Giovane Gávio
Giovane Farinazzo Gavio (born 7 September 1970), known as Giovane, is a Brazilian retired volleyball coach and former player who was a member of the Brazil men's national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona by defeating the Netherlands (3-0) in the final.[1][2][3]
Playing as an outside hitter, Gavio competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992.[1] Later on he started a career in beach volleyball.[1] He is the only Brazilian player (and second overall, after Javier Weber) to win the Superliga both as player and coach.[1] After retiring from coaching national and club teams, Gavio became a sports executive, businessman and corporate speaker, and is the founder of the Instituto Giovane Gávio.[4]
In 2021, Gavio was inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame.[1]
Coaching career
[edit]Gavio retired as a player in 2005 and began coaching in 2009 at SESI São Paulo, where he won two São Paulo Cups (2009 and 2010), two São Paulo state championships (2009 and 2012), and the Superliga title in the 2010–11 season.[4] He subsequently coached SESC-RJ from 2016 to 2020, winning the Rio de Janeiro state championship in 2016 and the Superliga B title in 2017.[4][5] He also served as head coach of the Brazilian under-21 (2016; 2019–2021) and under-23 (2017–2018) national teams, winning the 2022 South American Under-21 Championship.[4]
Sports management
[edit]In July 2022, Gavio launched a project to revive professional men's volleyball in Joinville, Santa Catarina, becoming president of the Associação de Vôlei Norte Catarinense, known as Joinville Vôlei.[6] The club reached Superliga B in its first season and was promoted to Superliga A for 2023–24.[7] Under his presidency, the club also runs Novos Ventos, a social project using mini-volleyball to reach children and teenagers aged 8 to 15 from public schools in Joinville, launched in February 2024 and expanded to Itapoá in 2025.[8]
Gavio is also the founder of the Instituto Giovane Gávio, a non-profit organisation established in April 2000 that uses sport as a tool for education and social inclusion; he is no longer its executive president, a role held by another leader since 2024.[9] The institute supports the Vôlei do Futuro project, with free volleyball classes for children in Rio de Janeiro and Vitória, and, in Brasília, the Vôlei BSB TEC project, which combines a men's youth team with professional and technology training.[10]
Speaking career
[edit]Since retiring as an athlete, Gavio has worked as a corporate speaker, addressing themes such as leadership, purpose, daily excellence, innovation, growth mindset, business management and discipline, drawing on his sports career; his talks are often framed around the twelve years between his Olympic gold medals in Barcelona 1992 and Athens 2004.[11] He is also a certified coach through the Sociedade Brasileira de Coaching.[11] He is one of the athletes featured in the documentary film Ouro, Suor e Lágrimas (2015), directed by Helena Sroulevich, about the most successful decade of Brazilian volleyball (2001–2012).[12]
Individual awards
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 "Giovane Gavio". International Volleyball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 5 June 2023. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
- ↑ "Giovane". Olympedia. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Giovane". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 "Giovane Gávio – Player Profile". Volleybox. Retrieved 11 July 2026.
- ↑ "Bicampeão olímpico e consultor do SESC-RJ, Giovane Gávio é anunciado para a classe 2021 do Hall da Fama do Vôlei" (in Portuguese). SESC-RJ. 11 May 2021. Retrieved 11 July 2026.
- ↑ "Giovane Gávio começa projeto para retomar equipe profissional de vôlei em Joinville" (in Portuguese). ge.globo. 5 July 2022. Retrieved 11 July 2026.
- ↑ "Joinville Vôlei". Portuguese Wikipedia. Retrieved 11 July 2026.
- ↑ "Joinville Vôlei inaugura 1º núcleo de projeto social em escola da zona norte" (in Portuguese). Joinville Vôlei. 20 February 2024. Retrieved 11 July 2026.
- ↑ "Sobre Nós" (in Portuguese). Instituto Giovane Gávio. Retrieved 11 July 2026.
- ↑ "Giovane Gávio lança projeto que une vôlei e educação em Brasília" (in Portuguese). Correio Braziliense. August 2025. Retrieved 11 July 2026.
- 1 2 "Giovane Gávio — Liderança, Superação e Excelência" (in Portuguese). Prisma Palestras. Retrieved 11 July 2026.
- ↑ "Ouro, Suor e Lágrimas (2015)". IMDb. Retrieved 11 July 2026.
External links
[edit]- Giovane Gávio at FIVB.com
- Giovane Gávio at the European Volleyball Confederation
- Giovane Gávio at Beach Volleyball Database
- Giovane Gávio at Olympics.com
- Giovane Gávio at the Brazilian Olympic Committee (in Portuguese)
- Giovane Gávio at Olympedia
- Giovane Gávio at InterSportStats
- Profile at esporte.uol.com.br (in Portuguese)
- Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2011-07-06) (in Portuguese)
- Instituto Giovane Gávio (in Portuguese)
- Joinville Vôlei (in Portuguese)
Media related to Giovane Gávio at Wikimedia Commons
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