Who wore number 8 in volleyball?

What number you wear can often be a big part of a player’s volleyball identity. Some players care more than others about the number they don, but even for those who are indifferent to them, those numbers help connect players with young fans and can even have sentimental value. Like it or not, numbers are a big part of what can make this game great.

Sergey Tetyukhin

Sergey Yuryevich Tetyukhin is a former Russian volleyball player. He was born in Fergana, Uzbekistan. He is 1.97 m tall, and plays as passer-attacker. Together with Samuele Papi and Sérgio Santos he is one of the few male volleyball players who have accumulated four Olympic medals in the course of their long sporting careers. Tetyukhin, however, has the distinction of being the first volleyball player in the world (male or female) with four Olympic medals who has all three types of those awards, including gold at London Olympics. He competed at six Summer Olympics, being the flag-bearer in 2016.

Wallace De Souza

Wallace Leandro de Souza is a Brazilian volleyball player, known as a member of the Brazil men’s national volleyball team, 2016 Olympic Champion, silver medalist of the Olympic Games (London 2012), 2014 and 2018 World Championship, multiple-time South American Champion (2011, 2013, 2017).

Reid Priddy

William Reid Priddy, or just Reid Priddy, is an American volleyball player known for playing with the United States men’s national volleyball team and Italian club Cucine Lube Civitanova. He has also played on the AVP tour from 2000 to 2006, and resumed playing in 2009.

Murilo Endres

Murilo Endres is a Brazilian volleyball player, known as a member of Brazil men’s national volleyball team and Brazilian club SESI São Paulo. He is a silver medalist of the Olympic Games from Beijing 2008 and London 2012, World Champion (2006, 2010), silver medalist of the World Championship 2014, multimedalist of the World League, South American Championship, World Cup and the Grand Champions Cup.

Endres played in Italian League Modena Club in 2006 up to 2009 season. He played as wing spiker for Sesi São Paulo for the 2010/2011 season, in Brazil.

With the Brazil national team he won numerous World Leagues (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010), World Cup (2007) and World Championships (2006, 2010). He was named the MVP of 2010 World Championship and 2010 World League. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics and at the 2012 Summer Olympics, winning the silver medal both times. Murilo won the silver medal and the “Best Receiver” award at the 2011 FIVB World League. Endres was a star player of the national team in season 2012. He was also named the MVP of the 2012 Summer Olympics tournament.

In 2010 Endres was given Prêmio Brasil Olímpico as the best Brazilian athlete of the year.

Murilo went through a shoulder surgery in 2013 and was out of the national team for the whole season. In 2014, the wing spiker got back to the national team and helped the team to achieve the silver medal in the FIVB World League and in the FIVB World Championship. After recovery from surgery, Murilo was part of the team that played the World League in 2015.

Dmitriy Fomin

Dmitry Fomin or Dmitri Fomine is a former Russian male volleyball player. He was part of the Soviet Union men’s national volleyball team at the 1990 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship and was later part of the Russia men’s national volleyball team at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Fomin won MVP Award in World League 1995 and World Cup 1991.

Marco Bracci

Marco Bracci is a former Italian volleyball player, ranked amongst the world’s most valuable players of the late 1980s and 1990s. A 197 cm athlete, Bracci played as passer-hitter.

Bracci made his debut for the Italy national team on May 6, 1988. He earned 344 caps for his native country, winning three Volleyball World Championships (1990, 1994 and 1998) and four Volleyball European Championships (1989, 1993, 1995 and 1999), plus numerous other titles. One of the most winning players of all-time in the Italian Championships, his club titles include six scudetti and four European Champions Cups.

He played at four Olympic Games, winning a silver medal at the 1996 Games and a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympics.

He has worked as assistant coach of Massimo Barbolini the trainer of Italy women’s national volleyball team.

Alberto Cisolla

Alberto Cisolla is an Italian volleyball player. Cisolla, standing at 1.97 m for 87 kg, is known for playing passing-hitter for Callipo Sport.

He won multiple Italian titles, European Champions cup, and, with Italian national team, European Championship (2005, also declared MVP of the tournament). He won a silver medal as part of the Italian team at the 2004 Summer Olympics and also played in the team that came fourth at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Ron Zwerver

Ronald (“Ron”) Ferdinand Zwerver is a retired volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. He was one of the dominant forces in Dutch volleyball in the 1990s.

Zwerver was a member of the teams which won the silver medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics and the gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics. He is also known as the coach of Nesselande, which is a team that plays in the highest Dutch league.