So far so good here in Brasil. Some how or other Phil and I have continued to win. We beat the Latvians pretty good yesterday afternoon. We were up 9-0 in the first and 8-0 in the second. Ended up winning 21-10 and 21-15. Was not so much us as it was them. They were struggling a lot. It got to the point where their coach, who is also the dad of one of the guys, was laughing at every point. Kind of felt bad for them but you gotta win.
In our first match today we took on Franco/Cunha from Brasil. Played well and served well too. We won 21-15 and 21-18. I was actually serving really well. Better than Phil if that is possible. Just hitting it as hard as I could in the wind and letting the wind do crazy things to the ball. So we sit at 5th place now and play Emanuel/Ricardo in the semis of the winners in about 1 hour. I am sure they are looking to exact a little revenge from Switzerland. See if Phil and I can~t beat them anyways.
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Wail on that serve! Sounds like you are having a blast. Enjoy
Jeff
Wish the FIVB site would give us live scoring for all the matches going on instead of just the center court. It would be nice if we could see how you and Phil were doing against Emmanuel & Ricardo. Here's hoping you'se(Brooklyn!) come out on top again.
Garret
Congrats!! 24 and 16 against the #1 team in the world!! Keep on rollin'!
Garret
Wow! Took down Santos/Rego too, thats OP!!
/Peter
Wow! Amazing job, Todd. I'm looking forward to hearing more details about the match.
Does anyone know if there will be video of the weekend matches accessible via Internet?
and Happy Birthday!
Drew
Todd and Phil are making a statement down in Brazil! The other USA teams on the Men's side finished lower than a whale turd in Boston Harbor but Todd and Phil are carrying the flag for us. We need to come up with names for the AVP Teams like Wrestling Tag Teams have. Although Anthony and Fred have become known as Team Jump Serve and Wach/Wong as Team Dubya we need more. For Todd and Phil I had come up with "The Teacher and The Creature" but maybe they should use the name the wrestling team of Adrian Adonis and Superstar Billy Graham onced used of "The East-West Connection". The FIVB site says Todd has a chance for Gold on his birthday this Sunday so lets make that happen guys. If that happens and my 1-AA Umass Minutemen can knock off top rated Boston College in football Saturday it will be a great sports weekend. Booyah! GO USA..GO UMASS! Scott from Cape Cod
todd, you and phil keep rippin the serves and bring home the gold...i am sure that the win over the number 1 brazilian team drove the fans absolutely nuts......you guys have some fun after you win it all...alan beverly/birmingham al.
p.s. to scott from the cape...i love reading your stuff...i love the teacher and the creature...nice
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