The
2014 Women's South American Volleyball Club Championship was the sixth official edition of the women's
volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
tournament, played by eight teams from 5 – 9 February 2014 in
Sao Paulo
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Places
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,
Brazil
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.
SESI São Paulo won the 2014 edition qualifying for the
2014 Club World Championship, defeating in the finale hosts
Molico/Osasco.
Competing clubs
Teams were seeded in two pools of four according to how the representatives of their countries finished in the 2013 edition.
(*)Both Peru and Chile played the tournament with their U23 national teams, Perú played under the name of
LNSV, their national volleyball league and Chile played under the name ADO (''Asociación de Deportistas Olímpicos'', Spanish for Olympic Athletes Association). Both due to a
controversial change in the date of the tournament.
First round
Pool A
Pool B
Final round
Bracket
Final standing
All-Star team
*Most Valuable Player
**
Fabiana Claudino
Fabiana Marcelino Claudino (born 24 January 1985) is a Brazilian volleyball player who made her debut for the Brazilian national team against Croatia. She captained Brazil to the gold medal at the 2012 Olympics.
Personal life
Claudino was born ...
(
SESI SP)
*Best Opposite
**
Ivna Marra
Ivna Franco Marra (born ) is a Brazilian female volleyball player. With her club Sollys Nestlé Osasco she competed at the 2011 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship and with SESI-SP at the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Cha ...
(
SESI SP)
*Best Outside Hitters
**
Dayse Figueiredo
Dayse Figueiredo (born ) is a Brazilian female volleyball player.
With her club SESI-SP she competed at the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship
The 2014 FIVB Women's Club World Championship was the 8th edition of the event. ...
(
SESI SP)
**
Ángela Leyva (
LNSV Club)
*Best Setter
**
Dani Lins (
SESI SP)
*Best Middle Blockers
**
Adenizia da Silva (
Molico/Osasco)
**
Thaisa Menezes
Thaisa de Moraes Rosa Moreno (born 17 December 1988), commonly known as Thaisa or Isa Moreno, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Flamengo and the Brazil women's national team. She previously played for Real Madrid, while ...
(
Molico/Osasco)
*Best Libero
**
Suelen Pinto
Suelen Pinto (born 4 October 1987) is a Brazilian female volleyball player. With her club SESI-SP she competed at the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship
The 2014 FIVB Women's Club World Championship was the 8th edition of th ...
(
SESI SP)
Controversy
Due to the
FIVB's decision to host the
2014 Club World Championship in May 2014 instead of October as the past editions, the
CSV changed the date of the South American Club Championship to February, a month where the South American volleyball leagues have not yet declared a champion to participate in the tournament. Most of the countries decided to prepare a qualifier, such as the
Brazilian Women's Volleyball Superliga
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which qualified
SESI-SP to the tournament while other countries like Perú decided to send a national team under the name of their national volleyball league.
As the official Spanish name for the tournament is "South American Champion Clubs Championship, most countries raised severe opinions about the top three countries from last years edition not participating with a champion club.
References
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South American Volleyball Club Championship South American Volleyball Club Championship may refer to
* Men's South American Volleyball Club Championship
* Women's South American Volleyball Club Championship
The South American Women's Volleyball Club Championship is an international women's ...
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International volleyball competitions hosted by Brazil