“We’re always aiming to give honour and pride to our country not just by representing it, so I hope we can bring home a medal,” Valdez told ahead of the Games, which started on Friday 5 May and at which Valdez was her nation’s flag bearer for a women-only delegation. His experience will be key but so will that of the veteran Valdez. The side have spent two weeks training together in Osaka, Japan in an effort to break that barrier, under the stewardship of Brazil’s head coach Jorge Souza de Brito.Ī 1992 Olympic gold medallist as a player, and an assistant to the Brazil women’s team who won gold at Beijing 2008, he accepted the role of consultant to Filipina’s volleyball team in July 2021. This time, at Cambodia 2023, the team are going all out to take home a precious medal. The 29-year-old Filipina is taking part in her fifth SEA Games, hoping to put to bed the pain of coming fourth in the past three editions. Alyssa Valdez is one of the biggest stars of the Southeast Asian Games with more than two million followers on Instagram, but can the nation's flagbearer lead the Philippines indoor women's volleyball team to a first podium place in 18 years?
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