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Salvador Hidalgo Oliva

Cuban volleyball player (born 1985) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Salvador Hidalgo Oliva
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Salvador Hidalgo Oliva (born 27 December 1985) is a Cuban professional volleyball player, a member of Turkish Volleyball League club Spor Toto and plays as outside hitter.[1]

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He has won the Asian Championship in 2012 and the European trophy CEV Challenge Cup in 2023 and has been crowned Lebanon Champion, Chinese Champion, Qatar Champion, Turkish Champion and Greek Champion.

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Career

Clubs

Hidalgo Oliva grew up in Cuba and started playing volleyball here. In 2005 he left his home country and two years later played for the German Bundesliga club Netzhoppers Königs Wusterhausen.[2] In 2009, he moved to league rivals Berlin RV,[3] with whom he became German runner-up in 2011. In the same year, Hidalgo also received German citizenship. In the following years he played for various clubs around the world and won numerous titles.

From 2016 to 2018, Hidalgo Oliva played for the Polish first division club Jastrzębski Węgiel.[4][5] He became main player of the team and in half of season he achieved 6 individual awards in regular round for Most Valuable Player of the match. In 2018 he moved to Turkey to Fenerbahçe Istanbul[6] and won the national championship and cup double in his first season here.

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Style of Play

He is noted for his excellent service, having been named the top server of the year in the Asian Champions League in 2010 and 2012, as well as in the German, Polish and Turkish Championships where he won this award again. He is an excellent scorer and has won the best scorer of the year award in the CEV Challenge Cup in 2010 and the Polish Championship in 2017.

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