Brazil hoping to get back to the platform at VNL 2024

Currently qualified for Paris 2024, the South Americans will pursue their fourth award in the competition

The Volleyball Countries Association 2024 is not far off and in a couple of additional days, the best public groups on earth will be conflicting all over the planet in the 6th version of the competition.

While a large number of the ladies’ public groups set to contend in the VNL 2024 have capability for the Paris Olympics as their principal objective in the occasion, that is not the situation with Brazil, who previously reserved their passes to the Games last year in the Volleyball Olympic Qualifier. The South Americans, all things considered, will be centered around getting back to the platform in the occasion in the wake of missing it out in 2023.

Brazil are one of the three public groups with the most awards won in the VNL, having ventured at the platform multiple times in five appearances. The South Americans took silver in 2019, 2021 and 2022. They were fifth in the debut release, in 2018, and rehashed the outcome last season, when they tumbled to second-put China in the quarterfinals.

Brazil have one of the most skilled programs of the VNL 2024, consolidating prepared veterans and youthful, anticipated competitors. Outside hitter Gabriela ‘Gabi’ Guimarães is their primary star and is viewed as by numerous quite possibly of the best player on the planet. The program got considerably more grounded in 2023, when, following five years, double cross Olympic hero Thaisa Menezes got back to shape an extremely impressive center blocker couple with Ana Carolina ‘Hymn’ da Silva. Setters Macris Carneiro and Roberta Ratzke carry more insight to the group while outside hitters Julia Bergmann and Ana Cristina Souza and inverse Kisy Nascimento are among the capable youthful players with huge jobs.

In the wake of sitting out of the 2022 FIVB Big showdown and showing up in only four coordinates of the VNL 2023 preceding going down with a knee injury, Ana Cristina Souza is back with the group this season. She had scored 78 focuses across four matches finally year’s VNL prior to getting sidelined and had a great club season with Fenerbahçe in the Turkish Association, assisting them with bringing home the championship. Remaining at 1.93m, the 20-year-old can play as an external hitter or as an inverse and can possibly part the group’s scoring load with Gabi.

Quite possibly of the most regarded mentor in worldwide volleyball, José ‘Zé Roberto’ Guimarães has been with Brazil’s public group for north of 20 years, having assumed control over back in 2003. The 69-year-old’s stretch with the group has been among the most useful throughout the entire existence of the game as under his direction the South Americans won three Olympic decorations (gold in Beijing 2008 and London 2012 and silver in Tokyo 2020), four Big showdown awards and nine FIVB World Amazing Prix titles.

Brazil will be at home in Rio de Janeiro in the initial seven day stretch of the VNL 2024 and will confront Canada in their most memorable match, on May 14. The South Americans will have other intense adversaries during that week, meeting Korea, ruling Olympic bosses the US and ruling title holders Serbia. From Rio, they will move to Macao, China, on week two, when they are booked to confront Olympic hopefuls Japan, the Netherlands, Italy and Thailand. Brazil will finish their Fundamental Stage schedule in Hong Kong, China, with matches against Poland, Germany, Bulgaria and reigning champs Türkiye.