Facundo Conte

As of August 7, 2012

Facundo Conte ( born August 25, 1989 in Vicente López ( Buenos Aires ) ) is an Argentine volleyball player.

Career

Facundo Conte is the son of volleyball coach Hugo Conte, who won bronze in 1988 as a player in the Olympics. He began his own career in 2005 in Rosario Sonder and played the next season in Metropolitana. With the Argentine juniors he was fourth in the 2007 World Cup and 2008 the junior won the South American Championship. The outside attacker played 2007/ 08 first Gimnasia y Esgrima de Buenos Aires and then moved to Italian second division SP Catania. In 2008 he made ​​his debut in the America's Cup in the senior team. After playing 2009/10 Zinella Bologna another season in the second division in Italy, he moved to first division Lube Macerata. There he won the 2011 Challenge Cup. Then Conte initially went to the ER San Giustino, but in December 2011, he moved on to Acqua Paradiso Monza. With Argentina, he reached the quarterfinals at the 2012 Olympic Games. After the tournament, he joined the Russian club Dynamo Krasnodar VK. His girlfriend, the Czech national team Helena Havelková then plays also in Krasnodar.