 1983 with 9 units in Rio de Janeiro. * Bodytech Group - The largest fitness centers in Latin America, with 50 units and more than 87,000 students. * Instituto Compartilhar -

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created by Rezende with the mission to develop young people from disadvantaged communities through by sport. * - Online educational institution.

References

External links

* *
Volleybox.net profile

Olympics 2016 Rezende - Reuters

Espn.uol World Volleyball Rezende

Melhordovolei Bernardo Rezende
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