“Playing with Leila is an opportunity to get back to the international scene after being away for two years. We form a very competitive team, which has experience and determination as main qualities” said Sandra Pires, whose former partner, Virna, has other plans for 2008.”
“When we ended our pair, I didn’t think about playing the World Tour unless I met a pair which was really worth it. "
"Qualifying to the Olympics is very hard. One place is well assured, and it belongs to Juliana and Larissa. It is even harder for us, because we will begin the tournaments playing the country quota (a preliminary tournament among pairs from the same country), then there will be the qualifications and, if we win, we will move on to the events. But we want to try, adds Sandra.”
Olympian Sandra Pires about becoming partners with Brazilian teammate Leila Barros to try and qualify for the Beijing Olympic Beach Volleyball tournament.
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April Chapple is a freelance copywriter for volleyball products and promotions, columnist for USA Volleyball and the American Volleyball Coaches Association Coaching Volleyballmagazine and author of numerous online articles on playing and coaching volleyball. Author of the upcoming ebook "How to Stop Serving Like a Wimp" April's volleyball sites are volleyballvoices.com, volleyballvoyeur.com, beijingolympicvolleyball.com, and aprilsbeachvolleyballog.com. She can be reached at april@volleyballvoices.com
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