VOLLEYBALL PLAYER

Fofão

1970 - Today

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Hélia Rogério de Souza (born 10 March 1970), nicknamed Fofão, is a Brazilian female retired volleyball player who competed for her country's national team in five consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992. She won a gold medal in 2008 and twice won a bronze medal, in 1996 and 2000. She also claimed the gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games. She is nicknamed Fofão because of her large cheeks similar to a famous character of a 1980s children's TV program in Brazil named "Fofão". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Fofão is the 110th most popular volleyball player (down from 98th in 2024), the 1,468th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 1,305th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Brazilian Volleyball Player.

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Among VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS

Among volleyball players, Fofão ranks 110 out of 199. Before her are Andrija Gerić, Ricardo Lucarelli, Yelena Godina, Jelena Nikolić, Benjamin Toniutti, and Alessandro Fei. After her are Jaqueline Carvalho, Luigi Mastrangelo, Danielle Scott-Arruda, Tsvetan Sokolov, Emanuele Birarelli, and Stefana Veljković.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Fofão ranks 1,025. Before her are Elfi Eder, Ömürbek Babanov, Dirk van der Ven, Barbara Albert, Andrey Tikhonov, and Gil Young-ah. After her are Anatoly Laryukov, Elien Meijer, Hideki Katsura, Miguel Ángel Benítez, Robia LaMorte, and Matt Barlow.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Fofão ranks 1,468 out of 2,236. Before her are Killing of Jean Charles de Menezes (1978), Heberty Fernandes de Andrade (1988), Suzana Herculano-Houzel (null), Eduardo Marques (1976), Mariano (1986), and Danni Suzuki (1977). After her are Ataliba (1979), Jaqueline Carvalho (1983), Leandro Guilheiro (1983), Ernani Pereira (1978), Léo Matos (1986), and Kléber Laube Pinheiro (1990).

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Among VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS In Brazil

Among volleyball players born in Brazil, Fofão ranks 18. Before her are Walewska Oliveira (1979), Sheilla Castro (1983), Wallace de Souza (1987), Ana Carolina da Silva (1991), and Ricardo Lucarelli (1992). After her are Jaqueline Carvalho (1983), Sandra Pires (1973), Leandro Vissotto (1983), Nalbert Bitencourt (1974), Marianne Steinbrecher (1983), Fabiana Claudino (1985), and Rosamaria Montibeller (1994).

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