Ángel Dennis

Italian volleyball player

Ángel Dennis Díaz

Ángel Dennis during a volleyball match in Piacenza.

Personal information

Full name

Ángel Dennis

Nationality

Cuban
Italian

Born

(1977-06-13) 13 June 1977 (age 47)
Havana, Cuba

Height

1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)

Weight

89 kg (196 lb)

Volleyball information

Position

Outside hitter / Opposite

Current club

VOA/Morro da Fumaça

Number

7 (club)
7 (national team)

Career

Years	Teams
1998–2000 2003 2004 2004–2007 2007–2012 2012–2013 2013 2013–2016 2016 2016 2016–2017 2017–2020 2020–2022 2021–2022 2022–2023 2023–2024	Palermo Volley Playeros de San Juan ICOM Latina Lube Banca Macerata Cimone Modena Club Ciudad de Bolívar Anwar Club APAV Canoas Anwar Club Revivre Milano Lupi Santa Croce Sporting CP Pallavolo Macerata Al Jazira Sport Club Enosis Neon Paralimni VOA/Morro da Fumaça

National team

1996–2001

Cuba (212)

Honours

Representing Cuba

Men's volleyball
World Championship
	1998 Japan
World Grand Champions Cup
	2001 Japan	Team
	1997 Japan
World League
	1998 Milan
	1997 Moscow
	1999 Mar del Plata
Pan American Games
	1999 Winnipeg	Team
NORCECA Championship
	1997 Canada
	2001 Barbados
Central American and Caribbean Games
	1998 Maracaibo	Team

Last updated: 26 October 2023

Ángel Dennis (born 13 June 1977) is a Cuban-born Italian volleyball player. He played with the Cuban men's national volleyball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he finished in seventh place.^[1] He helped the Cuban team win the bronze medal at the 1998 FIVB World Championship in Japan.^[1]

Club volleyball

Dennis played for IVECO Palermo from 1998 to 2000.^[2] After a period of inactivity, Dennis returned to play in 2003-2004 for Latina Volley, before moving to Lube Banca Marche Macerata the following year, after a short stint in Qatar.^[2] With Lube he won a top national division and an Italian Supercup in 2006, and two CEV Cups (2005–2006).^[3] In 2017, Dennis signed a contract with Sporting CP.^[2]

2001 Defection

In 2001, Dennis was one of six players on the Cuban men's national volleyball team to leave a hotel they stayed at in Flanders for a tournament, and from there rode a train to Italy for political asylum.^[4] The other players were Leonel Marshall, Jorge Luis Hernández, Ihosvany Hernández, Yasser Romero, and Ramón Gato.^[4] Once they were granted asylum in Italy, this group was referred to as "the defectors".^[4]

Personal life

Dennis married Italian volleyball player Simona Rinieri.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Ángel Dennis". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Angel Dennis". Volleybox.net. Archived from the original on 23 March 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
^ "Angel Dennis". Volleybox.net. Archived from the original on 6 August 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c "The Defectors A Decade Later". Volleywood.net. 30 December 2011. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2023.