COPA OLINDA DE BEACH SEPAKTAKRAW - OLINDA 476 ANOS
Baú do Esporte resgata história da primeira investida do Sepaktakraw na praia - Globo Esporte, 11/03/2011.

O sepaktakraw foi trazido ao Brasil pelo arquiteto pernambucano, Hilário Nóbrega da Cunha "Charles Miller do sepaktakraw" que conheceu a modalidade em Bali no ano de 1989. Foram dez anos tentando introduzir a modalidade por aqui. Olinda/PE, sua cidade natal, tornou-se a capital brasileira do sepaktakraw, tem duas quadras públicas e é lá que treina a seleção brasileira, que já foi campeã da divisão de acesso do Mundial em 2000, na Malásia, e da divisão especial da Copa do Rei da Tailândia em 2000, 2003 e 2007, além de títulos na França, Guiana Francesa e Colômbia.

Brazilians learning fast
New Straits Times| March 01, 2002 |Copyright
 Brazil, one of the world's most successful football countries, four-time (1) world champions, have also learned how to play sepak takraw. The Brazilian team is the world champion of a special division of the sepaktakraw world championships in the 16th King's Cup in Bangkok, Thailand. Brazil also got their first on the 3rd in ISA Cup in Negeri Sembilan, entering in the special division for 2001. In...

(1) five-time: 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002

Brazil putting Samba into the game
New Straits Times | July 30, 1999 | Sapiee, Radzi | Copyright
We might soon see samba on sepaktakraw courts soon. Brazil, the soccer powerhouse who brought the Latin move into the soccer fields, have taken up the traditional game of the Malay archipelago, becoming the second Latin America nation to join the craze.International Sepaktakraw Federation (Istaf) secretary Abdul Halim Kader who was on a recent visit to Brazil was surprised to find that sepaktakraw was catching up there with 60 teams playing the game. "It was a pleasant surprise. These people have never had direct contact with sepaktakraw experts from our part of the …