Eduardo Jorge Bacil Filho is a Brazilian professional volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

 player.

He was the first Brazilian and the first foreign player ever to win an Association of Volleyball Professionals

Association of Volleyball Professionals

The Association of Volleyball Professionals, or AVP, is a beach volleyball tour which takes place throughout the United States. The summer tour starts in April and continues almost every weekend until the end of October....

 tournament in America. Fellow AVP alumni Stein Metzger

Stein Metzger

Stein Metzger is a beach volleyball player from the United States, playing in the AVP. In 2006 he played with his high school teammate, Mike Lambert, and they advanced to the Final Four in fourteen of the fifteen team events, winning five times...

 has given Bacil the credit for inventing the "Steino" Pokey shot. In 2011, he Earned his first outdoor domestic title at the Huntington Beach open with Scott Ayakatubby, and in 1995, he won his first AVP title with Jose Loiola indoors at Washington, DC. Anjinho Bacil was a two-time Brazilian Beach Volleyball Champion in both 1991 and 1992, and he also won the South American Beach Volleyball Championship in 1993. He played professionally on the Brazilian indoor volleyball team from 1986-1992.

Eduardo Jorge Bacil Filho is his full name, but his nickname is "Anjinho", which is Portuguese

Portuguese language

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 for "little angel". He is from Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

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, Brazil

Brazil

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, Bacil currently resides in Redondo Beach

Redondo Beach, California

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, CA and has three children.