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| Full name | Luís Antônio Barbosa da Silva | ||||||||||||||
| Born | March 13, 1970 (age 54) Recife, Brazil | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||||
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Lula Barbosa da Silva (born March 13, 1970, in Recife) is a former beach volleyball player from Brazil who won the silver medal in the men's beach team competition at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, partnering with Adriano Garrido. [1]
Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two players each on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the court. Each team also works in unison to prevent the opposing team from grounding the ball on their side of the court.
Sports in Brazil are those that are widely practiced and popular in the country, as well as others which originated there or have some cultural significance. Brazilians are heavily involved in sports. Football is the most popular sport in Brazil. Other than football, sports like volleyball, mixed martial arts, basketball, tennis, and motor sports, especially Formula One, enjoy high levels of popularity.
Leandro Mateus Barbosa, also known as Leandrinho Barbosa, is a Brazilian former professional basketball player who is an assistant coach for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also represented the senior Brazilian national basketball team. Barbosa previously won the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award, with the Suns in 2007, and an NBA championship with Golden State in 2015. In Brazil, he is also commonly known by his nickname "Leandrinho" Barbosa, and in the United States, Barbosa was nicknamed "The Brazilian Blur", referring to his playing speed. At a height of 1.92 m tall, Barbosa played at the shooting guard position.
Movement for the Unity of the Communists was a splinter group of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB). MUC split from PCB on April 19, 2005, after the departure of PCB from the Lula government. On May 15 the same year, the 53 members of MUC decided to merge into the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB).
Francismar Adriano Dias Garrido is a Brazilian male former beach volleyball player who won the silver medal in the men's beach team competition at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, partnering with Lula Barbosa.
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Luis Miguel Barbosa Maia is a beach volleyball player from Portugal, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996. He ended up in fourth place in Atlanta (1996) and in Sydney (2000), alongside João Brenha, after having lost the bronze medal match against the German couple Axel Hager / Jörg Ahmann. He currently plays for Sporting CP.
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Lula or Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is a Brazilian politician who is the President of Brazil from 2003 to 2011 and 2023 to present.
Wallace Leandro de Souza, known by the mononym Wallace, is a Brazilian volleyball player, member of the Brazil men's national volleyball team, 2016 Olympic Champion, silver medallist of the Olympic Games, 2014 and 2018 World Championship, three–time South American Champion.
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Bruno Oscar Schmidt is a Brazilian beach volleyball player. He plays as a right-side defender. Bruno is the nephew of the former Brazilian basketball player Oscar Schmidt and of the TV news announcer Tadeu Schmidt. In 2010, he was named the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Most Improved Player. He was also named the Best Defensive Player in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. Schmidt won the gold medal at the 2015 World Championships with his teammate Alison Cerutti in the Netherlands. He won the gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics with Alison Cerutti.
Ana Beatriz Moser is a Brazilian former volleyball player and three-time Olympian. She helped make the Brazilian women's national volleyball team a dominant force in the 1990s. She was an outside hitter.
Barbosa is a Portuguese and later also Southern Galician surname. It may refer to:
Events in the year 2018 in Brazil.
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Rebecca Cavalcante Barbosa da Silva is a Brazilian beach volleyball player. She competed for Brazil with Ana Patrícia Ramos in women's beach volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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