Official Bulletin no. 52 June 2010

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World VolleyNews

in this issueVolleyball

• FIVB World League kicks off• YOG qualification comes to an endBeach Volleyball

• Korea and Poland welcome SWATCH FIVB World Tour

• Brazil and USA celebrate success in Shanghai

technical & Development

• Volleyball Medical Congress in January 2011

• Real Winner launches in French and Spanish

confederations

• Iran and Japan qualify for YOG• Kenya Prisons win Africa Club

Champs• Venezuela initiates project to

attract new talent• Lases Cup finishes in Latvia• FIVB and NORCECA’s Haiti efforts

honoured

Bumper Volleyball season begins

The month of June is the traditional starting period for the interna-tional Volleyball season with the

premier annual men’s event - the FIVB World League – taking centre stage. In its 21st edition it continues to grow in popularity and competitiveness.I’m proud to say, that following the in-augural promotion-relegation series at the end of last year, we welcome two new teams – Germany and Egypt. They, like all the teams, will believe they have the talent and skills to claim the trophy, and this belief is an essen-tial starting point for success.The success of the FIVB World League had similar beginnings. The FIVB had a belief in a successful product which would encapsulate the imagination of Volleyball aficionados around the world. And the same can be said for an ath-lete. Belief is what launches a career, gives the impetus to go to training regularly. It also corresponds to the FIVB Technical and Development De-partment which has the belief that all of its activities make a difference. While the successful FIVB World League is taking place, we will never forget the beginnings of the athletes and constantly invest in grass roots Volleyball and Beach Volleyball. The FIVB prides itself on the daily develop-ment work it accomplishes because without the stars of tomorrow we would have no World League.There are now 16 teams vying for the title, and the competition is watched by millions of people in hundreds of countries making this a truly global competition. How many of those mil-lions watching today could be next year’s leading libero? This is our chal-lenge, and one we relish taking on.

Mr. Jizhong Wei, FIVB President

uSa pull off double at Rome Grand Slam■ it was an american sweep on May 23 at the uS$600,000 foro italico Beach Volley Grand Slam as reigning Olympic cham-pions Phil Dalhausser and todd Rogers joined their compatriots Jen Kessy and april Ross with gold medal victories at the third SWatcH fiVB World tour event of the 2010 season.

Kessy and Ross beat Germany’s Sara Goller and Laura Ludwig 21-19 and 21-17 for the women’s title, while top-seeded Dal-hausser and Rogers followed with a 23-21 and 21-11 win over Brazil’s Alison Cerutti and Emanuel Rego.It was the third meeting between the American and Brazilian men this season with two of the matches for SWATCH FIVB World Tour titles. Dalhausser and Rogers defeated Alison and Emanuel for the Brasilia gold medal in April 21-16 and 21-12 and in May, Alison and Emanuel scored a 21-16, 12-21 and 15-13 bronze med-al win in Shanghai, China.

“After playing two very tough matches on Saturday to reach the semi-finals, it was great to only play two sets in each of our wins,” the 36-year old Rogers said.

“We defeated two very good teams and we played very well in both matches. It is great to have two gold medals to our credit this season after three events.”In the bronze medal match, Gavira and Herrera earned their first SWATCH FIVB World Tour medal in 2010 with a 21-17 and 21-17 win over Germany’s Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann, the de-fending Rome champions.In the women’s contest, Kessy and Ross captured their eighth international gold medal in 14 title matches along with sharing the US$43,500 first-place prize in the third of 15 women’s events on the 2010 SWATCH FIVB World Tour calendar.

“It is great to win a finale in Rome, es-pecially with it being a Grand Slam event,” said the 27-year old Ross, who has teamed with Kessy to win their four

“major” SWATCH events. “It has been a long week with the matches stretched

Mr. Jizhong Wei, FIVB President

out over a six-day period. We started the season slowly coming fourth in the opener in Brazil last month and we are playing our best Beach Volleyball now.”The gold medal match was the first-time the two countries have competed against each other for a SWATCH FIVBWorld Tour women’s title as the previous nine German finales were against Brazil-ian (eight times) and Dutch pairs. With seven-straight match wins in Rome, Kessy and Ross are the top-ranked team on the 2010 SWATCH FIVB World Tour.

Continued on page 3

The top three teams from both genders on the podium at the first Grand Slam of the 2010 SWATCH FIVB World Tour in Rome, Italy on May 23

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Brazil will be looking to repeat their FIVB World League victory last year in Belgrade, Serbia when the competition reaches its climax in Cordoba, Argentina

The opening day of the 21st edition of the FIVB World League will begin on June 4, officially kicking off a mouth-watering season of international Vol-leyball.

The World League is seen as the premier annual international men’s Volleyball tournament and has been since its es-tablishment in 1990. This year 16 sides will battle it out in four pools across 43 cities worldwide for a place in the Final Round of the competition, set to take place in Cordoba, Argentina for the first time.Argentina has only previously hosted the Final Round once, in Mar del Plata 11 years ago in 1999 and they will have a lot to live up to if they want to repli-cate last year’s final in Belgrade, Serbia where 22,680 supporters saw the home side go down 3-2 to Brazil in an exhila-rating final.

“The FIVB World League has always been seen as a good indicator as to how teams perform on a regular basis, and this

year’s competition is likely to be elec-tric with sides grap-pling for momen-tum ahead of the FIVB Men’s World Championship later this year,” Mr. Theofanis Tsiokris, FIVB 2nd Execu-tive Vice-President and Sports Event Council President said. “This is a tour-nament all teams want to win and you seldom see less than 110% dedication on the court throughout the competition.”

“I have no doubt that this year’s edition of the FIVB World League will be another which grabs the attention of all sports fans,” FIVB World League Council Presi-dent Mr. Francesco Franchi added. “You

Men’s and women’s clubs from Af-rica and Europe have now qualified for the FIVB Club World Champion-ships, due to take place in Doha, Qatar from December 14-21.

Italy’s Volley Bergamo women’s club were the first to qualify on April 4 after overcoming Fenerbah-ce of Turkey in the CEV Women’s Champions League before Trentino of Italy won the chance to defend the title they won last year by beat-ing Russia’s Dinamo Moscow in the men’s edition of the competition on May 2.

Bergamo will be joined by Kenya Prisons who beat Kenya Pipeline in the Women’s African Club Champi-onship on May 17 whilst Al Ahly of Egypt beat compatriots Zamalek to book their place at the tournament on April 30.

World club champs qualifying under way

Youth Olympic Games qualification comes to an endAll six spots at the inaugural Youth Ol-ympic Games have now been filled in both genders as Iran and Japan clinched the final spots following the conclu-sion of the Asian Boys’ and Girls’ Youth Championships.

Iran beat China in front of their home fans in Tehran in the boys’ tournament on May 21 before Japan beat China in

Iran (right) beat China in the final of the Asian Boys’ Youth Volleyball Championship on May 21 claiming the final berth for the YOG

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in the girls’ edi-tion on May 29 to secure their ticket to the first Youth Olympic Games, due to take place in Singapore from August 14-26 this year.

Iran will join South American champions Argentina, African champions DR Congo, NORCECA champions Cuba, FIVB Boys’ Youth world champions Serbia and Eu-ropean Championship bronze medalists Russia as France pulled out earlier this year due to athlete quota allowances.

Meanwhile, Japan will join European champions Belgium, African champions Egypt, South American champions Peru, NORCECA champions USA and hosts Singapore.

To find out more about the Asian Youth Championships see page 5 and for more information about the Youth Olympic Games visit http://www.fivb.org/EN/Volleyball/Competitions/YouthOlym pics/2010/

The winners of the Young Writers 4 Young Players competi-tion, which will see two budding journalists travel to Singapore to report for the FIVB at the Youth Olympic Games, were an-nounced on May 14.Seth Rubinroit, 18, from the USA and Cecilia Mussi, 21, from Italy will travel to the Games to follow the Volleyball tourna-

Winners of the fiVB’s Young Writers 4 Young Players announced

MEN & WOMEN

fiVB World league kicks off international Volleyball season

will have the chance to witness many of the best men’s Volleyball teams and players in the world aiming to reach the ultimate goal – the FIVB World League Final Round.”

ment taking place from August 21-26 and write match reports, previews and features exclusively for the FIVB website.To read the winning articles from Cecilia and Seth visit the Young Writers 4 Young Players page at http://www.fivb.org/EN/Volleyball/Competitions/YouthOlympics/2010/Men/YoungWriters.asp

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Dalhausser and Rogers celebrated victory in Poland as Juliana and Larissa claimed the Seoul Open title in Korea

Beach Volleyball

Brazil and uSa celebrate success in Shanghai

Jen Kessy (right) in jubilation with partner April Ross after winning gold at the Rome Grand Slam

Harley Marques (right) stretches for the ball during the Shanghai Open men’s gold medal match as Brazilian partner Pedro Salgado watches

May 17-22 - Women’s Grand Slam Rome, italy - Podium finish

1 GOlDKessy/Ross uSa

2 SilVeRGoller/ludwig GeR

3 BROnZeantonelli/talita BRa

May 18-23 - Men’s Grand Slam Rome, italy - Podium finish

1 GOlDDalhausser/Rogers uSa

2 SilVeRalison/emanuel BRa

3 BROnZeGavira/Herrera eSP

The 2010 FIVB Beach Volley-ball Handbook released in line with the beginning of the SWATCH FIVB World Tour has been received well in many quar-ters.

After a copy was sent to His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco, the FIVB received a letter of thanks from the monarch.The Handbook provides organizers with guidelines for things such as market-ing, press and media, TV broadcasting and competition regulations as they set about planning their SWATCH FIVB World Tour event. It can be found at http://www.fivb.org/EN/BeachVolley ball/Competitions/WorldTour/2010/Handbook.asp

Beach Volleyball Handbook gets royal seal of approval

Continued from page 1

In the bronze medal match Brazil’s Antonelli and Talita scored a 21-15 and 21-9 win over USA’s Nicole Branagh and Misty May-Treanor. It was the second-straight third-place SWATCH match between the two teams with Antonelli and

Pedro Salgado and Harley Marques of Brazil defeated Germany’s Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann 21-15, 13-21 and 17-15 to claim the Shanghai Open title on May 8 as USA’s April Ross and Jen Kessy beat Brazil’s Juliana Felisber-ta Silva and Larissa Franca 15-21, 21-16 and 15-12 to clinch the women’s crown.

With this victory Harley captured his fourth straight Shanghai Open gold

medal and his third with Salgado. Har-ley won last year with Alison Cerutti, who partners Emanuel Rego this sea-son. Salgado and Harley now have a perfect 10-0 career record in FIVB gold medal matches.It was the seventh career FIVB gold med-al for Ross and Kessy, the reigning FIVB world champions. In 35 FIVB internation-al tournaments together, the Americans now have 16 podium finishes.

May 3-8 - Women’s Open Shanghai, china - Podium finish

1 GOlDKessy/Ross uSa

2 SilVeRGoller/ludwig GeR

3 BROnZeantonelli/talita BRa

May 4-9 - Men’s Open Shanghai, china - Podium finish

1 GOlDPedro/Harley BRa

2 SilVeRBrink/Reckermann GeR

3 BROnZealison/emanuel BRa

May 25-30 - Men’s Open Myslowice, Poland - Podium finish

1 GOlDDalhausser/Rogers uSa

2 SilVeRHerrera/Gavira eSP

3 BROnZeBrink/Reckermann GeR

May 25-30 - Women’s Open Seoul, Korea - Podium finish

1 GOlDlarissa/Juliana BRa

2 SilVeRakers/turner uSa

3 BROnZeKessy/Ross uSa

Talita defeating the Americans in Shang-hai. The next SWATCH FIVB World Tour-Grand Slam event is due to take place in Moscow, Russia from June 7-14.

Poland and Korea welcome SWatcH fiVB World tour starsUSA’s Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers picked up their fifth gold medal in six tries on the SWATCH FIVB World Tour in Myslo-wice, Poland as Brazil’s Juliana Felisberta Silva and Larissa Franca claimed the Seoul Open gold medal in Korea on May 30.

The top-seeded Dalhausser and Rog-ers scored a 21-15 and 21-13 win in 36 minutes over fourth-seeded Adrian Ga-vira and Pablo Herrera of Spain to share the $30,000 first-place prize on the final day of competition while Juliana and Lar-issa outlasted fourth-seeded Angie Ak-ers and Tyra Turner of the United States, 21-11 and 21-18 in their 33-minute final.

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Injury risk in Volleyball is much lower than many other sports however the Medical Congress is designed to help lower this risk even further

Technical & Development

Successful FIVB courses took place (from top to bottom) in Senegal, Uganda, Argentina and Thailand in May

landmark Volleyball Medical congress to launch in 2011The FIVB announced the launch of the FIVB World Congress on Volleyball Medicine on May 12, with the event set to take place from January 13-15 next year in Bled, Slovenia. The landmark Congress will focus primarily on how to avoid and deal with common inju-ries suffered in Volleyball as well as the ongoing issues with doping in world sport, specifically the FIVB’s “We Play it Clean!” anti-doping program.

Keynote speakers include Chairman of the FIVB Medical Commission Roald Bahr from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center in Norway, Elizabeth Arendt from the University of Minnesota, Lars Enge-bresten from the University of Oslo and Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, and Pavels Mustafins from Riga Stradins Uni-versity in Latvia and the Latvian Academy of Sports Pedagogy.

“Through its Medical Commission, the FIVB has looked at how injuries and ill-ness can be prevented, how the risk of long-term disability can be reduced

Real Winner, the FIVB’s Anti-Doping educational programme for players launched its French and Spanish ver-sions of the website on May 11 hoping to broadcast the organization’s “We play it clean” message to many more athletes across the globe.Real Winner aims to educate athletes, coaches and national federations about illegal substances through a wide range of modules which include the out-

Real Winner launches in french and Spanish

fiVB technical courses and Seminars calendar - June 2010

COUNTRY TYPe ORG.DATeS

DAYSFrom To

India T.S. Middle Player FIVB 01.06.10 05.06.10 5

St. Lucia Coaches Level II OS 07.06.10 19.06.10 5Senegal T.S. Teachers FIVB 15.06.10 19.06.10 5Slovenia Coaches Level II OS 20.06.10 02.07.10 13Venezuela T.S. VIS FIVB 25.06.10 29.06.10 5Bahrain Coaches Level II FIVB 26.06.10 08.07.10 13Barbados Coaches Level I FIVB 28.06.10 09.07.10 12Tunisia Coaches Level I FIVB 29.06.10 10.07.10 12

fiVB Volleyball cooperation Programme calendar - June 2010

COUNTRY TYPe ORG.DATeS

DAYSFrom To

Tanzania VCP - Teachers FIVB 05.06.10 09.06.10 5

Yemen VCP - Young Players FIVB 07.06.10 11.06.10 5

Colombia VCP - Coaches FIVB 13.06.10 20.06.10 8

St. Vincent & Grenadines VCP - Young Players FIVB 21.06.10 25.06.10 5

Comoros VCP - Young Players FIVB 21.06.10 25.06.10 5

Nicaragua VCP - Teachers FIVB 27.06.10 01.07.10 5

Lebanon VCP - Refereeing FIVB 28.06.10 02.07.10 5

by proper diagnosis, treatment and reha-bilitation, and how to maintain Volleyball as a drug-free sport,” FIVB President Mr. Jizhong Wei said. “The FIVB is a signatory to the World Anti-dop-ing Code, and our an-ti-doping education and testing program ranks second to none. In keeping with our commitment to pro-tect the health of our players, FIVB has tak-en the initiative to or-ganize the FIVB World Congress on Volleyball Medicine, which will be the perfect plat-form for physicians, physical therapists, athletic trainers, biomechanists and oth-er scientists to share their views on Vol-leyball injuries and illnesses. Although it

is not the first of its kind, this promises to be a landmark congress, covering the entire field of Volleyball medicine with a star line-up of world-renowned experts.”

lines of the FIVB’s anti-doping position, health consequences and possible sce-narios should a player test positive for a banned substance.The website also educates athletes about their responsibilities, thus help-ing players understand the rights they have when it comes to the anti-doping laws, ensuring they have a better under-standing on how the FIVB views doping and doping cases.

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Kenya Prisons became the second team to qualify for

the FIVB Women’s Club World Championship af-ter beating compatriots Kenya Pipeline 3-1 (23-25, 25-14, 25-10, 25-21) in the final of the 2010 Women’s African Club Champion-ship in Vacoas, Mauritius on May 17.

The side will now repre-sent Africa at the FIVB Club World Champion-ships, due to be held in Doha, Qatar from Decem-ber 14-21, joining Italian side Volley Bergamo who qualified for the tour-nament after beating Fenerbahce from Turkey 3-2 (25-22, 25-21, 22-25, 20-25, 15-8) in the final of the CEV Indesit Champi-ons League on April 4.

Egyptian side Al Ahly claimed the 2010 Men’s African Club Championship at the end of April beat-

Kenya Prisons win africa club champs to claim World club champs berth

Iran’s youth boys’ team and Japan’s youth girls’ team are set to represent Asia at the inaugural Youth

Olympic Games after both winning the Asian Youth Championships in May.

Iran defended their Asian Youth Boys’ Volleyball Championship title with a 3-2 (25-17, 26-28, 28-26, 22-25, 15-7) victory over China in their final on May 21 before Japan stunned rivals China in the Asian Youth Girls’ Volleyball Cham-pionship final beating them 3-0 (25-21, 25-20, 25-14) in a breathless match on May 28.

Iran, who lost only one match to Korea in the preliminary round, will now travel to Singapore for the first Youth Olympic Games from August 14-26, as well as the 2011 FIVB Boys’ Youth World Cham-pionship along with China and Korea, who finished third with a 3-1 (25-21, 23-25, 25-21, 25-17) victory over India.

As well as qualifying for the Games, Japan, as well as China and bronze-medalists Thailand, qualified for the 2011 FIVB Girls’ Youth Volleyball World Championship.

iran and Japan qualify for Youth Olympic Games

Kenya Prisons overcame Kenya Pipeline in the final of the 2010 Women’s African Club Championship and will represent the region at the FIVB Club World Championships later this year

Japan celebrate victory at the Asian Youth Girls’ Volleyball Championship. They will now travel to Singapore later this year for the Youth Olympic Games

ing compatriots Zamalek in the final. They join Italy’s Trentino, defending

club world champions, in the men’s contest.

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Venezuela initiates project to attract new talent

Following the end of the Venezuela U13 Boys’ and Girls’ Nation-al Championships, the Venezuela Volleyball Federation (FEVE) held a tournament designed

to recruit new Volleyball talent to potentially represent the country in future international events.

Carabobo won the boys’ competi-tion, which took place in Porlamar and Margarita Island, followed by Yaracuy and Miranda.

Meanwhile, Miranda picked up the girls’ title with Carabobo claiming second and Aragua La Guaira picking up third at their tournament in Vargas State.

According to the FEVE, the com-petitions’ participants will help form the bulk of the national teams that will participate in next year’s U14 Girls’ and U15 Boys’ South American Champion-ships, established at the South American Volleyball Federations’ 63rd Congress held last April in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The Venezuela Volleyball Federation hopes their new development initiative will strengthen their youth programme in the coming years

One of the largest inter-national youth Volleyball competitions, the Lases Cup 2010, came to a close during May in Riga, Latvia. This year the Latvian Vol-leyball Federation, in col-

laboration with Rigas Piena Kombinats (Riga Milk Complex) and with the sup-

lases cup finishes in latvia

A total of 106 teams attended this year’s final in Riga, Latvia, a record for the tournament

port of the Riga City Council, organized the competition for the ninth time. During the past nine years the Lases Cup has become the largest and most popu-lar Volleyball competition for school teams in Latvia. A total of 66 teams par-ticipated in the first final, but this year a record-breaking number of 106 attended the last stage of the competition.

A total of 125 teams took part in the 2010 Mosöld Volleyball tourna-ment in Reykjavik, Iceland from May 13-15, a new record for the annual competition.

The competition is specifically de-signed for masters (age 30+) and be-gan 35 years ago as a small tourna-ment held by the Icelandic Volleyball Association.

This year’s tournament featured 17 more teams than in 2009 with 43 teams playing in the men’s divi-sion and 82 teams taking part in the women’s tournament.

Around 1’000 participants joined to-gether for the event plus many vol-unteers.

Additionally, all profits derived from the tournament are directly filitered back into the youth and the develop-ment of the sport in Iceland.

For more information please visit the official site www.mosold.is

tournament in iceland success once more

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DATeS eVeNT COUNTRY ORG. M/W

2010 Global calendar - events - Volleyball & Beach Volleyball

June 1-30 15th Princess Cup Women's Invitation Thailand AVC WJune 1-30 22nd Asian Men's Pacific Cup Japan AVC MJune 4-July 11 european League - League Round Men Various CEV MJune 4-July 10 World League 2010 Various FIVB MJune 5-13 Asian Men's Club Championship China AVC MJune 7-14 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Moscow Grand Slam Russia FIVB M/WJune 8-13 Montreux Volley Masters 2010 Switzerland FIVB Rec WJune 11-July 18 european League - League Round Women Various CEV WJune 15-20 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Prague Open Czech Republic FIVB MJune 16-27 IX Pan-American Cup Mexico NORCECA M/WJune 17-21 eCVA Tournament Antigua & Barbuda NORCECA M/WJune 26-July 4 Asian Women's Club Championship Indonesia AVC WJune 28-July 4 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Stavanger Grand Slam Norway FIVB M/WJuly 1-31 7th VTV Cup Women Invitation Vietnam AVC WJuly 1-31 Oceania Championships for Volleyball and BeachV New Zealand AVC M/WJuly 4-12 Women’s Junior Continental Championship Mexico NORCECA WJuly 4-11 31st World Military Volleyball Championship-Men Bulgaria Various MJuly 5-11 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Gstaad Grand Slam Switzerland FIVB M/WJuly 6-11 8th Cup Mr. Boris Yeltsin Tournament Russia FIVB Rec MJuly 8-12 U-13 Youth Festival Dominican Republic NORCECA MJuly 15-19 U-13 Youth Festival Dominican Republic NORCECA WJuly 15-19 eCVA Tournament Saint Lucia NORCECA M/WJuly 16-17 european League Final Round - Men Spain CEV MJuly 17-Aug 1 XXI Central American and Caribbean Games Puerto Rico MULTI M/WJuly 19-25 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Marseille Open France FIVB M/WJuly 21-25 World League Final Round Argentina FIVB MJuly 24-25 european League Final Round - Women Turkey CEV WJuly 26-Aug 1 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Klagenfurt Grand Slam Austria FIVB M/WJuly 27-29 Piemonte Woman Cup Italy FIVB Rec W

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The FIVB’s efforts in helping the earthquake stricken country of Haiti were recognised by the Pan American Sports Or-ganisation (PASO) Gener-

al Assembly, which concluded on May 10 in Merida, Mexico.The FIVB and the NORCECA Confedera-tion joined efforts to raise money and deliver water for the victims of the Haiti earthquake, which occurred on January 12.FIVB 1st Executive Vice-President Mr. Cristobal Marte Hoffiz, who was present on behalf of the FIVB, explained to the delegates at the meeting that the FIVB is prepared to continue to help Haiti by contributing to the construction of a Volleyball venue and providing all nec-essary Volleyball equipment.Meanwhile, the FIVB was recognized, along with other international federa-tions, for its cooperation with PASO in the solidarity programs in the Ameri-cas, especially in the Caribbean, provid-ing highly quality instructors for Vol-leyball.NORCECA made a donation of 20,000 bottles of water to aid the victims of the earthquake that struck the region.The Confederation delivered the aid

fiVB and nORceca’s Haiti efforts honoured

Mr. Cristobel Marte Hoffiz, FIVB 1st Executive Vice-President and NORCECA President, was on hand to accept the award and added that the FIVB plans to aid construction of a new Volleyball venue in Haiti

The FIVB Board of Administration convened with the 14-player rule one of the key decisions made. Ad-ditionally, FIVB President Mr. Jizhong Wei visited Serbia to tour the facili-ties for the FIVB World League 2009 Final Round.

this time a year ago…

through the Civil Defence, a Domini-can government organisation who are

helping supply donations to the devas-tated country.

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