Mirador join line-up for Women’s Club World Championship
Mirador last participated in the FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship in 2011
Lausanne, Switzerland, March 25, 2015
- Dominican Republic champions Mirador have been awarded the second of
two wild cards for the FIVB Volleyball Women’s Club World Championship,
which will take place in Zurich, Switzerland from May 6-10.
Mirador
will join hosts Volero Zurich, South American champions Rexona Ades
from Brazil, Japanese V League winners Hisamitsu Springs, and Russian
club Dinamo Krasnodar, who were awarded the first of the two wild cards
for the competition earlier this month.
The sixth and final
participant in the competition will be decided when the CEV DenizBank
Volleyball Women’s Champions League Final Four takes place in Szczecin,
Poland from April 4-5. The four clubs qualified for the semifinals are
VafikBank Istanbul (Turkey), Eczacibasi VitrA Istanbul (Turkey), Chemik
Police (Poland) and Undendo Yamamay Busto Arsizio (Italy).
Teams participating in the 2015 edition of the FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship:
- Volero Zurich (Hosts - Switzerland)
- Rexona Ades (Brazil)
- Hisamitsu Springs (Japan)
- Wild card 1: Dinamo Krasnodar (Russia)
- Wild card 2: Mirador (Dominican Republic)
- CEV DenizBank Volleyball Women’s Champions League winners
Mirador
last participated in the Women’s Club World Championship in 2011, when
the club from Santo Domingo finished fourth behind Sollys Nestle Osasco
of Brazil. Mirador also represented the North, Central America &
Caribbean Confederation (NORCECA) in the 2010 edition of the
competition, when they lost to Bergamo of Italy in the match for the
bronze medals.
Three Mirador players featured in the Dominican
Republic team that finished fifth at the FIVB Volleyball Women's World
Championship Italy 2014, including Marianne Fersola Norberto, Yonkaiara
Paola Peña Isabel and Brayelin Elizabeth Martinez. The club also
provided eight players during the 2014 edition of the FIVB Volleyball
World Grand Prix, which saw the Caribbean nation compete in Group 1
Pools C, E and G.