Luizomar de Moura is the new head coach of the Cuban women’s national team, which is preparing for the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship serving off on August 22. The Brazilian trainer signed a four-year contract and took over the number 27 team in the FIVB World Ranking some three weeks before the Caribbean team begins its World Championship campaign.
59-year-old Luizomar has had plenty of coaching experience at both the national team and the club team level. Kenya was the previous national team he was in charge of, leading them to the continental title at the 2023 CAVB Women’s African Championship, as well as to qualifying for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the 2022 World Championship and the 2023 Volleyball Challenger Cup. In 2017, Luizomar led Peru to a continental bronze at the CSV Women’s South American Championship. For many years, the Brazilian coach was at the helm of various age-group national selections in his country, where his best achievement was the 2011 FIVB Women's Junior Volleyball World Championship silver, in addition to numerous continental titles.
Luizomar has been at the helm of the Brazilian club team Osasco Sao Cristovao Saude for almost two decades now. In 2012, he steered them to the title at the FIVB Volleyball Women’s Club World Championship. They also took club worlds silver in 2010 and bronze in 2011, in addition to multiple continental titles and national trophies, including this year’s golden double with both the Brazilian Superliga and the Brazil Cup crowns.
Luizomar joined the coaching staff of the Cuban team immediately and is already working with them at the 2025 Women’s Volleyball Pan American Cup, which served off on Sunday in Colima, Mexico, where Cuba are in a pool with Peru, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Costa Rica. At the World Championship in Thailand later this month, the Caribbean squad will face Belgium, Italy and Slovakia in Pool B in Phuket.
