Sporting Clube de Portugal is a professional volleyball team based in Lisbon, Portugal. It is the volleyball section of Sporting CP.[1]
| Full name | Sporting Clube de Portugal | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1938 | ||
| Ground | Pavilhão João Rocha (Capacity: 3,000) | ||
| President | Frederico Varandas | ||
| Manager | Gersinho | ||
| Captain | Miguel Maia | ||
| League | Portuguese First Division | ||
| Uniforms | |||
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History edit
Volleyball was introduced in Sporting Clube de Portugal in the thirties by influence of Salazar Carreira, constituting itself the club as one of the founders of the Association of Volleyball of Lisbon, 28 of December 1938.
The club would only reach its first titles in the fifties thanks to the dynamism of Professor Moniz Pereira, who was a manager, coach and player of the team that, in the 1953/54 season, broke the hegemony of the Instituto Superior Técnico that until then had conquered all National Championships, which were disputed since 1947. In addition to Moniz Pereira, the Yugoslavs Jost and Budisin, Xara Brazil, Marques Pereira, Fernando Fezas Vital, Machado da Costa, Anibal Rebelo and Plácido Martins.
At the women's level the first official competition began in June 1951, and Sporting Clube de Portugal was one of four clubs that took part in the competition, with the Lionesses being in second place. After a brilliant period with the achievement of the National Championships of 1953/54 and 1955/56, the modality declined, being fundamentally supported by successes at the training levels and at the feminine level, ending up being extinguished at the beginning of the 1964/65 season with the club's restructuring.
At the end of almost two decades of interregnum, the sport was again practiced in 1981/82, first only in the women's sector in the senior and junior years, so that the volleyball later returned in force to Sporting and to those that were the golden years of the modality in Alvalade, the 90s, with a team led by António Rodrigues, and with some of the best players of the time, such as Nilson Júnior, Carlos Natário, Miguel Maia, Wagner Silva, Luís Cláudio, Magrão, Filipe Vitó, Marcelo and Maurício Cavalcanti. Carlos Silveira, Miguel Soares and Américo Silva, Sporting was Tri-National Champion and won a Portuguese Cup and two Super Cups.
In the first half of the decade of 1990, to the referred conquests were added still more two Cups of Portugal and a Supertaca. However, the victorious momentum was abruptly interrupted at the beginning of the Roquete Project in 1995. One of the first measures of financial reorganization of the Board chaired by Santana Lopes was to end various high competition modalities, including Volleyball.
In November 1995, a group of coaches, athletes and their parents from the former section decided to found the Lisbon Volleyball Center, a non-profit sports institution dedicated to teaching and practicing the sport.
On 5 June 2017, Sporting Clube de Portugal officially announces that Volleyball will become part of Leon's eclecticism again, with the men's senior team competing in the First National Division in the 2017/18 season, with the undisputed Miguel Maia.
Facilities edit
Pavilhão João Rocha edit
Pavilhão João Rocha is a multi-sports pavilion located in the parish of Lumiar, in Lisbon. Located next to the Estádio José Alvalade, it is the home of Sporting CP sports. In honor of one of the most distinguished figures in the history of Sporting, the pavilion was named after former club president, João Rocha, who remained in office from September 1973 to October 1986. Its inauguration took place on the day June 21, 2017.
Honours edit
Men edit
1953–54, 1955–56, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 2017–18
1990–91, 1992–93, 1994–95, 2020–21, 2023-24
1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93
Women edit
1984–85, 1985–86
1986–87
Roster edit
Season 2020–2021, as of September 2020.[2]
| Number | Player | Position | Height (m) | Weight (kg) | Birth date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  José Rojas
|
Outside hitter | 1.89 | 97 | 5 October 1992 |
| 3 |  Éder Levi
|
Middle blocker | 2.06 | 103 | 4 July 1993 |
| 4 | Victor Hugo
|
Middle blocker | 1.99 | 92 | 2 August 1992 |
| 5 | Paulo Victor
|
Opposite | 1.98 | 102 | 12 May 1986 |
| 7 | André Saliba
|
Opposite | 2.01 | 91 | 27 August 1999 |
| 8 |  Miguel Maia
|
Setter | 1.81 | 92 | 23 April 1971 |
| 9 | José Vinha
|
Outside hitter | 1.84 | 69 | 9 December 1994 |
| 10 | Robinson Dvoranen
|
Outside hitter | 2.01 | 88 | 23 December 1983 |
| 11 | Gil Meireles
|
Libero | 1.76 | 70 | 21 February 1995 |
| 13 | Hugo Vinha
|
Setter | 1.85 | 61 | 7 March 2001 |
| 15 | André Sousa
|
Middle blocker | 1.88 | 79 | 5 November 1995 |
| 16 | Renan Purificação
|
Outside hitter | 1.96 | 89 | 27 November 1991 |
| 17 | João Fidalgo
|
Libero | 1.72 | 67 | 2 November 1986 |
| 18 | Bruno Alves
|
Setter | 1.89 | 87 | 18 May 1989 |
| 19 |  Hélio Sanches
|
Middle blocker | 2.01 | 93 | 10 May 1991 |
| 20 | Miguel Sá
|
Libero | 1.84 | 80 | 19 April 2000 |
New Signings 23-24 Season edit
| Name | Position | Height | Weight | Date of Birth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jose Carrasco
|
Setter | 1.93 | 87 | 20 May 1989 (age 34) |
 Kevin Kobrine
|
Opposite | 1.95 | 80 | 27 January 2000 (age 23) |
| Armando Velasquez
|
Setter | 1.89 | 80 | 18 September 1988 (age 34) |
 Jan Galabov
|
Outside Hitter | 1.93 | 89 | 12 June 1996 (age 27) |
| Martin Lieck
|
Outside Hitter | 1.97 | 83 | 5 January 1995 (age 28) |
References edit
- ^ "o tão aguardado regresso do voleibol" (in Portuguese). Jornal Sporting. 5 Jun 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
- ^ "Volleyball Team". Sporting CP. Retrieved 4 September 2020.