Emanuel Rego
Emanuel Rego Fernando Scheffer ( born April 15, 1973 in Curitiba, Brazil) is a Brazilian beach volleyball player, Olympic gold medalist and three -time world champion.
Career
As Hall volleyball Emanuel Rego started his career. In 1991 he moved to beach volleyball, 1994, he started for the first time at the FIVB Tour. With his partner Zé Marco Emanuel in 1996 for the first time FIVB Tour Champion. In 1997 the two were able to repeat this success. In 1998, José Loiola new partner of Emanuel Rego, who was elected in the same year at the AVP Tour Rookie of the Year. In 1999 they won the Brazilian Beach Volleyball World Championships in Marseille and were FIVB champion. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 they divorced already out in the second round. Emanuel, who was elected FIVB players of the nineties, changed again in 2001 to partner and then won for the fourth time the FIVB tour, this time with Tande Ramos.
2003 began the most successful period of Emanuel Rego, from now on the team with Ricardo Santos. The two won from 2003 to 2007 each time the FIVB tour and were from 2005 to 2007 FIVB Team of the Year. In 2004 they won the Brazilians the gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Athens, a year earlier they had become beach volleyball world champion in her native country in Rio de Janeiro. In 2007, she was the Pan American Games to decide for themselves, which also took place in Rio de Janeiro.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, won Emanuel / Ricardo the bronze medal, in 2009 they succeeded in their last common victory at the FIVB Tour in Brasilia. With a total of 33 joint successes at the World Tour, they are the leader in this ranking. Emanuel also occupied with his 76 wins FIVB (July 2013) the first place in the all-time best list.
2010
The first FIVB tournament of the year in their home country, the two new partner Emanuel Rego and Alison Beach Cerutti reached after victories over their compatriots Ricardo / Cunha and Pedro / Thiago the finals, but lost to Rogers / Dalhausser and took second place. In the Shanghai Open, the Brazilians were able to return the favor, but only in the match for third place in the semi-finals they were at the German World Champions Brink / Recker man failed. In Rome there was the new edition of the finals of Brasilia with the same result. After Rego / Cerutti had occupied the fourth place in Poland and the ninth in Moscow, was the final in Prague for the third time this year, Brazil vs USA, and for the third time left Dalhausser / Rogers winner the place with the only difference to the two previous finals that Emanuel Rego and Alison Cerutti could decide in a separate block. Also, in the next start-up in Stavanger failed the two South Americans in revenge against the athletes from the United States, this time from the but already came in the quarterfinals. After a 17th place in Gstaad, the two Brazilians arrived in Klagenfurt and Kristiansand each the bronze medal, while Mazuri Grand Slam handed it to the shared fifth place. At the end of the season Emanuel Rego was honored for the second time after 2005 as a sports person of the year.
2011
After a second place in Brasilia and a ninth place in Shanghai Emanuel / Alison won in Prague their first joint gold medal at the World Tour. In Beijing, the two Brazilians were able to repeat this success and in Rome they succeeded in the third tournament win in a row. At the World Cup Emanuel Rego and Alison Cerutti his partner in the finals were able to prevail against the also Brazilian Marcio Araujo team / Ricardo. They solved the German team Brink / Recker man from a world champion. After a fifth place in Stavanger Rego and Cerutti won the following two tournaments in Gstaad and Moscow. Subsequently, the two South Americans finished third in Stare Jablonki and ninth in Klagenfurt. After winning the bronze medal in Åland Emanuel and Alison finished as overall winner of the 2011 tour. For Emanuel Rego it was already the tenth success as FIVB Tour Champion. He was also awarded as Most Outstanding, Most Inspirational and sports person and together with Alison Cerutti as Team of the Year.
2012
Emanuel and Alison started the season with a seventh place at the opening event, improved their ranking on the following tournaments continuously over a fifth place in Shanghai, ranked third in the Chinese capital, in the finals in Prague through to victory in Moscow. At the events in Rome, Gstaad and Berlin reached the two Brazilians the final, which they could make successful in the German capital. At the Olympic Games in London, the South African duo received after a 1-2 defeat in the final against Brink / Recker man the silver medal. At the last Grand Slam of the year in Poland Cerutti and Rego occupied the fifth place. Following Emanuel was named sports person as well as Most Inspirational in 2012.
2013
At the World Championships in Stare Jabłonki Alison / Emanuel came after six consecutive wins semi-finals, where they were beaten by their countrymen Ricardo / Filho. The match for third place lost Alison / Emanuel against the Germans Erdmann / Matysik. At the end of the season, Alison and Emanuel parted.
Private
Mary and Manoel Rego are the parents of Emanuel. His one year older, sister is called Aniele. Emanuel Rego has a son from his first marriage Mateus. Since November 2008, he is married to the Brazilian beach volleyball player Leila Barros, whose common son Luke is called.