In an association with Sports for Youth Foundation, Play Sports received December 10th, female volleyball players from US. They spent 12 days in Rio de Janeiro with us.
During this period, they visited the main points of this marvelous city, watched a game of Rexona, one of the best Brazilian women volleyball teams, trainned by the coach Bernardo Resende, gold medal in the Athens Olympic Games and danced samba in Salgueiro Samba School. See the pictures of this group
He coaches since 1981 at the University of Connecticut. The greek Len Tsantiris, talks to Play Sports about their practicing in Brazil.
"Everybody enjoyed the trip, we learned a lot of things, we had good food, we had a lot of new things that we hadnīt had before and we played a lot of soccer!", says Len Tsantiris.
She is in her fourth season as assistant coach for Len Tsantiris and in her fifth participation of UConn women’s soccer coaching staff. The assistant coach Sarah Barnes talks to Play Sports about the games in Brazil and the impression she had about our teams.
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the arriving: 'I think itīs gonna be a very good trip. Iīm very excited
to see how it works. The place is so pretty and itīs awesome because there
are people playing beach soccer all the time. I think thatīs so cool !
Jessica Gjersten "Everyone was very
nice. Francisco and Cesar were both friendly people, excelent guides. Good
interpreters especially with the language"
Brittany Barakat Play Sports in Brazil
is: "A once in a lifetime opportunty and I think Brazil has much to
offer athletes!"
Zahra Jalalian "I would love
to play in Maracanã.Watching Brazilian football is different than American
football because people are awesome to watch it. And itīs very exciting. Here,
itīs like the life and we donīt have it in America because soccer is not a big
sport there"
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During this period, they visited the main points of this marvelous city, watched a game of Rexona, one of the best Brazilian women volleyball teams, trainned by the coach Bernardo Resende, gold medal in the Athens Olympic Games and danced samba in Salgueiro Samba School. 
He coaches since 1981 at the University of Connecticut. The greek Len Tsantiris, talks to Play Sports about their practicing in Brazil. 
She is in her fourth season as assistant coach for Len Tsantiris and in her fifth participation of UConn women’s soccer coaching staff. The assistant coach Sarah Barnes talks to Play Sports about the games in Brazil and the impression she had about our teams. 
