Brazilian teams in reshuffle ahead of 2012 season
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 25, 2012 – Beijing 2008 Olympic Games silver medallist Marcio Araujo and FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCH World Tour 2008 champion Pedro Salgado will join forces for the 2012 season while the latter’s two sisters, Carolina and Maria Clara, will split for the first time since 2003 after a number of Brazilian tandems were shaken up ahead of the start of the FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCH World Tour.
Meanwhile, Marcio’s former partner, Fabio Luiz Magalhaes, will also have a new partner in two-time FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCH Junior World Championship runner-up Alvaro Filho.
With Carolina set to take much of the season off to have her baby, Maria Clara will partner 2000 Sydney Olympic Games volleyball bronze medallist Raquel Peluci. Elsewhere, Olympian Renata Ribeiro will also have a new team mate after ending her partnership with Priscilla Lima. She will join 27-year-old Elize Maia, while Lima will team up with Izabel Bezerra.
Meanwhile, FIVB Beach Volleyball Men’s SWATCH world champions Alison Cerutti and Emanuel Rego; and Ricardo Santos and Pedro Cunha will turn out for the men and women’s Swatch world champions Juliana da Silva Felisberta and Larissa França; and Talita Antunes and Maria Elisa Antonelli step out for the women.
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Meanwhile, Marcio’s former partner, Fabio Luiz Magalhaes, will also have a new partner in two-time FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCH Junior World Championship runner-up Alvaro Filho.
With Carolina set to take much of the season off to have her baby, Maria Clara will partner 2000 Sydney Olympic Games volleyball bronze medallist Raquel Peluci. Elsewhere, Olympian Renata Ribeiro will also have a new team mate after ending her partnership with Priscilla Lima. She will join 27-year-old Elize Maia, while Lima will team up with Izabel Bezerra.
Meanwhile, FIVB Beach Volleyball Men’s SWATCH world champions Alison Cerutti and Emanuel Rego; and Ricardo Santos and Pedro Cunha will turn out for the men and women’s Swatch world champions Juliana da Silva Felisberta and Larissa França; and Talita Antunes and Maria Elisa Antonelli step out for the women.
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