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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, April 22, 2015 - She won the ultimate in
national team prizes and now she is back to claim the foremost
honour in club competitions.
After collecting a gold medal with Team USA at the FIVB
Volleyball Women’s World Championship Italy 2014, Jordan Quinn
Larson-Burbach will be aiming to claim another with Turkey’s
Eczacibasi Istanbul at the 2015 FIVB Volleyball Women’s Club
World Championship in Zurich in under three weeks’ time.
In fact, the 29-year-old outside
hitter will be aiming to collect her second gold medal in the
competition after helping Dinamo Kazan to success in last year's
competition.
But there’s an interesting
matchup for Larson-Burbach on her way to her second Club World
Championship gold. She’ll have to face Russia’s Dinamo Krasnodar
on the second day of pool play and could come up against the
same opponent again in the final. And on the other side of the
net will be another outside hitter with a similar background and
a similar goal.
Brazil’s Fe Garay won Olympic
gold in 2012 in London beating Larson-Burbach’s USA 3-1 in the
final at the iconic Earls Court. Just a couple of months later,
Fe Garay led Brazil’s Sollys Nestle Osasco to gold at that
year’s Club World Championship in Doha. Now, she too will be
aiming for a second gold with a different club.
The two attackers also met in another historic clash that will
be remembered for years to come. In the World Championship
semifinal in Milan last year, Larson-Burbach’s USA defeated Fe
Garay’s Brazil 3-0, taking sweet revenge for that loss in
London.
So mark the day, because they
meet again. On Thursday, May 7 - the second leg of pool play at
Zurich 2015 - Larson-Burbach’s Eczacibasi take on Fe Garay’s
Dinamo Krasnodar. And when you get Americans against Brazilians
on the court, even if they’re playing for clubs from Turkey and
Russia, it’s surely a contest not to be missed. |
