
Roller Derby Brasil (Team Brasil) represents
Brazil
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in women's international
roller derby
Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played by two teams of fifteen members. Roller derby is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues worldwide, mostly in the United States.
Game play consists of a series of short scrimmages (jam ...
, such as at the
Roller Derby World Cup
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.
Team Brasil is composed of roller derby players from Brazil, who are selected in tryouts to compete at the national level. Team Brasil is incorporated as a not-for-profit organization, run by the Brazilian skaters.
First formed in 2011, Team Brasil first competed at the
2011 Roller Derby World Cup
The 2011 Roller Derby World Cup was an international women's roller derby tournament organized by ''Blood & Thunder'' magazine. Teams of amateur skaters from around the world were fielded to compete for their respective nations.
The inaugural 20 ...
, held in
Toronto
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, Canada. The team's skaters, who ordinarily compete using
derby names, chose to use single names at the 2011 World Cup,
following in the tradition of Brazilian players in many sports, most notably soccer, which is arguably the biggest sport in Brazil. The 2011 placed #11 of 12 teams.
In the 2014 World Cup, Team Brasil qualified for the second round of the tournament and placed #14 of 30 teams.
Team roster
2018 roster
Brazil announced its 2018 roster in January, 2018.
2017 roster
Brazil announced its 2017 team roster in October 2016.
2014 roster
Brazil announced its 2014 team roster in December 2013.
Coaches 2014
MVP 2014
The Most Valuable Player from Team Brasil at the second World Cup was Brazilian Nut, aka Nanda.
2011 roster
Brazil announced its initial team roster in August 2011. (''league affiliations listed as of at the time of the announcement'')
MVP 2011
The Most Valuable Player from team brasil at the first world cup was Brazilian Nut aka Nanda #16.
2011 World Cup
Team Brasil was one of thirteen countries to be represented at the inaugural
Roller Derby World Cup
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, held in
Toronto
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, Canada, in
2011
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.
Team Brasil opened the tournament in the same group as
Team Canada Canadian National Team or Team Canada may refer to:
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Canada's national sport teams
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,
Roller Derby France
Roller Derby France represents France in women's international roller derby, in events such as the Roller Derby World Cup. The team was first formed to compete at the 2011 Roller Derby World Cup, and finished the tournament in seventh place.
Hea ...
and
Team Sweden
Team Sweden represents Sweden in women's international roller derby. The team was first formed to compete at the 2011 Roller Derby World Cup, and finished the tournament in sixth place.
Sweden's first bout was on 8 October 2011, against Team Fin ...
and played 6 games overall during the weekend. In the group stage, each team played the others in their group once each. Team Brazil's first game was against Team Sweden, who won, 163–30, taking advantage of Team Brazil's relative inexperience.
Gotham skater Brazilian Nut – competing as 'Fernanda' for the tournament – was the only skater for Brazil with
WFTDA experience, and some skaters were playing their first public game ever.
In their second game, Brazil was dominated by the experience of Team Canada, who cruised to a relatively easy win, 408–7. In their third game of the group stage, Brazil lost to France, 212 to 28.
Team Brasil finished the group stage of the World Cup ranked eleventh, but then lost to
Team France for the second time at the tournament, but by a far smaller margin than before, at 212 points to 138, in possibly their best game of the tournament. In the consolation stage, Team Brasil lost to both
Team Ireland
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and
Team Scotland
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Multi-sport events
*''Scotland'', the team sent by the Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland to represent the cou ...
, to finish the tournament in twelfth place.
[Lex Talionis,]
World Cup 11th Place: (13) Scotland Foils (11) Brazil, 113–64
, '' Derby News Network'', 3 December 2011
2014 World Cup
Team Brasil was in Pool 2 which included Roller Derby Brasil,
Roller Derby France
Roller Derby France represents France in women's international roller derby, in events such as the Roller Derby World Cup. The team was first formed to compete at the 2011 Roller Derby World Cup, and finished the tournament in seventh place.
Hea ...
, Team Portugal and Team Switzerland. France placed first in the pool, followed by (in order) Brazil, Portugal and Switzerland. After the pool round the top two teams from each pool were placed in a single elimination bracket. Roller Derby Brasil played
Team Canada (roller derby)
Team Canada represents Canada in women's international roller derby. The current team was first formed to compete at the 2011 Roller Derby World Cup, and finished the tournament in second place to Team USA, losing the final 336 points to 33. Tea ...
and was eliminated.
Scores
References
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Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
Roller derby
Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played by two teams of fifteen members. Roller derby is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues worldwide, mostly in the United States.
Game play consists of a series of short scrimmages (jam ...
Roller derby in Brazil
2011 establishments in Brazil
Sports clubs and teams established in 2011