MACEIO – It is summertime in Brazil and to close the 2014 competitions Calendar CBDU organized one more edition of the Brazilian Beach Games as part of the University Sport League (LDU), in Maceió city, located in the Northeast Coast of Brazil. From 3 to 6 December, more than 300 student-athletes (Women and Men) from 9 states competed for the medals on Beach Handball, Beach Soccer, FootVolley and Beach Volleyball.
All the games took place at the Venue set up at Pajuçara Beach. Beside the Beach Handball, all the other sports were played at the same time, all day long, what brings a good variety of options for the spectators on the seats. Universiade medalists and WUC participants came also in action in this year’s Beach Games edition like Nathane Fabem, bronze medalist with the Brazilian women’s soccer team at the Kazan 2013 SU and Marcos Borlini who competed for Brazil at the 2014 WUC Beach Volleyball WUC in Portugal.
CBDU Forum
Maceió also hosted the X CBDU Forum, from 4 to 6 December with theme ‘The innovations in the Brazilian University Sport’. Five seminars were scheduled during the 3 day seminar. At the opening, Luciano Cabral, CBDU President and FISU Vice-President addressed to the audience a debate about new trends and innovations for University Sport. Along the presentation, statistics and history facts were showed.
Luciano Cabral“We can understand the innovation as a strategy to plan our future steps. We can connect ourselves with the current trends. Taking a deep look in what can help us to reach another level. Beginning with the State competitions until the Universiade, in 2019”, said Luciano Cabral.
The Forum closed with the traditional CBDU Gala night, where all the best Brazilian student-athletes of the year were honored with a trophy in recognition for the achievements in 2014. The Ceremony took place on Saturday night, 6 December, in Maceió as well.
2014 was a special year for Brazil, the best results in 73 years for the Brazilian teams in World University Championships: 16 Medals (3 gold, 6 Silver and 7 bronze). In addition, Brazil has organized 3 FISU WUC’s (Triathlon, Brasília; Rugby 7, São José dos Campos and 3×3 Basketball, Salvador).
This year, CBDU has also organized the 1st edition of the Women’s Soccer University Brazil Cup (CBUFF) and broke more records with the 62nd Brazilian University Games with 3,500 athletes from all the 27 federal states. Now, that the year is about to end, the goal for CBDU is to plan what the organization can do to continue the improvement in 2015 and focus on the Summer Universiade, in Gwangju.
(Source: Everton Melo CBDU Press Officer – Photos by Thiago Parmalat)