Fabi Alvim | |||||||||||||
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Full name | Fabiana Alvim de Oliveira | ||||||||||||
Nickname | Fabi | ||||||||||||
Nationality | Brazilian | ||||||||||||
Born | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 7 March 1980||||||||||||
Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||
Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) | ||||||||||||
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Position | Libero | ||||||||||||
Current club | Retired | ||||||||||||
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Last updated: 2012 |
Fabiana "Fabi" Alvim de Oliveira (born 7 March 1980 in Rio de Janeiro) is a retired volleyball player from Brazil who won the gold medal at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
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I remember that our first match was against Algeria, which wasn't even such a tough team, but the butterflies in my stomach, the excitement about stepping onto the court and touching the ball, for the referee to blow that whistle so that I felt like I was in the Games It was a strange anxiety, an odd feeling of unease. And when we played our first match, you forget about those nerves and live in that moment. But until that moment, to this day I still get butterflies in my stomach, a different kind of churning in my stomach. Man, the most difficult match was the semi-final. Firstly, because it was against China who were playing at home. They were the current Olympic champions and Brazil had never made it through an Olympic semi-final, you know. So breaking that barrier and making it to an Olympic final was really tough. I remember that at the start of the match, I was really nervous, you know. In the first set, you could see the tension in the eyes and movements of our team, you know. And there we're three points ahead and we just need one more, you know, for the gold medal. And I remember the time really clearly... Ah, here comes Fofão's serve, and the ball's going to Logan again, and she hits it out. It's over. Man, it's unbelievable, you know... I remember the ball going out so clearly... And we were the Olympic champions. Gosh, it was... it was awesome. I think that image... And I look straight at Fofão, the first person in front of me is Fofão, who's a great symbol of that team. And then we start crying and we start enjoying that, the gold medal moment. When you win a gold medal, you know, you've reached the top. It's everything you can imagine about winning. There's the huge challenge of trying to repeat the magic, to keep it up, right? What's more, I think that you have to keep motivated to win something that you've already won. We had an awful first week, you know. I would say that the first week was disastrous and nearly jeopardized the chances of the Brazilian team. Gosh, unlike the first week, we had a second week that was... kind of... completely different, you know. Man, this is the first set of the final. It was something... It was horrible, disastrous. The performance of a team without confidence. And I remember that we were saying "guys we've made it to the final. Let's at least put up a fight". And they were all over it. I remember that everything they did worked. The ball went up, the ball hit... Man, it was 24:11. Ah, the set point. They're going to win it, because that first set was 25:11, I remember. Horrible. I remember after that we were just saying "guys, let's go to the game. Let's at least play". And then we started the second and third sets with the upper hand, and they got a bit worried, because until then, erm... Gosh, they hadn't... No team had put up a fight, you know. They'd always been in the lead. And then everything started to go right for us, everything was going right for us. And then, in the third set, we were playing really well... we scored a series of points, we were 7 points up. Oh, that's the set point. Jaque's defending, the ball goes to Fernanda Garai, she turns, and it's over. Man, it's unbelievable. It's funny that we didn't want the national anthem to finish. We wanted to sing the second part. I remember that I cried a lot. When you finish the national anthem, you don't really know what to do, kind of, who to look at... I didn't want to leave the podium. I remember that I didn't want to get down. Is it going to finish? No! Awesome.
Career
Fabiana started playing volleyball at the age of 13, specializing in defense - and later the libero position - due to her short height. De Oliveira was first called up to the Brazil women's national volleyball team in 2002, under coach Marco Aurélio Motta. She lost her place under his replacement, José Roberto Guimarães, and only returned to being a mainstay of the team in 2005. At the 2007 Pan American Games, held in Rio de Janeiro, de Oliveira and the Brazilian team won the silver medal.[1]
One year later, de Oliveira won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and was chosen as the best libero of the tournament.[2]
At the 2011 Pan-American Cup, de Oliveira was given the "Best Receiver" award,[3] also winning the gold medal with her national team.[4]
Oliveira was part of the national team who won the gold medal at the 2011 Pan American Games held in Guadalajara, Mexico.[5] She was also part of the Brazilian team that won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She also took the 2013 South American Championship with her national team, winning the Best Libero award.[6]
Oliveira won the silver medal at the 2013 Club World Championship, playing with Unilever Vôlei.[7]
During the 2015 FIVB Club World Championship, Oliveira played with the Brazilian club Rexona Ades Rio and her team lost the bronze medal match to the Swiss Voléro Zürich.[8]
Oliveira decided to retire from volleyball after the 2017/2018 season of the Brazilian Superliga, when her team Sesc Rio won the silver medal. Currently Oliveira is working as a volleyball commentator.[9]
Awards
Individuals
- 2002 FIVB World Grand Prix – "Best Libero"
- 2008 Final Four Cup – "Best Libero"
- 2008 Final Four Cup – "Best Receiver"
- 2008 Summer Olympics – "Best Libero"
- 2009 South American Club Championship – "Best Libero"
- 2009 Montreux Volley Masters – "Best Libero"
- 2009 South American Championship – "Most Valuable Player"
- 2009 South American Championship – "Best Receiver"
- 2011 Pan-American Cup – "Best Receiver"
- 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix – "Best Digger"
- 2011 South American Championship – "Best Libero"
- 2011 FIVB World Cup – "Best Receiver"
- 2013 South American Club Championship – "Best Libero"
- 2013 South American Championship – "Best Libero"
- 2013 FIVB World Grand Prix – "Best Libero"
- 2015 South American Club Championship – "Best Libero"
- 2016 South American Club Championship – "Best Libero"
- 2016 FIVB Club World Championship – "Best Libero"
- 2017 South American Club Championship – "Best Libero"
Clubs
- 2013 FIVB Club World Championship –
- 2017 FIVB Club World Championship –
- 2013 Club South American Championship –
- 2015 Club South American Championship –
- 2016 Club South American Championship –
- 2017 South American Club Championship –
- 2018 South American Club Championship –
References
- ^ "Brazil wins 1st gold in women's volleyball". CBC Sports. August 23, 2008. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
- ^ "Brazilian Women win gold in style as they drop just one set throughout Olympic Volleyball Tournament; Paula Pequeno is MVP". FIVB. August 23, 2008. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
- ^ NORCECA (2011-07-09). "Brazilian Sheilla Castro the MVP of the Pan Am Cup". Archived from the original on 2011-08-07. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
- ^ Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol (2011-07-10). "Copa Panamericana Femenina: Brasileñas son nuevas reinas" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2011-07-10.
- ^ FIVB (2011-10-20). "Brazil wins fourth Pan Am Games gold medal". Retrieved 2011-10-20.
- ^ "SUDAMERICANO FEMENINO: Brasil, Argentina y Perú se consagraron los mejores del Continente" (in Spanish). Ica, Peru: CSV. 2013-09-22. Retrieved 2013-09-22.
- ^ "Vakifbank Istanbul fly to first Women's Club World Champs title, China claim bronze". Zurich, Switzerland: FIVB. 2013-10-13. Retrieved 2013-10-13.
- ^ "Volero get it right on third try". Zurich, Switzerland: FIVB. 10 May 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ^ "Após deixar as quadras, Fabi reforça time de comentaristas do Grupo Globo" (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Globo. 24 April 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2018.