Paris 2024 Olympian André Loyola won’t appear in the tournaments of the 2025 international beach volleyball season, which include the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship and the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, as he announced a break in his career.
In a video posted on his social media accounts, the 30-year-old blocker revealed that he had long been considering a pause to recover from mental fatigue and that he has now made a decision to do it in 2025.
“I’ve been thinking about it for some years and I’m now convinced that it’s the right thing to do,” he said. “Time goes fast when you’re a beach volleyball player and I feel that I missed a lot of things in my life in these 12 years I’ve been playing. Because of the way I deal with the sport, beach volleyball hasn’t been as fun as it used to be in the last few years. The traveling, the competition, everything became a problem. It’s a personal decision, that has nothing to do with my partners or coaches. I talked to many athletes about it over the last few weeks and many of them said that they wish they had taken some time off as I’m going to do now. I feel it’s the right time to take a break and reflect.”
