American captain Angela McGinnis: “It was an amazing match. For a young team like ours, it is pretty important playing matches like these as this is the best way to improve. He had some problems against Germany but we were able to recoverâ€.
American head coach Hugh McCutcheon: “We are very happy with this win, specially after our bad performance against Germany. Puerto Rico has a good and was really hard to beat them. Now we have to start looking to Brazil, that will probably be our toughest rival in this Roundâ€.
Puerto Rican captain Vilmarie Mojica: “We got happy for Brazilian fans’ support and we hope they can help us again in the match against Germany. We made several mistakes in spiking and that struggled usâ€.
Puerto Rican head coach Carlos Cardona: “We did not play very well. Our team committed many mistakes and had an instable serve. We should have used more our middle-blockers in the spikesâ€.