Wilfredo León
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| Full name | Wilfredo León Venero | ||||
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Cuban Polish |
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July 31, 1993 Santiago de Cuba, Cuba |
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| Height | 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) | ||||
| Weight | 85 kg (187 lb) | ||||
| Spike | 350 cm (140 in) | ||||
| Block | 346 cm (136 in) | ||||
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| Position | Outside Spiker | ||||
| Current club | Zenit Kazan | ||||
| Number | 9 | ||||
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| Last updated: 6 February 2017 | |||||
Wilfredo León Venero (born 31 July 1993) is a Cuban volleyball player with Polish citizenship (since July 14, 2015), a member of Cuba men's national volleyball team in 2007–2012 and Russian club Zenit Kazan, silver medalist of the World Championship 2010, NORCECA Champion (2009, 2011), Cuban Champion (2009, 2010, 2011), Russian Champion (2015, 2016).
He was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. He is Wilfredo León Hechavarría and Alina Venero Boza (a former volleyball player)'s son. He studied at Escuela Nacional Del Voleibol Cubano. León Venero lived in Poland for a while with his Polish girlfriend. On July 14, 2015 he received Polish citizenship. He has shown the desire to play in the polish national team Poland men's national volleyball team. In June 2016 he married to Małgorzata (née Gronkowska).
He started to play, when he was 7. His first coach was his mother Alina. Wilfredo León Venero debuted in the Cuban national team on May 24, 2008 in Düsseldorf, aged 14 years and 10 months. He won the title of Best Receiver at World League 2009. On July 31, 2009 as the youngest player of tournament, he won a silver medal in the World U21 Championship 2009 (after losing final against Brazil). In 2009, the Cuban national team, with Leon, won the title of NORCECA Champion (and three individual awards) and repeated this success in 2011. After losing the final against Brazil, Cuba won a silver medal at the World Championship 2010. He was the youngest captain of the national team (he was 17). In 2012, he won bronze medal of World League - Sofia 2012. In 2013, Yoandri Diaz and León fled Cuba to play in a club outside of their homeland. They lost the possibility of playing for the Cuba national team.
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