Bernardo Rezende

Brazilian volleyball coach and former player, nicknamed Bernardinho, the most successful team sport coach of all time, with 48 medals overall. He is the current coach of the female volleyball team Rio de Janeiro Vôlei Clube. Rezende is one of the most successful coaches in the history of volleyball, accumulating more than 30 major titles in a twenty-year career directing the Brazilian male and female teams.

Rezende has won two Olympic gold medals during his coaching career, as head coach of Brazil men's national volleyball team at 2004 Athens and 2016 Rio Olympics. He also won two bronze medals as head coach of Brazil women's national volleyball team at the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Rezende played volleyball from 1979 to 1985, and competed in two Olympics, winning a silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He also finished fifth at the 1980 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal at the 1983 Pan American Games. Rezende played in Fluminense, Volley Atlantica Boavista, Flamengo and Vasco da Gama from 1972 to 1988. With Atlântica Boavista he was the winner of Brazil Super League in 1981.

Since 1999, Rezende was married to volleyball player Fernanda Venturini, with whom he has two daughters. They divorced in 2020. From his previous marriage to player Vera Mossa he had a son who is currently the setter and captain of the Brazilian volleyball team, Bruno Rezende (Bruninho).