On the 26th, JTEKT, a men’s volleyball team in the SV League, held a press conference to announce their new system and held a public practice in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture, where they have been based since this season. With the addition of world-class attackers Ricardo Carreri Sousa (Lucarelli) and Tory DeFalco from the Brazilian national team, they aim to become the first SV League champion.

After the public practice, Kento Miyaura (25), a member of the Japan Men’s National Team at the Paris Olympics, was interviewed and talked about his reasons for returning to JTEKT after three seasons from an overseas league. Miyaura’s main speech is as follows.[Yuta Kobayashi]

“It’s getting a little bit of recognition.”

With the SV League, (the rules have changed) the number of foreign players has been reduced to two (from one), so it is expected that there will be more cases of foreign players being included as OH (outside hitters). is completed. I thought it would be a great experience for me to play against top-level foreign players.

After thinking about it to the very last minute and weighing all sorts of things, I made the choice.

It’s really top level…