Gilberto Amauri de Godoy Filho

Gilberto Amauri de Godoy Filho (born 23 December 1976 in Londrina) is a retired Brazilian professional volleyball player. He is usually known as known as Giba. He played as an outside hitter.

Gilberto Amauri de Godoy Filho

Gilberto Amauri de Godoy Filho
Personal information
Born	(1976-12-23) December 23, 1976
Occupation	Volleyball player

Career

For much of the 2000s, he was widely regarded as one of the best volleyball players in the world. During his professional career he played in Brazil, Italy, Russia, Argentina and briefly in the United Arab Emirates. He is mostly remembered for his successes with the Brazilian national team.

With the national team he won a total of 8 South American Championships, 3 America's Cups, 8 World League titles, 2 World Grand Champions Cups, three World Championships (2002, 2006, 2010) and the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he was the non-playing captain.

During summer 2014, Giba retired from professional volleyball at the age of 37.

Other websites

• (in English) Site non officiel Archived 2016-04-22 at the Wayback Machine
• (in Portuguese) Blog do Giba Archived 2009-05-12 at the Wayback Machine