Legendary Camila Brait ends career after 18 seasons with Osasco!

Camila Brait, a true legend of Brazilian and international volleyball, announced the end of her sports career. It came in the semifinals of the 2025-2026 Brazilian Superliga with the elimination of Osasco Sao Cristovao Saude, the team whose colors she defended for 18 consecutive seasons.

As Gerdau Minas Belo Horizonte scored the last point of that tight five-set semifinal decider against Osasco at home on Friday, the feelings of the fans in the stands were mixed. They celebrated their favorite team’s victory, while bidding farewell and paying homage to one of Brazil’s remarkable sports icons.

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Now 37 years old, Camila Brait joined Osasco back in 2008, when she was only 19, and has been with the same club for 18 consecutive seasons.

“In these 18 years wearing the Osasco jersey, I lived and experienced extraordinary things – feelings that only sports are capable of providing,” Brait said in a message posted on social media. “There was pain, difficult moments, uncertainty, tears, struggle... But there was also success, victories, a lot of glory and most importantly, I was happy here.”

Brait’s greatest accomplishment as an Osasco player was the FIVB Volleyball Women’s Club World Championship crown the team won in 2012. It was the last time a Brazilian team triumphed as women’s club world champion. Brait was awarded as the Best Libero of the competition.

The talented defender, who took on the team captain’s role in 2021 after a rule change allowed liberos to be team captains, was also part of the Osasco squads that picked up four more Club World Championship medals, including bronze at the most recent edition in December, four South American Club Championship titles, three Brazilian Superliga titles, five Brazil Cup trophies and one Brazil Super Cup crown, among many others.

Brait also shined in the Brazilian national team jersey. Her international career started gaining prominence in 2007, when she led Brazil to victory at the FIVB Youth World Championship, where she was named Best Libero.

She joined the senior team the following year, but her journey with the national team was interrupted when she was not called up for the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games. She returned in 2019 and was part of the team that won the silver medal in Tokyo in 2021. As a Brazilian international, Brait collected four FIVB World Grand Prix titles and one FIVB Women’s World Grand Champions Cup, in addition to two FIVB Women’s World Championship medals (silver in 2010 and bronze in 2014) and a Volleyball Nations League silver in 2021.

"For me, it was very special to have played for Brazil all this time, and to have returned," she said after the Olympic success at Tokyo 2020. "Only God knows what this silver medal means to me – my first and last Olympics. At least I'm an Olympic medalist."

The departure from the 2026 Superliga was Brait’s official farewell, but she plans a return to Sacramento, where she started playing volleyball in her childhood years, for a show match that will celebrate her memorable career and mark her definitive goodbye to competitive sports.

"I would never leave the courts without first playing for the people of Sacramento," the libero stated in a social media post. "I'm coming home for a star-studded farewell game on the stage where it all started."

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