Raúl Lozano (volleyball)

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Raúl Lozano
Personal information
Full name	Raúl Lucio Lozano
Born	(1956-09-03) 3 September 1956 La Plata, Argentina
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Coaching information
Current team	Ukraine
Previous teams coached Years Teams 1974–1978 1978–1981 1981–1983 1983–1987 1988–1989 1989–1990 1991–1992 1992–1994 1994–1997 1997–1998 1998–2000 1999–2000 2000–2001 2002–2003 2003–2004 2005–2008 2009–2011 2015–2016 2016–2017 2017–2019 2022–2024 2024– Estudiantes de La Plata Esgrima La Plata Obras Sanitarias Ferro Carril Oeste Rex Pordenone CE.DI.SA Salerno Olio Venturi Spoleto Misura Milano Spain Volley Lube Iveco Palermo Spain Sisley Treviso Iraklis Thessaloniki Volley Lube Poland Germany Czarni Radom Iran China JT Thunders Ukraine
Volleyball information
Position	Setter
Honours Men's volleyball Head coach Poland FIVB World Championship 2006 Japan Head coach Germany European League 2009 Portimão Head coach Ukraine European League 2024 Osijek

Raúl Lucio Lozano (born 3 September 1956) is an Argentine professional volleyball coach and former player. He serves as head coach for the Ukraine national team.

Personal life

He is married to Laura. On 2 February 1996, his wife gave birth to their son Matias, who was born in Barcelona.

Career as coach

Lozano with Volley Milano winner two gold medal in FIVB Club World Championship. He directed the national teams of Spain in 1994-1997 and 1999-2000, 2000-2001 Volley Treviso and Germany in 2008-2011. He won two European Cups (with Milan and Palermo, respectively) as well as the Italian National League with Sisley Treviso. He led Spain to a silver medal finish in the World University Games in Japan and a fifth-place finish in the World League and World Cup in 1999. Lozano in 2005-2008 worked with Poland national volleyball team. In 2006 led Poland to silver medal of the World Championship 2006. On December 6, 2006 received a state award granted by the Polish President Lech Kaczyński – Knight's Cross of Polonia Restituta for outstanding contribution to the development of Polish sport, for achievements in training.

In April 2015 he signed a contract with Polish club Cerrad Czarni Radom. After parting ways with the Serbian Slobodan Kovac, the Iranian federation chose Raul Lozano as his replacement. On November 17, 2015 he has been officially named as head coach of the Iran national volleyball team. He led Iran to their first appearance at the Summer Olympics in 2016 Rio. Lozano after one year stayed in Asia, Raul Lozano has signed on as the new head coach of the Chinese national team, which makes him the program's first-ever foreign head coach.

Honours

As a coach

• CEV Champions League
  • 2000–01 – with Sisley Treviso
• FIVB Club World Championship
  • Treviso 1992 – with Misura Milano
• CEV Cup
  • 1992–93 – with Misura Milano
  • 1993–94 – with Milan Volley
• CEV Challenge Cup
  • 1998–99 – with Iveco Palermo
• Domestic
  • 1981–82 Argentine Cup, with Obras Sanitarias
  • 1982–83 Argentine Championship, with Obras Sanitarias
  • 1984–85 Argentine Championship, with Ferro Carril Oeste
  • 1986–87 Argentine Championship, with Ferro Carril Oeste
  • 2000–01 Italian SuperCup, with Sisley Treviso
  • 2000–01 Italian Championship, with Sisley Treviso
• Universiade
  • 1995 Summer Universiade, with Spain

State awards

• 2006: Knight's Cross of Polonia Restituta

External links

• Coach profile at the European Volleyball Confederation
• Coach profile at LegaVolley.it (in Italian)
• Coach profile at Volleybox.net