Carlos Javier Weber

Carlos Javier Weber
2010 as technical director of the national team
portrait
Date of birth	January 6, 1966
place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
size	180 cm
position	passing
societies
1973–1985 1986–1987 1987–1988 1988–1989 1989–1991 1991–1992 1992–1993 1993–1994 1994–1995 1995–1997 1998 1998–2000 2001–2002	River Plate Buenos Aires Gimnasia y Esgrima Buenos Aires Club Sportivo Italiano Palermo Volley Volley Lupi Santa Croce Volley Prato Pallavolo San Giorgio Mestre Naples Volley CA Vélez Sarsfield Buenos Aires Frigorífico Chapecó EC CA Vélez Sársfield Buenos Aires Ulbra / Canoas Unisul EC
National team
1985-2002	A national team
successes
1988 1990 1995 1996 1998, 1999 2000 2002	Olympic bronze World Cup sixth winner Pan American Games Olympic eighth Brazilian champion Olympic fourth World Cup sixth
Status: July 7, 2020

Carlos Javier Weber (born January 6, 1966 in Buenos Aires ) is a former Argentine volleyball player and current coach. During his playing days, he played 613 international matches. He took part in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and won the bronze medal with the team.

player

Weber started his career in Argentina at River Plate, where he graduated from all junior areas.

He played in Argentina, Italy and Brazil . In Italy he played for Club Sportivo Italiano , Palermo Volley , Volley Lupi Santa Croce , Volley Prato , Pallavolo San Giorgio Mestre and Naples Volley . After a stay with Vélez Sarsfield, he went to Brazil in the 1997/98 season. He played for Ulbra, where he won two Brazilian championships. In 1998 and 1999 he was voted the best player in the Brazilian SuperLiga. In his last year as a player he was also the technical director of his team Unisul.

National team

At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, he won the bronze medal with the national team. He also participated in the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney Olympics. At the Pan American Games in 1995 he won the gold medal. At the South American championships in 1992 he won the Konex Award as one of the five best volleyball players of the decade in Argentina.

Trainer

In 2003 he began his coaching career at Unisul, with which he won a Brazilian championship. For the 2005/06 season he went to Greece to Panathinaikos Athens and won the Greek championship. For the next season he came back to Argentina and signed a contract with Bolivar. With this team he won four Argentine championships and four ACLAV cups. From 2008 to 2013 he coached the Argentine men's national team and won three silver medals at the South American championships. In 2013 he went to VK Dynamo Krasnodar for one season . From 2014 to 2020 he was again the coach of Bolivar. He has been a trainer in Brazil at Funvic Taubaté since April 2020.

Successes (selection)

player

• Olympic Games: Bronze 1988
• Pan American Games : Gold 1995, Bronze 1991
• South American Championships: Silver 1987, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999
• Brazilian champion: 1997/98, 1998/99
• Brazilian Cup: 2002

Trainer

• Brazilian champion: 2003/04
• Greek champion: 2005/06
• Argentine champion: 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10, 2016/17
• ACLAV Cup: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
• Copa Master Argentina: 2012, 2015
• Torneo Super 8 Argentina: 2008
• South American Club Championship: 2010

Web links

• Carlos Javier Weber in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at volleybox.net (English)
• Profile at the Italian Volleyball League (Italian)
• Carlos Javier Weber in the database of Olympedia.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carlos Javier Weber in Italy. In: www.legavolley.it. Retrieved July 6, 2020 (Italian). 
2. ↑ Renan Dal Zotto explains Taubaté's choice of Javier Weber. In: www.olimpiatodia.com.br. Retrieved July 6, 2020 (Portuguese).