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April 26, 2023 Hollywood Beach, FL Recent Wins In November 2021, Team USA Footvolley, with Will Lobato and Nick Mendonca, reached the Championship Match of Nations Cup before losing a thriller to Paraguay. In Nations Cup, Team USA faced various Tour squads with different nationalities.  Lobato/Mendonca were on fire that weekend.  Losing to Paraguay is…

April 2, 2023 Hollywood Beach, FL There’s nothing like sibling rivalry.  Nick Mendonca and Danny Mendonca are rising stars on the Pro Footvolley Tour.  Both athletes grew up playing the sport with a court in their backyard.  Nick (21 years old) is the ‘big brother’ to Danny (19 years old); but the latter apparently is…

April 1, 2023 Hollywood Beach, FL This tournament had all the billings to be the best one so far in 2023. Winners from Week 1 – Kaitlyn Brunworth would compete. Winners from Week 2 – Marina Leal and Gabriel Sodre would compete. Favorites in Melony Blanco and Jonathan Silva would compete. Silva/Blanco above on April…

March 31st, 2023 Hollywood Beach, FL Mixed Doubles Drama! With two defending Champions ready to collide on Saturday in Hollywood (FL) one would think that those two are favorites to win; however, this is what makes Mixed Doubles to fun to watch!  Marina Leal and Kaitlyn Brunworth go in as defending Champs respectively.  Marina will…

March 29, 2023 Hollywood Beach, FL KINGS of the Beach After 2 weeks and two titles … Moises Davalos and Jonathan Silva sit atop the leaderboard.  With the change in teams on the weekend, perhaps only one will lead the table afterwards.  Will it be American Jonathan Silva or the Paraguayan Davalos?  Many feel the…

March 28, 2023 Hollywood Beach, FL Mixed Doubles Returns With two Mixed Doubles tournaments in the books – the anticipation for the 3rd tournament is high amongst the athletes. ‘We will go on break for about a month … so YEA – I want to win this one!’ Leticia Paes stated via text message Leticia…

March 26, 2023 Hollywood Beach, FL (Center of the Planet) Repeat Champions The idea was that partnerships would change.  Players would switch partners each and every week; however, due to two unfortunate injuries AND an overall dissatisfaction with the extremely windy conditions from last Sunday that concept was postponed.    The same top teams returned. …

March 26, 2023 Hollywood Beach, FL (Center of the Planet) From Soccer to Footvolley Most footvolley athletes come from soccer.  Few win Championships; however, as such new arrivals to the sport.  This oddity happened on Saturday as Marina Leal – a college soccer standout – at Palm Beach Atlantic University ended up winning the Mixed…

Hollywood Beach, FL (Center of the Planet) March 19, 2023 2023 Season Kick-Off America’s best footvolley professionals ended the 2023 Season Day 2 with a drama-filled competition till the last few points!   The Saturday qualifiers arrived into the Sunday finals to face the Top Seeds.  Day and Night.  The level between the qualifying teams and…

Hollywood Beach, FL  (Center of the planet) March 18, 2023 2023 Season Kick-Off The 2023 Pro Footvolley Tour, presented by Genius Sports, started with an incredibly exciting Saturday!  First, in the Men’s qualifiers division – Leo Gomes and Thiago Santos fought their way to advance to Sunday.  In addition, winners of the two groups respectively…