Facundo Conte

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Facundo Conte
Facundo Conte.jpg
2011 in Piacenza
portrait
Date of birth August 25, 1989
place of birth Vicente López (Buenos Aires), Argentina
size 1.98 m
position Acceptance / outside
societies
2005–2006
2006–2007
2007–2008
2007–2009
2009–2010
2010–2011
2011
2011–2012
2012–2013
from 2013 		Rosario Sonder
Metropolitana
Gimnasia y Esgrima de Buenos Aires
SP Catania
Zinella Bologna
Lube Macerata
ER San Giustino
Acqua Paradiso Monza
VK Dynamo Krasnodar
Skra Bełchatów
National team
2007-2008
since 2008 		Junior national team
A national team
successes
2008
2011
2012
2014 		South American Champion Junior
Winner Challenge Cup
Olympic Participant
Polish Champion

As of April 1, 2015

Facundo Conte (born August 25, 1989 in Vicente López (Buenos Aires) ) is an Argentine volleyball player .

Career

Facundo Conte is the son of volleyball coach Hugo Conte , who won bronze as a player at the 1988 Olympic Games . He started his own career in 2005 with Rosario Sonder and played for Metropolitana the next season . With the Argentine juniors he was fourth in the 2007 World Cup and in 2008 the youngsters won the South American Championship. The outside attacker first played at Gimnasia y Esgrima de Buenos Aires in 2007/08 and then moved to the Italian second division club SP Catania . In 2008, he made his debut in the America's Cup in the senior team . After he had played another season in Italy's second division at Zinella Bologna in 2009/10 , he moved to the first division club Lube Macerata . There he won the Challenge Cup in 2011 . Then Conte first went to ER San Giustino , but in December 2011 he moved on to Acqua Paradiso Monza . With Argentina, he reached the quarter-finals at the 2012 Olympic Games . After the tournament he moved to the Russian club VK Dynamo Krasnodar . His girlfriend at the time, the Czech national player Helena Havelková , also played in Krasnodar. Conte has been under contract with the Polish club Skra Bełchatów since 2013 , with whom he became Polish champion in 2014 and finished fourth in the 2014/15 Champions League .

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personal data
SURNAME Conte, Facundo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Vicente López (Buenos Aires)