| Carol Gattaz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Caroline de Oliveira Saad Gattaz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | July 27, 1981 São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil |
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| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Middle-Blocker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current club | Rexona-Ades | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2003– | Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Caroline de Oliveira Saad Gattaz, better known as Carol Gattaz (born July 27, 1981), is a female volleyball player from Brazil.[1] She was born in São José do Rio Preto.[1] Gattaz won the World Grand Prix three times in a row.[1][2]
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Before playing volleyball, as a teenager, Gattaz played futsal, defending her city's club América-SP, where she played as a striker. Still in high school, she started playing volleyball.[3]
Gattaz, who plays as a middle blocker,[4] started her career defending São Caetano, then moved to Rexona-Ades in 2000.[5] After leaving Rexona-Ades in 2001, she played for several clubs, before joining Finasa/Osasco in 2004, when she won the Superliga Brasileira de Voleibol, she left the club after the 2006–2007 season.[6] In 2007, she moved to Italy, where she played for Monte Schiavo, returning in the following season to Brazil, to defend Rexona-Ades again.[5]
Defending the national team, she won the South American Volleyball Championship in 2003 and in the 2005,[2] and the World Grand Prix in 2004, 2005 and 2006.[1][2]