Marco Aurélio Motta
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| Born | 1960 (age 56–57) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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| Position | Head coach | ||||
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| Last updated: September 7, 2013 | |||||
Marco Aurélio Motta (born 1960 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a volleyball coach from Brazil. He is the head coach of the Turkey women's national team since 2011.
He began with volleyball playing at the age of 14. He pursued a career as a coach for beach volleyball as he was 17. During that time, he discovered and coached talented beach volleyball players such as Ana Richa and Adriana Samuel.
He graduated from the Sports Academy, and helped his club Bradesco became 1984 Brazilian champion with eight young members. Discovering volleyballers like Ana Moser, Fernanda Venturini, Denise, Ana Richa, Ana Flavia, Marcia Fu, Simone Storm and Tina, he made the Brazil junior women's national volleyball team world's fourth in 1985, and two years later world champion. Motta transferred in 1987 to Lutkin Sports Club, and made his new club Brazilian champion.
Between 1991 and 1996, he coached Italy's junior women's national team. He is considered as the main architect of the team's development. During that time, his team was twice European champion, defeating the Russian junior women's national team, which was a 13-time European champion until then.
In 1997, Motta returned home, accepting an offer of the Brazilian Volleyball Confederation and led until 2000 a promotional programme for 30,000 children called "Viva Volei". During this time, he coached the beach volleyball double Adriana Samuel and Sandra Pires.
Motta coached the Brazil women's national volleyball team between 2001 and 2003.
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