Taismary Agüero

Taismary Agüero
Personal information
Full name Taismary Agüero Leiva Botteghi
Nickname Tai, Fenomeno, Extraterrestre
Nationality  Italy
Born (1977-03-05) March 5, 1977
Yaguajay, Cuba
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 69 kg (152 lb)
Spike 322 cm (127 in)
Block 300 cm (120 in)
Volleyball information
Position Wing Spiker
Current club Volley 2002 Forlì
Number 12
National team
Cuba Cuba：1994 – 2001
Italy Italy：2007 – 2014
Honours
Women's Volleyball
Representing  Cuba
Olympic Games
1996 Atlanta Team
2000 Sidney Team
World Championships
1998 Japan Team
FIVB World Cup
1995 Japan
1999 Japan
Representing  Italy
FIVB World Cup
2007 Japan Team
FIVB World Grand Prix
2007 Ningbo Team
European Championships
2007 Belgium/Luxembourg Team
2009 Poland Team
Last updated: February 2010

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).

Life

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.

Career

Agüero had played for two season for Sirio Perugia from 1998 to 2000 then she played again for Sirio from 2001 to 2005. From 2005 to 2007 she has played for Asystel Novara. In season 2007/2008 she played for Türk Telekom club in Ankara, in season 2009/2010 she will play for Carnaghi Villa Cortese team in the Italian League. Now Agüero both in club and in national team played as right hitters, while with the Cuban national teams she was setter/hitter.

Titles

In the 1993 junior championship she was named MVP, Best Setter and best server. In 1995 and 1997 she won the Panamerican games with Cuba, and, in 1996 and 2000, the Summer Olympics games. She was Italian national champion in 2002/2003 and 2004/2005.

Playing for Italy, she won the 2007 European Championship, where she was also declared Most Valuable Player, sha has also won the gold medal at 2009 European volleyball Championship

Clubs

Individual awards

Awards
Preceded by
Poland Dorota Świeniewicz		 Most Valuable Player of
European Championship
2007 		Succeeded by
Netherlands Manon Flier
Preceded by
Brazil Fabiana Claudino		 Best Spiker of
FIVB World Grand Prix
2007 		Succeeded by
Cuba Daimí Ramírez
Preceded by
Russia Ekaterina Gamova		 Best Scorer of
FIVB World Grand Prix
2007 		Succeeded by
Japan Megumi Kurihara


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