Russia: Champion!
Venezuela: 2nd Place
Nigeria: 3rd Place |
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| The Embassy of Russia was the great champion of the 1 st THE GUIDE Volleyball Tournament 2007, after disputing a balanced match on the final against the team of the Embassy of Venezuela, which got the trophy for the second best team of the tournament. The embassy of Nigeria got the third place, which had the participation of the Ambassador Kayode Garrick among its athletes. |
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| The Champions: Artem Demushkin, Elena Dergunova, Bolat Oorzhak and Ivan Orlov. |
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| The Venezuelan team got the Second Place. |
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The Nigerian team guaranteed the 3rd place on the tournament. |
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| The fun event took place on the morning of March 31st, at Clube Naval de Brasilia and had the presence of ambassadors, diplomats, family members and friends. Everyone formed entertaining crowds to motivate their teams. |
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| Ambassador of Venezuela, Mr. Julio Montoya (left) and Ambassador of Bulgaria, Mr. Nikolay Tzatchev. |
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| Mr. Guisbert Verse, Executive from Jorlan Chevrolet and the Nigerian athlete, Ambassador Kayode Garrick. |
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| A family confraternization environment. |
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| Diplomats and family members were at the event. |
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The tournament was sponsored by the companies JORLAN Chevrolet and POSITIVE Idiomas. The executive Guisbert Verse, from JORLAN Chevrolet, presented at the event the new vehicle VECTRA model, sold with very special conditions to the embassies. The language course POSITIVE Idiomas, represented at the event by the language teacher Elise Brites, distributed during the event invitations for free classes of Portuguese for Foreigners, given at the residence or embassy. The POSITIVE Idiomas is known on the Diplomatic Corps for teaching Portuguese for foreigners and other 15 foreign languages, including Russian and Mandarin.
Click here to know more about POSITIVE Idiomas and click here to know more about JORLAN Chevrolet. |
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| Mrs. Elise Brites, representative from Positive Idiomas (right), seen here with a friend from the embassy of Nigeria. |
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| Many diplomats won free Portuguese classes from Positive Idiomas. |
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| Mr. Guisbert Verse, here with the ambassador of Bulgaria , Mr. Nikolay Tzatchev, presented a new vehicle Vectra model at the event. |
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| The tournament day had a bright sky and a lot of sun and the games started around 9:00 in the morning. The embassy of Russia, with its team formed by Elena Dergunova, Artem Demushkin, Ivan Orlov and Bolat Oorzhak, demonstrated very good collective playing and the experience of having already won two champion trophies and one second-place trophy on the last 3 years. Its invincibility at the tournament was unquestionable and since the beginning it was already pointed out to be one of the favorites for the championship trophy. |
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| The Russian team demonstrated technique, experience and good collective playing. |
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| Relaxing moment between matches. |
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| Another favorite team to win the tournament was the team of Venezuela, which showed strength and balance during the games. It was the first time that the embassy of Venezuela participated on this kind of tournament and its team can already be considered one of the favorites to win the 2nd THE GUIDE Beach Volleyball Tournament 2007, which will happen on the next month of November. The Ambassador of Venezuela, Mr. Julio Montoya, was present at the event and was part of the Venezuelan crowd, which deserved the title of the most cheerful of the event. |
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| Venezuelans showed strength and balance during the games. |
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| Final match against Russia was a balanced game where the teams showed their favoritism. |
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| Ambassador from Venezuela, Mr. Julio Montoya. |
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| The Venezuelan crowd was the most cheerful of the event. |
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| The third place of the tournament was given to the Embassy of Nigeria, which participated for the second time on the volleyball tournament of the embassies. Its cheerful team had the Ambassador Kayode Garrick among its athletes. The participation of the Embassy of Nigeria is an example to be followed, because even though they didn’t have players used to play volley, they gave the opportunity for every member to participate of the games. |
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| The team from the Embassy of Nigeria is an example to be followed. |
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| Players showed determination. |
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After the games, Mr. Pedro Paulo Moreira, President of THE GUIDE Business Consultancy, company that organized the event, thanked for everyone’s presence and also for the support of the sponsoring companies, JORLAN Chevrolet and POSITIVE Idiomas. After that he invited Mr. Guisbert Verse and Elise Brites to give the medals to the winning athletes. |
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| Mr. Pedro Paulo Moreira, President of THE GUIDE Business Consultancy. |
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| The teams were much applauded and the cordiality mood demonstrated during the event reached the main goal of the tournament, which was to provide the confraternization among the diplomats of many embassies and their family members. |
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| Russian and Venezuelan players greeted each other after the final match. |
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| The tournament was a confraternization example. |
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| After the awards, Mr. Pedro Paulo Moreira, in behalf of the THE GUIDE Business Consultancy, invited everyone to have lunch at the restaurant Farol do Lago, located on the margins of Lake Paranoa, at Clube Naval. Everyone enjoyed the many seafood dishes and the nice view of the lake, on that beautiful sunny afternoon. |
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| Everyone enjoyed lunch by the margins of Lake Paranoa. |
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| Moments of confraternization and joy. |
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| The varied cuisine was enjoyed at the Farol do Lago Restaurant. |
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| The winning teams of Russia, Venezuela and Nigeria. |
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THE GUIDE thanks the participation of the embassies on the 1st THE GUIDE Beach Volleyball Tournament 2007 and congratulates the Embassies of Russia, Venezuela and Nigeria for the titles of Champion, Vice-Champion and Third Place, respectively. |
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