Alison Cerutti

Alison Conte Cerutti (born 7 December 1985), known as Alison Cerutti or simply Alison, is a Brazilian beach volleyball player. He plays as a blocker. In 2011, along with Emanuel Rego he won the Swatch FIVB World Tour in Prague, Czech Republic. and the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal at the 2015 World Championships in Netherlands. and the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio alongside teammate Bruno Schmidt. In 2019, Alison partnered with Álvaro Morais Filho. The team won their first gold medal at the FIVB Kuala Lumpur event. The duo also competed in the Tokyo 2020 journey. Since 2021, Alison has been playing with Guto Carvalhaes.

Career

Alison initially played volleyball in the hall before he came at the age of 16 years as a training partner of José Loiola for beach volleyball. At first, he felt cumbersome and was nicknamed "Mammoth" after a character from the movie Ice Age. In October 2006, he played his first tournaments on the FIVB World Tour with Harley Marques. After the duo was still inferior to the "Country Quota" in Vitória, they landed ninth place at the Acapulco Open. Together with Bernardo Romano, Alison got third in the 2007 Challenger tournament in Cyprus and reached the main draw in Åland. Alison / Romano achieved the same the following year in Stare Jabłonki. Then they successively won the Challenger tournaments in Brno and Pärnu and the satellite tournament in Lausanne. At the Grand Slam in Gstaad, Alison played with Emanuel Rego and finished third. With Bernardo Romano, he was ninth in Guarujá. In the last two tournaments of the year, he competed with Pedro Cunha. After a fifth place in Dubai, Alison / Pedro won the Manama Open against the French Andy and Kevin Cès.