Official Bulletin no. 61 March 2011

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World VolleyNews

in this issueVolleyball

• Junior and Youth champs steadily taking shape

Beach Volleyball

• Africa rounds up sub-zonal phase• Continental Cup catch up• FIVB extends contact with BVAWtechnical & Development

• Mikasa signs as FIVB official game ball supplier for 2013-2016

• Uganda outlines youth development project

confederations

• Beach Games boost for Maldives’ beach volleyball

• Algeria squad get down to business• CSV Congress celebrates South

American success• Six women officials oversee Belgian

Cup final• NORCECA holds first press seminar

VcPs the way to build for the future

I would like to congratulate all the par-ticipants and organisers who helped the FIVB and its Volleyball Coopera-

tion Programme reach such a significant landmark in February. One thousand courses is an outstanding achievement. When it was first established in 1989 it was hoped that the project would bring about a noticeable change for both vol-leyball and beach volleyball and I think it is clear for everyone that this is the case.It is crucial that we continue to invest time and resources in development. While there have been many changes and many differences in how volleyball is viewed, there is always room for im-provement. While the gap between the top tier nations and those beneath them has started to close in recent years, as an organisation we need to make sure that this continues.The VCP allows us to provide an oppor-tunity of participation at the grass roots level and through hard work and deter-mination, it has now reached all eche-lons of the sport. Many of the players and coaches in today’s game have benefited, either directly or indirectly, from the programme whether through playing or learning, or through more subtle means such as the coaches, athletes may have had growing up. Although it is easy to assume that the course helps just those at the grassroots of volleyball, this is not the case and all the hard work put in by the FIVB Instructors and the FIVB Techni-cal and Development Department have an enormous effect on the game as a whole.Now I look forward to seeing how the VCP and other development initiatives can grow further to spark more interest in our wonderful sport and I hope that in 22 years time, whoever is leading the FIVB can say that the sport has moved on even further thanks to the work put in by all those involved today.

Mr Jizhong Wei, FIVB President

VcP celebrates 1,000th course■ the fiVB Volleyball cooperation Pro-gramme (VcP) reached a landmark on february 21 when its 1,000th course be-gan in accra, Ghana.

The VCP was first established in 1989 and since then it has helped volleyball and beach volleyball develop at the grassroots level, providing national fed-erations with opportunities to build on and cultivate their potential.

Offering courses for teachers, young play-ers, coaches and referees, the VCP’s main objective is to ensure that a solid foun-dation is established in the countries it serves, enabling the sport to thrive. Dozens of up-and-coming national fed-erations have been supported by the initiative and without the programme, knowledge of the game would not have spread as far as it has now.

In 2010 an impressive total of 50 countries hosted VCP courses with 1,378 people tak-ing part according to figures from the VCP 2010 Report, released by the FIVB’s Techni-cal and Development Department on Feb-ruary 28. This takes the overall number of people attending the programmes since they first started 22 years ago to 23,217.

“We are very pleased with the level of cov-erage and participation in the FIVB’s flag-ship development programme in 2010,” Vicente Araujo, the FIVB Development Commission’s president and FIVB Execu-tive vice-president, said. “This is a perfect reflection of the resources and effort the

Mr Jizhong Wei, FIVB President

A total of 23,217 people have participated in VCP courses since they started in 1989

FIVB is putting into development but now we must take it up to another level and focus on encouraging more women to participate.”

Figures also indicate that since the pro-gramme’s inception, Africa has benefited most from the courses, with 58 per cent of the number of participants attend-ing courses on that continent – precisely 14,311 people.

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World Volley NewsVolleyball

Brazil, winners of the last FIVB Volleyball Men’s Junior World Championship, will have the chance to defend their title in front of their home fans

Germany will travel to Peru as they look to defend their FIVB Volleyball Women’s Junior World Championship in July

Argentina’s boys’ youth team will want to underline their recent good form at the FIVB Volleyball Boys’ Youth World Championship which they host

Brazil’s girls will look to become the second back-to-back FIVB Volleyball Girls’ Youth world champions when they travel to Turkey

Junior and Youth champs steadily taking shapeMen’s and women’s junior teams and boys’ and girls’ youth teams are start-ing their preparations for the age group FIVB World Championships later this year.

The FIVB Volleyball Women’s Junior World Championship is the first to take place, running from July 22-31 in Lima and Tru-jillo, Peru. Brazil coach Luizomar de Moura has already said his side can improve on their bronze-medal finish at the last edi-tion in 2009, explaining that “the base of this team won the FIVB Volleyball Girls’ Youth World Championship two years ago and also won the South American Games.”

Elsewhere, Dominican Republic coach Wagner Pacheco has been meeting with his team five days a week as they look to go one better than their silver-medal performance two years ago.

The next competition will be the FIVB Volleyball Men’s Junior World Champion-ship, hosted by Brazil from August 1-10. Among the participants are Puerto Rico, who are returning to the tournament for the first time since 1997, when they finished in ninth place. The Puerto Ricans

plan to travel to the host country a week prior to the event to use the Development Centre in Rio de Janeiro.

Just two days after the conclusion of the Volleyball Men’s Junior Volleyball World Championship, the FIVB Volleyball Girls’ Youth World Championship begins in Ankara, Turkey. It runs from Au-gust 12-21 and the hosts will be looking to emulate the exam-ple of Turkey’s senior squad who performed exceptionally well at last year’s World Championship in Japan, finishing sixth after a solid run.

Finally Argentina will host the FIVB Volleyball Boys’ Youth World Championship from August 19-28. Argentina currently sit on top of the joint FIVB Youth and Junior World Rankings whilst their youth team has been playing in the ACLAV Argentine A2 Senior League to prepare. Another team with high hopes are Brazil whose coach Percy Oncken expects his side to deliver, saying that they will arrive in Buenos Aires “in good shape”.

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Beach Volleyball

africa rounds up sub-zonal phaseThe sub-zonal phase of the CAVB Conti-nental Cup came to an end in February as Africa now looks forward to the start of the zonal phase later this year.

Although sub-zonal competitions were held across Africa, no countries were eliminated and all will move on to the next stage. Points were given for where

continental cup catch up

NORCECA saw four more teams qualify for the next stage of the Continental Cup at the end of January in Nicaragua.

caVB (men) Maputo, Mozambique, February 4-6, 2011

Wins Losses

Mozambique 2 0

Zimbabwe 1 1

Swaziland 0 2

caVB (women) Maputo, Mozambique, February 4-6, 2011

Wins Losses

Mozambique 2 0

Zimbabwe 1 1

Swaziland 0 2

*Countries that qualified for the next stage.**Knock-out competition format.For further information and photos visit www.fivb.org

nORceca (men) Montelimar, Nicaragua, January 28-30**

Position

Costa Rica* 1st

Guatemala* 2nd

Nicaragua* 3rd

El Salvador* 4th

Honduras 5th

Panama 5th

nORceca (women) Montelimar, Nicaragua, January 28-30**

Position

Costa Rica* 1st

Panama* 2nd

Guatemala* 3rd

El Salvador* 4th

Nicaragua 5th

Honduras 5th

fiVB extends contract with BVaWBeach volleyball fans around the world will once again have the chance to rub shoulders with some of the world’s top players after the FIVB re-newed its collaboration with Beach Volley Around the World (BVAW) for 2011-12.

Introduced in February last year, BVAW allows amateur players to take part in a three-day tournament and attend clinics led by the sport’s big names at spectacular venues on the FIVB Swatch World Tour. In what is a fantastic way to encourage greater participation in the sport of beach volleyball, BVAW also

provides a festival atmosphere with concerts and other tourist attractions as part of each tournament’s agenda.

The Beach Volley Around the World initiative will allow amateur players to compete at the FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour venues

caVB (men) Cotonou, Benin, October 30-31, 2010

Wins Losses

Nigeria 2 0

Niger 1 1

Algeria 1 1

Benin 0 2

caVB (women) Cotonou, Benin, October 30-31, 2010

Wins Losses

Algeria 2 0

Nigeria 1 1

Niger 1 1

Benin 0 2

caVB (men) Lome, Togo, November 5-7, 2010

Wins Losses

Togo 2 0

Côte d’Ivoire 1 1

Ghana 1 1

Burkina 0 2

caVB (women) Lome, Togo, November 5-7, 2010

Wins Losses

Ghana 2 0

Togo 1 1

Côte d’Ivoire 1 1

caVB (men) Kigali, Rwanda, December 2-12, 2010

Wins Losses

Rwanda 2 0

Kenya 1 1

Burundi 1 1

Uganda 0 2

caVB (women) Kigali, Rwanda, December 2-12, 2010

Wins Losses

Kenya 2 0

Rwanda 1 1

Uganda 1 1

Burundi 0 2

caVB (men) Dakar, Senegal, January 8-10, 2011

Wins Losses

Senegal 3 0

Cape Verde 2 1

Guinea-Bissau 1 1

Gambia 1 1

Mauritania 0 1

caVB (men) Khartoum, Sudan, December 24-25, 2010

Wins Losses

Egypt 2 0

Sudan 1 1

Djibouti 0 2

caVB (women) Dakar, Senegal, January 8-10, 2011

Wins Losses

Senegal 3 0

Guinea-Bissau 2 1

Cape Verde 1 1

Mauritania 1 1

Gambia 0 1

caVB (men) Freetown, Sierra Leone, January 14-15, 2011

Wins Losses

Morocco 2 0

Sierra Leone 1 1

Liberia 1 1

Guinea Conakry 0 2

caVB (women) Freetown, Sierra Leone, January 14-15, 2011

Wins Losses

Morocco 2 0

Sierra Leone 1 1

Guinea Conakry 1 1

Liberia 0 2

caVB (men) Windhoek, Namibia, January 21-23, 2011

Wins Losses

South Africa 2 0

Namibia 1 1

Zambia 0 2

caVB (women) Windhoek, Namibia, January 21-23, 2011

Wins Losses

Mauritius 2 0

Namibia 1 1

South Africa 0 2

caVB (men) Douala, Cameroon, January 27-29, 2011

Wins Losses

Libya 2 0

Central African Republic 1 1

Cameroon 1 1

Gabon 0 2

caVB (women) Douala, Cameroon, January 27-29, 2011

Wins Losses

Cameroon 2 0

Gabon 1 1

Libya 1 1

Central African Republic 0 2

each side finished in their group and these will now help establish the seed-ings for the next round.

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World Volley NewsTechnical & Development

Mikasa signs as fiVB official game ball supplier for 2013-2016

The FIVB announced the awarding of the official game ball supplier con-tract for volleyball and beach volley-ball for the 2013-2016 period to the Mikasa Corporation on February 14.

The new contract was signed at the FIVB headquarters in Lausanne, Swit-zerland by FIVB President Mr Jizhong Wei, and Mr Taketoshi Saeki, president of the Mikasa Corporation.

Mikasa has acquired the sponsorship, marketing and licensing rights for the official game ball for all FIVB flagship events, including the FIVB Volleyball World Championships, FIVB Volley-ball World Cup, FIVB Volleyball World League and Volleyball World Grand Prix, and the FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Championships and FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour.

Commenting on the awarding of these rights, Mr Wei said: “Mikasa has shown a strong commitment to the FIVB and the growth of volleyball and beach vol-leyball for more than 40 years. We are very proud to continue our success-ful collaboration for another period of four years, an exciting time that in-cludes the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.”

FIVB President Mr Jizhong Wei and President of the Mikasa Corporation Mr Taketoshi Saeki signed the new contract at the FIVB’s headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland

fiVB Volleyball cooperation Programme calendar - March 2011

CouNTry Type orG.DATes

DAysFrom To

Seychelles VCp refereeing FIVB 14.03.11 19.03.11 6

Samoa VCp Teachers FIVB 21.03.11 26.03.11 6

Netherlands Antilles VCp Teachers FIVB 21.03.11 26.03.11 6

Eritrea Beach Grassroots FIVB 25.03.11 30.03.11 6

Successful FIVB courses took place in (from left to right) Ghana and the Dominican Republic in February

“The Mikasa Corporation is exceedingly honoured with the contract and wishes to continue cooperating with the FIVB to pro-mote the growth of the sport of volleyball

all over the world,” Mr Saeki said. “We look forward to continuing our role in giving volleyball fans around the world the best product to play the sport of volleyball.”

uganda outlines youth development projectThe FIVB has given the green light to the first youth development project for volleyball in Uganda.

Approved on February 17, the ‘Youth 1000’ project is designed to improve the game at the grassroots level in Uganda, providing a solid foundation for the country to build on in the fu-ture. The initiative will see a number of development centres being estab-lished across the country for use by primary and secondary schools. The FIVB will also provide funds for equip-ment such as balls and nets during the three-year project.“This is a big breakthrough, as it will be a benchmark for other projects,” Uganda Volleyball Federation chair-man Sadiq Nasiwu said. “I am sure this will take our game to a higher level.”

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Confederations

The Alge-ria wom-en’s team met for the first

time in 2011 when they got together on Febru-ary 12 for the first step of their preparations for the next 12 months of competition.The team, who trained from February 12-15, are due to take part in four tournaments this year: the All-Afri-ca Games in Maputo, Mozambique; the Pan-Arab Games in Doha, Qatar; the African Na-tions Championship; and a London 2012 Ol-ympic Games qualify-ing tournament, with the venues for the last two events yet to be decided.The meeting was held at the Mehdi Hotel in Staoueli and 11 of the players under-went fitness and medical checks.Algeria took part in last year’s FIVB Vol-

algeria squad get down to business

Beach volleyball players and enthusiasts in the Maldives will get the chance to rub shoulders with some of the

world’s top players after the Volleyball As-sociation of Maldives (VAM) unveiled its collaboration with the government and Organising Committee of the upcoming Maldives Beach Games 2011.The Maldives Beach Games 2011, which were officially inaugurated on February 10 by the Sri Lankan cricket star Sanath Jayasuriya, will have nine sports, includ-ing beach volleyball for both genders. The tournament will run from September 18-25 this year.The event will provide an opportunity to encourage greater participation in the sport and to promote it further in the Maldives, according to the VAM president, Mr Mohamed Riyaz. “We are grateful to have the opportunity to continue the excellent progress we have made in the past two years and to further develop the sport with support from our fans and to help our beach volleyball players to gain more experience.”Mr. Riyaz also holds the role of chairman of the Technical Commission for the Maldives Beach Games 2011 and VAM is working closely with the AVC and FIVB to make this event a success.

Beach Games boost for Maldives’ beach volleyball

Algeria finished 21st at last year’s FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship and have aspirations to reach the London 2012 Olympics

The Maldives (in white) took part in Pool A of the Continental Beach Volleyball Cup last August and the Maldives Beach Games will help bring more players to their home beaches

leyball Women’s World Championship in Japan and finished 21st, failing to pick up a win. However, they are hop-

ing for better this year and are eager to establish a good foundation to build upon.

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World Volley NewsConfederations

cSV congress celebrates South american success

The 64th Congress of the South American Volley-ball Confederation (CSV) opened in Rio de Janeiro on February 27 as CSV President Dr Ary Graça underlined the sport’s continued progress on the continent.

Teams from South America lead the way in the FIVB’s World Rankings with Brazil top of the senior men, sen-ior women and women’s junior and youth tables, and Argentina heading the men’s junior and youth catego-ries.

“America confirmed its position as the continent that wins the most and today is the leader of the FIVB World Rankings in all the indoor categories, both for men and women,” Dr Graça said. “And this year once again we’ll have to show the world that we are capable of hosting big events with the highest level of quality and organisation.”

For the first time, the South American continent will host three World Champi-onships (the men’s junior, women’s jun-ior and boys’ youth) in the same year and

The 64th CSV Congress took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In an initiative strongly supported by the CEV, six female officials helped ref-eree the final of Belgium’s National Cup in Antwerp on February 13 between Asterix Kieldrecht and VDK

Gent Dames.Former international referee Johan Cal-lens, who currently chairs Belgium’s Ref-ereeing Commission, backed the propos-al whereby Marie-Cathérine Boulanger and Hilde Pierco, and Nancy Snels, Valérie de Groote, Heidi Schoors and Sofie Goos were named respectively as the two ref-erees and four line judges to take charge of the final. The game was held at the Lotto Arena in front of 3,000 spectators and it was eventually Asterix Kieldrecht, led by national coach Gert Van de Broek, who claimed their 10th title after a nail-biting five-setter (25-22, 25-23, 13-25, 19-25, 15-12).

“It was a unique experience whistling for such an audience, in such an important game with two teams that only three days ago had played the eighth final of the 2011 GM Capital Challenge Cup against Schweriner SC of Germany and Uralochka-NTMK Ekaterinburg of Russia respectively,” first referee Boulanger said.

Six women officials oversee Belgian cup final

Dr Graça feels that this is of great signifi-cance in ratifying the strength of South America on the international stage.

The resolutions of the Executive Com-mittee were announced at the General Assembly and the decision to establish a South American Youth Champion-ship – for 15-year-old girls and 16-year-

Asterix Kieldrecht eventually clinched the title and received the trophy from the CEV senior vice-president and treasurer, Philip Berben

“There were only a few minor discussions about our decisions, but that’s normal with the tension that the players are

feeling in such games,” second referee Pierco added.

old boys – earned applause from the 11 presidents present.

Uruguay will host the first girls’ compe-tition and Ecuador the boys’ event. The creation of the competition marks an important step in youth development, and should help with the discovery of new talent.

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The NORCECA Interna-tional Press Seminar at the FIVB Regional De-velopment Centre in the Dominican Republic proved a major success

according to Mr Cristobal Marte Hoffiz, the FIVB first executive vice-president and NORCECA president, as it concluded on February 5.

“We have experienced two very fruitful days that will benefit our communica-tions plan and will definitely contribute to improving the consistency and uni-formity of our press reports,” Marte Hof-fiz said of the two-day event.He had earlier taken the opportunity to present the NORCECA development plan and explain the beach volleyball Olympic qualification process through the Conti-nental Cup.More than 30 journalists from Anguilla, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominican Re-public, Guatemala, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St Kitts & Nevis, St Vincent & Grenadines and USA took part in the forum.Roosevelt Comarazamy, NORCECA press officer and coordinator of the seminar, said that the main goal was to inform journalists of the way that FIVB press delegates operate at major competitions

nORceca holds first press seminar

The International Olympic Commit-tee applauded the FIVB’s develop-ment strategy in a letter from IOC President Dr Jacques Rogge and it was confirmed that the FIVB Club World Championships would fea-ture a women’s edition for the first time since 1994.

this time a year ago… DATes eVeNT CouNTry orG. Type M/W

2011 Global calendar - events - Volleyball & Beach Volleyball

December 1-March 31 2011 All African Games qualification Various CAVB VB M/W

March 1-April 30 Men’s African Club Champions Championship Morocco CAVB VB M

March 1-April 30 Women’s African Club Champions Championship Kenya CAVB VB W

March 2-4 AVC Continental Cup – Central Asia Group B Iran AVC BVB M

March 8-13 european Cups: Men’s CeV Challenge Cup Final Various CEV VB M

March 19-20 european Cups: Champions League Final Turkey CEV VB W

March 26-27 european Cups: Champions League Final Italy CEV VB M

March 29-April 3 european Cups: Women’s CeV Challenge Cup Final Various CEV VB W

March 30-April 10 Women’s Africa Club Championship Kenya CAVB VB W

April 1-3 NorCeCA u-13 Girls’ youth Festival Dominican Republic NORCECA VB W

April 8-10 NorCeCA u-13 Boys’ youth Festival Dominican Republic NORCECA VB M

April 13-18 eCVA Men’s Junior Tournament Anguilla NORCECA VB M

April 16-24 Boys’ youth CeV Championship Final round Turkey CEV VB M

April 30-May 8 Girls’ youth CeV Championship Final round Turkey CEV VB W

and to adjust the system to the differ-ent local conditions. “Our objective is to make sure that all our press people are on the same page so we can obtain a similar product,” Comarazamy said.There were contributions from USA Vol-leyball’s press manager, Bill Kauffman, and the press director of the 2011 Pan American Games, Juan Jose Martinez of

Mexico, among others.The seminar closed with Professor Nelson Ramirez, director of the FIVB Regional Development Centre in the Dominican Republic, presenting certifi-cates of participation in a small ceremo-ny attended by Mr Luis Mejia Oviedo, president of the Dominican Republic Olympic Committee.

Journalists from 15 countries took part in the press seminar at the FIVB’s Regional Development Centre in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

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World Volley NewsEquipment

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