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Brazilian volleyball superstar GIBA interviewed by the Moscow news

After six years in Italy, Brazil's National Olympic volleyball team captain and MVP "GIBA" decided to move to the city of Iskra in Russia to play professionally there.

Very few athletes today boast a chest as heavily decorated with medals as Brazil's lanky wing-spiker Giba, the man widely recognized as the best volleyball player on the planet. Giba's regalia include an Olympic gold medal, two world championship titles, seven South American titles, six World League victories and many other trophies. Moreover, in recent years he's been regularly scooping up MVP titles in nearly every tournament he has played.

Moscow News sat down to talk with him about his career changing decision. click Brazil's Most Valuable men's Volleyball Player GIBA to read the article.

Be sure to check out Andrea Zorzi's interview with Brazilian volleyball superstar GIBA.
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Volleyball Video interview with Shoici Yanagimoto, Japan's Head Coach, Zoran Terzic, Serbian Head Coach and Massimo Barbolini, Italian Head Coach

Andrea Zorzi is one of the world’s most famous and highly accomplished men’s volleyball players.

Andrea has made a total of 325 presences with the Italian men’s national team. A silver medalist in the Atlanta Summer Olympics in 1996, Zorzi has played for almost all the major volleyball clubs of Italy, including Maxicono Parma and Sisley Treviso, where he won many titles. In 1991 the FIVB named Andrea Zorzi, known internationally as “Zorro”, the World's Best Player”.

Currently, Andrea Zorzi is a freelance journalist and technical commentator, working as a special endorser and web content creator in partnership with the FIVB - reporting, writing, and interviewing the world’s most elite coaches and players, providing an innovative and much broader technical analysis of the FIVB’s top 2007 events specifically the World League, World Grand Prix and World Cup.

This new approach contains one video interview entitled “Ten minutes with ….”, followed by written commentary and match analysis given by Andrea Zorzi after each competition.

Andrea Zorzi’s, years of playing in elite, world class competition, his affable personality, his insider’s knowledge of the game coupled with the respect of the players and coaches he interviews, makes him the perfect volleyball tour guide “to follow” for the volleyball coach, player or fan looking to really get behind the scenes and discover the process world class teams, players and coaches take when developing their strategic and tactical plans for their matches.

By asking the questions that other journalists don’t - Zorzi invites us to “Follow Him” on his unique multimedia journey behind the doors of his exclusive volleyball “spogliatoi” locker room.

Let’s “Follow him” shall we…. as Zorzi interviews…Shoici Yanagimoto (Japan Coach), Zoran Terzic (Serbia Coach) and Massimo Barbolini (Italian Coach)

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