Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 3, 2013 – The Women´s
South American Volleyball Club Championship is currently being held at the
Coliseum Manuel Bonilla de Miraflores in Lima, Peru. The competition will run
from May 1 to 5 with the participation of five South American teams and is a
qualifier event for the FIVB Women´s Club World Championship, which will be
held in Zurich, Switzerland, from October 9 to 13.
The tournament in Lima is being played in a ‘round robin’ format and the club
with the highest score on the table will win the ticket to the World
Championship in October. The following teams are taking part in the
competition: Universidad César Vallejo (UCV) from Peru; Velez Sarsfield
(CVS) from Argentina, Unilever (UNI) from Brazil; the Club Boston College (CBC)
from Chile; and the Asunción Metropolitan University (AMU) from Paraguay.
Playing for the home team, Universidad César Vallejo, is Veronica
Contreras and Milagros Moy who return to
Peru after playing for more than 10 years in Europe. Mariane Fersola
and Sidarka Nunez from the Dominican
Republic as well as Gina Lopez, Alexandra Muñoz and Angelica Aquino are also
part of the team.
Brazil’s Superliga Champions are the favourite to win the competition. The most
representative figures from the team are "Fofão" (Beijing 2008
Olympic Champion), Natalia Pereira (London 2012 Olympic Champion) as well as
up-and-coming volleyball star Gabriela Braga Guimarães.
The Club Boston College, champion of the Chilean league, has Peru’s Keith
Meneses and Karla Ortiz playing for the first time after two seasons in Europe.
Argentina’s Club Velez Sarsfield has Argentina national team captain Jimena
Perez who has returned from the Greek league. Others players include Antonella
Bortolocci, Florencia Carlotto as well as Deportivo Wanka, Natalia San Matin.
Sol Piccolo is not taking part as she has been selected to compete in the Pan
American Cup in Guatemala in her class.
The majority of players in Paraguay’s Universidad Metropolitana de Asunción
club are in the youth category and coach Nicolás Sanabria does not have
reinforcements for the tournament.
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