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05/05/03
Uol Esporte

2003 Feminine Selection Trains For the First Time as a Complete Group
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On one side, you have the experience and the maturity. On the other, youth and the will to learn. The meeting of Virna and Fabiana in the feminine Brazilian selection of v�lei was filled with compliments, admiration and advice.

Together with Paula, Valeskinha and Daniela, the two players were presented to the technician Marco Aur�lio Motta, last sunday and in the morning, they had carried through physical examinations and, in the afternoon, went straight to training.

Now with 15 athletes, the group is complete and continues its preparations, in Rio De Janeiro, for the first two challenges of this season: the Montreux Volley Masters, from 03 to 08 of June, in Switzerland, and the Grand Prix, from 18 of July to 10 of August, in Asia.

With the experience and the weight of the bronze medals in the Atlanta/96 and Sidney/2000 Olympic Games, the Virna, 31 years, happy to return to the Selection after being away for one year.

But the joy of the Fabiana is also great. only 18 years old, the player joins the main selection wanting to learn with the team.

Happy to return, Virna waits to help the selection conquer new matches. "I want to help Brazil, again, to go up in the p�dio in the international competitions and to come back to the top three powers of v�lei world-wide. Voleibol feminine necessary Brazilian of this. I arrive very motivated. Still more that we have this new roster of players arriving, that I only knew to play against ", says Virna, refering to Fabiana.
For Virna, the style and the power of Fabiana will be important for the future of voleibol Brazilian. "She is the Brazilian Cuban. Brazil needed a player like her: tall, with potential and great personality. With certainty, she wants to learn sufficiently and her youth also goes in helping them ", praises the aggressor.

Still young, Fabiana knows that this time in her career is for learning. "It is a new experience. Everything happened so fast that I did not know what i was feeling. I started to play v�lei only four years ago and I am already in the adult selection. With certainty, it will be an excellent training for my career ", discloses the player.

Elect the revelation of Superliga, Fabiana already accumulates prizes in the small career. In 2001, player was the best aggressor and most efficient in the blockade of infanto-youthful the world-wide championship, in which the Brazilian selection was runner-up.

Happy with its performance, Fabiana does not hide its motto in the main selection. "Since I arrived here until today, my main focus is to train, to train and to train", complete the player of 1,93m.