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Fellow Avon Products alumni Stein Metzger has given Bacil the cr for inventing the "Steino" Pokey shot. 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 for "little angel".
He is from Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Bacil currently resides in Redondo Beach, California and has three children.
He was the first Brazilian and the first foreign player ever to win an Association of Volleyball Professionals tournament in America. In 2011, he Earned his first outdoor domestic title at the Huntington Beach open with Scott Ayakatubby, and in 1995, he won his first Avon Products title with Jose Loiola indoors at Washington, District of Columbia. 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.
