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Elvis Contreras
Elvis Dalsires Contreras de los Santos (born 20 July 1979, in Tamayo),[1] also known as Elvis Contreras, is a male volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who won the silver medal with the Dominican Republic men's national volleyball team at the 2006 Pan-American Cup in Mexicali, Mexico. CareerContreras won the Best Spiker award at the 2001 NORCECA Championship,[2] and Best Scorer at the 2005 version.[3] At the 2007 NORCECA Championship, Contreras was awarded Best Receiver, and his national team finished in 5th place.[4] Contreras won the Dominican Republic "2007 Volleyball Player of the Year".[5] In mid-June 2012, the Poland club Zaksa Kędzierzyn-Koźle announced his joining for the 2012–13 season.[6] Contreras won the bronze medal in the 2012 Men's Pan-American Volleyball Cup playing with his national team, and also won the Best Receiver and Best Server awards.[7] Contreras led the Technocrats to the title of the 2013 Caribbean Volleyball League,[8] also winning the Most Valuable Player, Best Scorer, Best Spiker, and Best Server awards in the Trinidad and Tobago-based tournament.[9] He then joined the Brazilian club Funvic Taubaté.[10] In August 2014, Contreras announced that he would retire from the national team after the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games.[11] At these games, the Dominican Republic won the gold medal for the first time,[12] and Contreras was awarded the Most Valuable Player, Best Outside Spiker, and Best Scorer.[13] Clubs
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