Taismary Agüero
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| Full name | Taismary Agüero Leiva Botteghi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Tai, Fenomeno, Extraterrestre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Italy
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| Born |
March 5, 1977 Yaguajay, Cuba |
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| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spike | 322 cm (127 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Block | 300 cm (120 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing Spiker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current club | Volley 2002 Forlì | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Taismary Agüero Leiva (born March 5, 1977) is a Cuban-born Italian volleyball player. She is the only player to represent two women's volleyball national team to win Major titles (1995 FIVB World Cup, 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, 1998 FIVB World Championship, 1999 FIVB World Cup and 2000 Sydney Olympic Games for Cuba; 2007 FIVB World Cup for Italy).
Born in Yaguajay in the province of Sancti Spiritus, when she began to play volleyball when she was eight years old. Two years later, she entered in the Cerro Pelado Training Center in Havana. In 1993 she won the junior women's volleyball world championship and then joined the senior national team. She did not participate in the 1994 FIVB Women's World Championship, but she won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta two years later. In 1998 together with Mireya Luis, Regla Bell, Ana Ibis Fernandez, and Mirka Francia she won the 1998 FIVB Women's World Championship in Japan. In 2000 she was a member of the Cuban Woman volleyball national team that won the gold medal at the Sydney. In the summer 2001, she left the Cuban National Team during a tournament in Switzerland and applied for political asylum in Italy . The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) allowed her to play in Italy despite the opposition of Cuban volleyball federation and she joined Pallavolo Sirio Perugia, an Italian volleyball club, where she had just played before during the 1998–1999 and 1999–2000 seasons. At the end of 2006 she became an Italian citizen after marrying Alessio Botteghi an Italian physiotherapist who works for the Turkish National Women Volleyball team. In the summer of 2007 she joined the Italian national team.
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