Jaqueline Carvalho is a Brazilian volleyball player, a member of the Brazilian team that won the gold at the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 and London 2012. She is also a two-time gold medalist in the World Grand Champions Cup, five times in the World Grand Prix, and once in the South American Championship.
Jaqueline Maria Pereira de Carvalho Endres, or just Jaqueline Carvalho, was born on December 31, 1983, in Recife, Brazil. She started volleyball at the age of 11, joining in 1996 for Recife Volei and was one of the most prominent Brazilian youth players. She was awarded the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the 2001 FIVB U20 World Championship.
Jaqueline Carvalho was scouted by Gremio de Volei Osasco in 2001. The same season at the age of 17, she was called up to the Brazilian Youth Volleyball Team. She was awarded the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the 2001 FIVB U20 World Championship. However, she suffered a knee injury and was out of play for six months. She returned to volleyball only in 2002, but due to recovery missed most of the major championships until 2004.
At the end of 2004, already recovered, but without playing rhythm, Jaqueline Carvalho transferred to a club in Rio de Janeiro, Rexona/Ades. After a season playing at the club, ended up in the team’s starting lineup and got her call-up to the Brazilian national team in April 2005. In 2005, at the Grand Prix, she was appointed as the star of the selection, becoming the most complete player on the team. In 2006, Jaqueline Carvalho won the silver at the World Championship in Japan, being chosen by critics as the best Brazilian in the championship. She also won another Superliga Brasileira de Voleibol Feminino for her team in 2006–07.
In 2006/2007, Jaqueline Carvalho moved to Italy to play for Monte Schiavo Banca Marche Jesi. In July 2007, on the eve of the 2007 Pan-American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Jaqueline Carvalho, holder of the Brazilian national team, was caught in the anti-doping test. The accusation stemmed from an examination taken during the finals of the Italian championship, the previous month. She was preventively suspended for 60 days. During this period, there were hearings to clarify the fact, and the athlete used as a defense the fact that she had taken a tea for cellulite, which had the substance sibutramine, prohibited for athletes. In the first decision of the judgment, a punishment of 9 months was given to Jaqueline Carvalho, which meant the absence of the athlete in most of the competitions in 2008 and the return on the eve of the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008. However, after a new assessment on the penalty her ban was reduced from 9 months to 3 months and Jaqueline Carvalho had already been suspended since July.
Thus, she transferred to Grupo Murcia 2005 in Spain to play in the 2007/2008 season, where she won the Spanish championship.
In 2008, Jaqueline Carvalho returned to the Brazilian Women’s Volleyball Team, participating in the 2008 Grand Prix in Yokohama and Beijing 2008 Olympics, winning gold in both. That same year, the Brazilian volleyball player returned to Italy, this time to play for Scavolini Pesaro in the 2008/2009 season, becoming the Italian champion and the best player in the championship final. The following year (2009), she returned to Brazil to play for Sollys Nestle/Osasco, where she became five times Brazilian champion. She stayed in Osasco for another 3 seasons, where she won another Brazilian title as Team Captain in the 2011/2012 season, being one of the main players and scorers of the Paulista team.
In August 2012, the Brazilian national volleyball team won its second gold medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Jaqueline Carvalho, the main spiker, became a two-time Olympic champion, entering the history of world volleyball.
Shortly after the Brazilian runner-up in April 2013 for the Sollys Nestle/Osasco team, Jaqueline Carvalho announced that she was pregnant. After giving birth, she returned to physical activities. Jaqueline Carvalho returned to the national team too. She quickly recovered and, with the national team, won the tenth title during the 2014 Volleyball Grand Prix and the bronze medal at the 2014 Volleyball Women’s World Championship held in Italy, both as a starting player. With no options for her volleyball career at clubs in the state of Sao Paulo, and wishing to stay in Brazil, Jaqueline Carvalho opted to accept the proposal from Camponesa/Minas, where she played formerly.
In 2015/2016 she was hired by the SESI-SP team for having had a great season playing for Minas in the previous year.
In 2016/2017, the volleyball player was rehired by Camponesa/Minas, who led the team to another exciting semi-final. In 2016, the player was called up as a “reserve” for the Rio 2016 Olympics, marking her third call to an Olympics. On Friday, July 13, 2018, Jaqueline Carvalho officially announced, through her official page on Instagram, her “retirement” from the Brazilian women’s volleyball team.
In the 2017/2018 season, Jaqueline Carvalho was a key player in the reception, defense, and attack of the team Volei Hinode Barueri from Sao Paulo, Vice Champion of Sao Paulo, and 5th in the Superliga.
After a year without playing, Jaqueline Carvalho signed a contract for the 2019/2020 season with Osasco/Sao Cristovao Saude, returning to the club after six years and thus being one of the most talked about signings of the season. She remains in Osasco for the 2020/2021 season, after excelling the previous year not only in the past but also in the attack. She became Champion Paulista in 2020 and Third Place in the Superliga, alongside her companions in Osasco.
Jaqueline Carvalho is one of the top Brazilian female volleyball players. She is a five-time Brazilian Superliga champion, four-time South American Club champion, Italian League champion, and Club World champion. Jaqueline Carvalho is MVP at the 2009 South America Club Championship, 2009/2010 Brazilian Superliga, and 2011 South America Club Championship.
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