Serginho
On Sunday afternoon, the closing day of the Olympic Games,Serginho was named Most Valuable Player of the Rio 2016 men’s volleyball tournament – the icing on the cake of Brazil’s remarkable gold medal.
It was Serginho’s fourth and last Olympic Games.
“This was my last Olympic Games,” said the 40-year-old who stands 1.84m high. “A day before the match against France I talked to the other guys that I was feeling like I was in a intensive care and I needed to be alive. I asked them to help me be alive. All of them have another Olympic cycle, but not me and I really wanted to be gold one more time.“
And now?
“Now all I want is to go home,” he said just minutes after Brazil’s triumphant straight-set win over Italy in the Rio 2016 final. “I want to pick up my children from school. To go to a birthday party of my friends. To eat my mother’s chocolate cake. And to be Serginho. This glory will pass and I will be a normal guy.“
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