“Volleyball is a team sport and the individual performances are the result of the help of teammates, so I don’t have a choice of any player above the rest of the team,” responded Guimaraes.
“If you check the list of the top scorers, no Brazilian player is there,” he stressed. “It doesn’t have importance in team sport.”
Veteran Sheilla Castro, with 35 points (11.6 per game) is the top scorer of Brazil good for the eleventh place in the individual category.
The South American champions are atop of the standings with a win-loss record of 3-0 and the maximum 9 points resulting from two 3-0 wins and one 3-1 victory.
The competition continues on Saturday when USA play Thailand, Russia face Brazil and hosts Japan meet the Dominican Republic at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.
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