Fabiana Claudino
The All-Star Team of the competition was announced at the start of the award ceremony presided over by Dr. Ary S. Graça, FIVB President and Dr. Yuichiro Hamu, President of Japan Volleyball Association.
“I am very happy about winning the Most Valuable Player, an award granted by my teammates who helped me to do my job,” Fabiana said during the press conference held after the ceremony.
“This is a great team and I’m really happy about what we achieved,” the Brazilian captain added. “It wasn’t an easy tournament and I got the MVP award because of my team. All the players gave me this.”
Japan sent three players to the All-Star Team of the competition based on the statistics while Thailand had two.
The Japanese players were the first receiver Saori Sakoda, the setter Hitomi Nakamichi and the libero Arisa Sato.
The two Thais in the ideal squad were Onuma Sittirak as second receiver and Pleumjit Thinkaow as the second middle-blocker.
Gina Mambru of Dominican Republic was the best opposite and Russia’s Iuliia Morozova was the first middle-blocker.
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