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 After four seasons playing overseas,  Fernanda Garay agreed to return to the Brazilian Superliga.The 30-year-old wing-spiker has signed for the season and is the new reinforcement of the Dentil / Praia Clube,  from Uberlândia.After playing for some of the major volleyball forces in the world,  Fe Garay returns to Brazil more experienced and with a goal: the title of Brazilian Superliga."After so many years overseas, I felt i...

All squads set for Rio 2016.BrazilSETTERS: Dani Lins, Fabiola, Roberta; OPPOSITE: Sheila; MIDDLE BLOCKERS: Fabiana, Thaisa, Juciely, Adenizia; RECEIVERS: Natalia, Fe Garay, Jaqueline, Gabi; LIBERO: Leia; COACH: Ze Roberto.USA SETTERS: Thompson, Glass, Lloyd; OPPOSITES: Lowe, Murphy; MIDDLE BLOCKERS: Akinradewo, Dietzen, Adams; RECEIVERS: Larson, Hill, Robinson; LIBERO: Banwarth; COACH: Kiraly.Russia SETTERS: Kosyanenko, Vetrov...

Brazil beat Russia on this Thursday and now wait for the opponent of the semifinal, the will came out of USA , China and the Netherlands key.Synonymous of 5 sets, Brazil and Russia are perhaps the greatest rivalry in world volleyball and on the morning of Thursday, another chapter of this story was written.Russia had lost only one game in the group stage of the Grand Prix and made his debut in the final stage of the competition. Brazil, which los...

Brazil faced Thailand this morning in Bangkok in the first leg of the final stage of the Grand Prix in 2016.The hostesses started strong, and with the crowd support  made a great first set. The Brazil was gradually adapting to the Thai game system and at the end closed the set at 26 x 24.After a balanced first set, it seemed that the game would be tight, but it was not what happened.With a good service, a well balanced defense and especially...

Brazil has opened its participation in the Grand Prix  a  little bit nervous and out of shape. Against the Italian, the team coached by Jose Roberto Guimaraes had difficulties in the first set and ended up losing the partial. After the break, Brazilian get back on track and won the following two partial easily. In the fourth set, the Italian took advantage of lack of focus of the Brazilian team and almost took the game to a tie-bre...

Brazil opens on Thursday its participation in women's volleyball Grand Prix in 2016.WORLD GRAND PRIXThe green and yellow team will face in Rio de Janeiro the National Teams from Italy, Japan and Serbia for the three first games  of the competition.In the first challenge, they will face Italy, on Friday for the second round, the Brazilian get Japan and end the first stage on Sunday against Serbia. The three teams are q...

Brazil has against the Dominicans its first test towards the Grand Prix and 2016 Olympic Games.The Brazilian Women's Volleyball National Team landed yesterday afternoon in Sao Jose dos Pinhais,  in the metropolitan area of Curitiba, for his first test in this preparatory stage for the Grand Prix and the Olympic Games.Training with full force since May 9, the team coached by Jose Roberto Guimaraes, had about 14 days to give rhythm to Fernanda...

Brazil National Team has its path defined in the pursuit of its 3rd gold medal in Olympic history.This monday where defined the National Teams that will be part of each of the two groups of the first phase of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.Based on the current position in the ranking of the FIVB, the teams were divided into two groups,  A and B. Brazil, as the host country has become an automatic top seeds, which left the United St...

After six years pursuing it,  Dinamo Moscow finally conquer the Russian Superleague.After defeating the Krasnodar on Monday afternoon at the semifinals, the Dinamo just had to wait for the opponent to come out of the second semifinal between Kazan and Uralochka.The team of Nikolai Karpol, the "underdog", but with a background of 25 Russians titles, took no notice of the current champion and assured  its place in the final of the competi...

It has come to end the regular phase of the Russian Superleague Women's Volleyball, the teams played over 22 rounds in search of a spot in the Final Four of the competition.Dinamo Moscow had the best regular season campaign. Undefeated, the team won 58 of 60 possible points, nine ahead of second place and lost only 8 sets in the competition. Natalia Goncharova finished as top scorer of the event, scoring 369 points with 50% success in 18 matches....