Brazil coach, Bernardo Rezende:
After all the talks about pressure and about winning and being one of the favourites we needed to play with open mind and we started strong and just kept playing. It was important to start the tournament well. We put the pressure on the other side and we played consistently, we need to improve some elements. We won with competitive team with potential which can play better. But it’s just a first step in the very long tournament.
Brazil Captain, Bruno Rezende:
First match in the tournament is always nervous. We started a little bit nervously, but when we started playing on our level our serve was aggressive. We know that their block is very good so we didn’t fight against it and we tried to avoid mistakes. Starting a tournament with this good result against good team makes us happy but in this tournament there are a lot of tough teams and we will have to focus on each game.
Germany Coach, Vital Heynen:
Congratulations to Brazilian team. Just read the statistics – everything is there, and Brazil was just better in every element. They were better in all the skills.
Germany Captain, Jochen Schöps:
Congratulations to Brazil. We started first set well, but after Brazil started playing, we could only try to catch up. It’s always difficult against Brazil and they didn’t give us the chance to start to rebound. Brazil is always a very tough opponent.