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Full name | Manuel Armoa Morel | ||||||||||||||
Born | 1 December 2002 | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Position | Outside hitter | ||||||||||||||
Current club | AZS Olsztyn | ||||||||||||||
Number | 11 | ||||||||||||||
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Manuel Armoa Morel (born 1 December 2002) is an Argentine professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for Indykpol AZS Olsztyn and the Argentina national team. [1]
He made his debut in the senior national team during the 2022 Nations League against Poland. [2]
Both his parents are connected to volleyball: his adoptive father, Fabián Armoa, is a volleyball coach and his mother Carla Morel is a former Argentina national team member. [3] His biological father is Cuban. [4]
At CSV Qualifying Tournament to 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile, during a match between the Argentine and Chilean U23 sides, Armoa was subject to racist abuse from the audience, and a bottle was thrown at him from the stands. The game had to be briefly stopped and the Chilean team later apologized to Armoa on behalf of their country. [5]
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