Hard to give! The two-time Olympic champion confirmed retirement this season, sharing her bits and pieces with the Chinese women's volleyball team
The 39-year-old Brazilian women's volleyball Olympic champion Sheila, who made the decision to retire and will leave her beloved volleyball arena after the end of this season's U.S. women's volleyball league, said she wanted to spend time with her twin daughters, adjust her lifestyle and spend more time with family and friends. Sheila is 190cm tall, born in 1983, is the best receiver of the Brazilian women's volleyball team, not one! She has been playing against the Chinese women's volleyball team since the 2002 Women's Volleyball World Championship, and the bittersweet and salty in the victories and losses of previous competitions are enough to be recalled by Sheila and fans.
Sheila is currently the captain of team Purple in the third week of the U.S. Women's Volleyball League, along with Thailand's second-in-command Nut Sara and Chinese vice-attacker Xue Yizhi. Sierra did not choose as captain in the first 2 weeks of participating in the American League this season, and fought with captain De la Cruz in the Orange team to achieve a total victory record, after 2 weeks of competition Sheila's personal points have ranked among the top 4, reached the standard of captain, and finally won the position of captain of the purple team, she chose two Asian players to play with the same team, Nutsara and Sierra last week, perhaps feel that her pass is more appropriate, Xue Yizhi is also more favored by Sheila, she is unfamiliar with the second pass in the first two weeks, Resulting in fewer shots, I hope to get more trust from the second pass Nut Sara.
Looking back at Sierra's infancy in the international volleyball arena to the end of the 2019 World Cup, her career ups and downs are very legendary: the Athens Olympic cycle due to the brazilian women's volleyball team veteran Werner and other veterans and head coach Rezende intensified, resulting in the withdrawal of the main Brazilian players, the 2002 World Championships with Sierra, Paura, Marcelle, Sasa as the representative of the youth team to represent the Brazilian team to play, and finally brazil in the 1/4 final 2-3 defeat to the Chinese women's volleyball team, perhaps hating the Chinese women's volleyball team to choose them as opponents After the loss, Sheila was very unwilling, and even made a contemptuous move of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and in the following years, Sheila was not soft in the face of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and maintained a high cold style in attitude.
At the beginning of the Beijing Olympic cycle, Sierra officially became the first scorer of the Brazilian team, she replaced Mary Anne in the 2005 World Women's Volleyball Grand Prix as the starting pick-up, and in the 2006 World Championships rematch, facing the golden generation of chinese women's volleyball team, the Brazilian team fell behind 0-2, with the decisive game Sheila crazy scoring climax to defeat the Chinese team 3-2 reverse, which was a revenge for the 2002 World Championships. In the semi-finals of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the Chinese women's volleyball team was again encountered, and the Brazilian team ruthlessly eliminated the defending champions 3-0, and Sierra, Paura, Mary Anne, Fabiana and Vallesca blossomed more and won a big victory.
The battle between China and Brazil in the London Olympic cycle is still staged, but the balance of victory has been clearly tilted to the Brazilian team, and the key games of the Chinese women's volleyball team always lack self-confidence: the 2011 World Cup Brazilian women's volleyball team is sluggish, the Chinese women's volleyball team has done everything in its power to still lose 2-3, the decider once fought to 14-14, or a breath of relief, on the contrary, the Japanese women's volleyball team can easily defeat the Brazilian team 3-0, this time Mary Anne officially withdrew from the main lineup, and the Brazilian women's volleyball team only won the 5th place. 2012 London Olympics Brazil team with the Chinese team in the same group, the group stage in the Brazilian team in the whole game dominant situation, the Chinese women's volleyball team to save the match point to drag the game to the decider, but unfortunately still lost the decider, but this Olympic cycle chinese women's volleyball team twice the big competition and Brazil war 5 innings, proving that the Brazilian team has not as big as the advantage of the Beijing Olympic cycle.
Coming to the Rio Olympic cycle, the Chinese women's volleyball team changed blood, in the 2013 World Women's Volleyball Grand Prix and the 2014 World Championships of the Top 6 were swept by the Brazilian women's volleyball team twice, especially in the World Championships with Zhu Ting is not helpful, and the gap with Brazil is fully displayed, the more dramatic scene is that the Brazilian women's volleyball team crushed the Chinese women's volleyball team, but was swept by the American team to the final, the Chinese women's volleyball team but revenge The Italian women's volleyball team won the runner-up. 2016 Rio Olympic Games Sierra, Figarre, Fabiana are all in the state of the line, but unfortunately Natalia's pass and Taiza's attack dropped badly, and finally 2-3 was eliminated by the Chinese women's volleyball team, which is also the first battle of the Chinese women's volleyball team against the Brazilian women's volleyball team.
Entering the Tokyo Olympic cycle, Brazil's team opened low and went high: the 2017 Grand Champions Cup China and Brazil once again played 5 innings, and Brazil led 10-5 and still held the match point, relying on Zhu Ting's personal ability to attack the opponent. In the 2019 World Cup, the two sides fought again for 5 innings, Yuan Xinyue and Zhu Ting joined forces to defeat Brazil again, and these two big battles were somewhat similar to the two encounters in the London cycle, but it was Brazil that occupied the psychological advantage at that time.
Sierra just want to stop to spend more time with family and friends, from her performance in the American League, the offensive strength can still represent Brazil in this year's World Championships, but whether it can play the main force is difficult to determine, after all, now the Brazilian team Tandara, Rosa Maria, Lorenni and other people have the ability to play the main force, Sierra at the age of 39 to start a new chapter of life is worthy of recognition, but also let many fans difficult to give up her departure.