Bernardinho

Bernardinho in 2016, photo by Celso Pupo/www.bigstockphoto.com/

Birth Name: Bernardo Rocha de Rezende

Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro City, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Date of Birth: August 25, 1959

Ethnicity: Brazilian [Portuguese, including Azorean, likely some Slovenian, other]

Bernardo Rezende, also known as Bernardinho, is a Brazilian volleyball coach and player.

Bernardinho is the son of Mariangela (Rocha) and Condorcet Pereira de Rezende.

Bernardinho is married to retired volleyball player Fernanda Venturini. Bernardinho has a son, volleyball player Bruno Rezende, with his former wife, player Vera Mossa, and two children with Fernanda.

His Portuguese ancestry includes Azorean Portuguese from the islands of Faial and Terceira.

Bernardinho’s paternal grandfather was Octavio/Otávio Murgel de Rezende/Resende (the son of Astolpho/Astolfo Vieira de Rezende/Resende and Olga Murgel). Octávio was born in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Astolpho was born in Minas Gerais, the son of José Vieira de Resende e Silva and Feliciana Vieira Dutra Nicácio. Olga was the daughter of Maurício Murgel, who was born in Fiume, Austria-Hungary (now Rijeka, Croatia), and likely was an ethnic Slovenian, and of Maximiana Tertuliana Benedicta do Bonsucesso.

Bernardinho’s paternal grandmother was named Helena Pereira.

Sources: http://www.museudapelada.com

Genealogy of Bernardinho’s paternal great-grandmother, Olga Murgel – http://www.geni.com