Top 10 Best Volleyball Players of All Time
I have previously made a list of Top 10 Volleyball Spikers and now it’s time to get the best Volleyball players to the list. Here are the Top 10 Best Volleyball Players of All Time.
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10. Valerio Vermiglio
Country: Italy
Career: 2002 – Present
Positions: Setter
Height: 1.93m
About Player
Valerio Vermiglio is an Italian volleyball player, who was a member of the Italian men’s national team that won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Achievements:
Best setter – Champions League 2011/12
MVP – Italian Cup 2007/08
Best setter – Champions League 2005/06
MVP – Italian Cup 2003/04
MVP – Italian Supercup 2003/04
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9. Tomasz Wojtowicz
Country: Poland
Career: 1968 – 1969
Positions: Spiker
Height: 1.98m
About Player
Wojtowicz, was an exceptionally powerful leaper, hitter, and spiker. Not only did he excel at defensive play as the middle blocker, but he was also good at back-row hitting, sending spikes across the court and through the opposing team.
He took Polish National Team and won a Gold Medal at the 1974 World Championship and a Gold Medal at the 1976 Olympic Games.
Achievements:
MVP – World Cup 1977
Best blocker – World Cup 1977
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8. Andrea Giani
Country: Italy
Career: 2007 – Present
Positions: Middle Blocker
Height: 1.96m
About Player
Andrea Giani is an Italian professional volleyball coach and former player who scored numerous successes in the 1990s, including three World Championships with his national team. He is considered one of the best volleyball players ever. He was an all-rounder which was able to play both as an outside hitter and middle blocker, but he played several times as the opposite.
Achievements:
MVP – European Championships 1999
Best scorer – European Championships 1999
Best blocker – Italian Serie A1 1997/98
MVP – World Cup 1995
Best blocker – European Championships 199
MVP – World League 1994
Best receiver – Grand Champions Cup 1993
MVP – European Championships 1993
Best blocker – World League 1998
7. Vyacheslav Zaytsev
Country: Russia
Career: 1976 – 1988
Positions: Setter
Height: 1.91m
About Player
Vyacheslav Zaytsev is a former Russian volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics, the 1980 Summer Olympics, and in the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Achievements:
MVP – European Championships 1985
MVP – World Cup 1981
Best digger – World Cup 1977
MVP – World Championships 1982
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6. Dante Amaral
Country: Brazil
Career: 1999 – 2018
Positions: Outside Hitter
Height: 2.01m
About Player
Dante Amaral is a former Brazilian professional volleyball player, who is best known as Dante. Measuring 2.01m and 86 kilograms, he played in the outside hitter position.
Achievements:
Best spiker – South American Championship 2011
Best receiver – Hubert Wagner Memorial 2010
MVP – Greek Cup 2006/07
Best spiker – Champions League 2009/10
Best spiker – World League 2008
MVP – America’s Cup 2005
Best spiker – World Cup 2007
The Best spiker – World Championships 2006
Best scorer – America’s Cup 2005
MVP – Russian SuperCup 2009/10
Best blocker – World League 2005
The Best spiker – The Olympics 2004
Best receiver – World League 2004
5. Ivan Miljkovic
Country: Serbian
Career: 1996 – 2017
Positions: Opposite
Height: 2.06m
About Player
Ivan Miljković is a Serbian volleyball player, a member of Serbia’s men’s national volleyball team from 1998–2012, Olympic Champion in 2000, and European Champion (2001, 2011). He won the World Championship, World Grand Champions Cup, World Cup, and World League.
Achievements:
Best scorer – World League (2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009)
Best server – World League 2005
MVP – World League (2001, 2002, 2003, 2005)
Best scorer – European Championships 2001
Best scorer – Italian Serie A1 2001/02, 2005/06
MVP – European Championships 2001
Best scorer – European Championships 2001
The Best Spiker – Italian Cup 2000/01, 2002/03
Best scorer – Italian Cup 2007/08
MVP – Challenge Cup 2013/14
Best spiker – CEV Cup 2007/08
Best scorer – Challenge Cup 2013/14
4. Sergio Dutra Santos
Country: Brazil
Career: 1992 – 2020
Positions: Libero
Height: 1.84m
About Player
Sérgio Dutra dos Santos, known as Serginho is a former Brazilian volleyball player. As a member of Brazil’s men’s national volleyball team, he won gold medals at the 2004 and 2016 Olympics and silver medals at the 2008 and 2012 editions.
He is a two-time World Champion (2006, 2010) and a multi-medalist in the World League, South American Championship, World Cup, and the Grand Champions Cup. In 2009 he became the first libero to be named Most Valuable Player in the history of the FIVB World League
Achievements:
Best libero – Brazilian Superliga 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03
Best libero – The Olympics 2004, 2016
The Best libero – Pan American Games 2007
Best receiver – Pan American Games 2007
Best receiver – Brazilian Superliga 2002/03, 2005/06, 2006/07
The Best digger – The Olympics 2004
Best receiver – The Olympics 2004
Best receiver – World Cup 2011
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3. Lorenzo Bernardi
Country: Italy
Career: 2007 – 2022
Positions: Outside Hitter
Height: 1.99m
About Player
Lorenzo Bernardi is an Italian professional volleyball coach and former player, a silver medallist at the Olympic Games Atlanta 1996, two times World Champion (1990, 1994), and a two–time European Champion (1989, 1995).
Bernardi was elected best player of the 1994 World Championship and 1995 European Championship, and in 2001, the FIVB declared him to be the “Volleyball Player of the Century” with Karch Kiraly.
Achievements:
MVP – World League 1992
The MVP – Club World Championship 1992/93
MVP – World Championships 1994
Best spiker – Italian Serie A1 2003/04
MVP – European Championships 1995
MVP – World League 1996
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2. Karch Kiraly
Country: USA
Career: 1981 – 2020
Positions: Outside Hitter
Height: 1.88m
About Player
Karch Kiraly is an American volleyball player, coach, and broadcast announcer. In the 1980s he was a central part of the U.S National Team that won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games. He went on to win the gold medal again at the 1996 Olympic Games, the first Olympic competition to feature beach volleyball.
Kiraly is the only player to have won Olympic medals of any color in both the indoor and beach volleyball categories.
He is currently the head coach of the United States women’s national volleyball team leading them to their first-ever gold medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and thereby completing the “triple crown” of coaching an Olympic gold medal-winning team as well as personally winning gold medals in both indoor and beach volleyball.
Achievements:
Best outside hitter – NCAA 1979/80
MVP – NCAA 1980/81,1981/82
MVP – World Cup 1985, 1989
Best digger – Club World Championship 1990/91
MVP – The Olympics 1988
MVP – Club World Championship 1991/92
1. Giba
Country: Brazil
Career: 1996 – 2019
Positions: Outside Hitter
Height: 1.92m
About Player
Gilberto Amauri de Godoy Filho, known as Giba is a former Brazilian professional volleyball player who played as an outside hitter. For much of the 2000s, he was widely regarded as one of the best volleyball players in the world.
During his professional career, he played in Brazil, Italy, Russia, Argentina, and briefly in the United Arab Emirates. He is mostly remembered for his successes with the national team.
With the Brazilian National Team, he won a total of 8 South American Championships, 3 America’s Cups, 8 World League titles, 3 World Grand Champions Cups, three World Championships (2002, 2006, 2010), a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and two silver medals at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, where he was the team’s captain.
Achievements:
MVP – World Championships U19 1993
MVP – World Championships U21 1995
Best server – South American Championship 2001
MVP – South American Championship 2001, 2007
MVP – The Olympics 2004
Best server – World League 2008
MVP – Italian Cup 2005/06
MVP – World League 2006
Best spiker – South American Championship 2009
MVP – World Championships 2006
MVP – Pan American Games 2007
So guys this was the list of the Top 10 Best Volleyball Players of All Time.
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Miljkovic is Serbian, not Siberian.
ok sorry for that and thanks for noticing.