Manuel Armoa
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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]
Personal life
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]
Honours
Club
- CSV South American Club Championship
Belo Horizonte 2019 – with UPCN Vóley Club
Contagem 2020 – with UPCN Vóley Club
- Domestic
Youth national team
Individual awards
- 2021: FIVB U21 World Championship – Best outside spiker[8]
References
- ^ "Argentyńska nadzieja w Indykpolu AZS!". Indykpol AZS Olsztyn (in Polish). 14 June 2023. Retrieved 14 June 2023.
- ^ "Manuel Armoa Morel: "Quiero ganarme un lugar para jugar el Mundial"". The Cecco 15 (in Spanish). 16 June 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
- ^ "Familia Armoa: en la casa y en la cancha". Olé (in Spanish). 20 January 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
- ^ ""How it started" / "How it's going": la gran historia de UPCN, el campeón de la Liga de Vóley con su propia versión del meme". Clarín (in Spanish). 8 April 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ "Insultos racistas contra Manuel Armoa, un jugador argentino en Chile". Olé (in Spanish). 24 September 2022. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ "Pereyra and Armoa lead UPCN to ninth Argentinean title". Volleyball World. 17 April 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
- ^ "UPCN es nuevo campeón de la Supercopa ACLAV". UPCN Vóley (in Spanish). 23 October 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
- ^ "Manu Armoa al equipo ideal del Mundial U21". UPCN Vóley (in Spanish). 3 October 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
External links
- Player profile at PlusLiga.pl (in Polish)
- Player profile at Volleybox.net
- CS1 Polish-language sources (pl)
- CS1 Spanish-language sources (es)
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Use dmy dates from March 2023
- Articles with Polish-language sources (pl)
- 2002 births
- Living people
- Argentine people of Cuban descent
- Place of birth missing (living people)
- Afro-Argentine sportspeople
- Argentine men's volleyball players
- Argentine expatriate volleyball players in Poland
- AZS Olsztyn (volleyball) players
- Outside hitters