Official Bulletin no. 47 January 2010

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World VolleyNews

in this issuefiVB

• Editorial

Volleyball

• Strong interest to host FIVB age group tournaments

• Volleyball review - Curtain closes on extraordinary year

• World Grand Prix pools confirmedBeach Volleyball

• World Champs highlight Beach Volleyball season

• Juliana, Harley and Schuil top 2009 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Award Winners

• New Beach Volleyball Bonus Pool Calculation further rewards player participation

technical & Development

• FIVB International Beach Volleyball clinic held in Dominican Republic

• Olympic Volleyball Beijing 2008 Technical Evaluation latest educational tool

• Coaches participate in a level II course in Chennai

fiVB President’s Seasons Greetings

As we enter another very busy and truly monumental year for Vol-leyball, I would like to take this

opportunity to extend my warmest wishes and Season’s Greetings to the Volleyball family.The past 12 months have been extraor-dinary for Volleyball with a total of 967 matches (449 women, 518 men) throughout the year, highlighted by the 2010 World Championships quali-fication matches and the return of the Men’s Club World Championships.However, the increase in Volleyball and Beach Volleyball development through-out the year has also been equally im-portant. The FIVB has invested more in development during 2009 than any oth-er year in its history by allocating more financial resources to the FIVB Confed-erations to help national federations. In 2010 the FIVB will invest more in de-velopment both financially and in terms of resources. A new development fund, controlled by the FIVB, will work in line with the IOC’s Olympic Solidarity pro-gram where all FIVB national federa-tions will have the opportunity to pro-pose projects for funding through their continental confederations. The FIVB will also ensure that the high quality of FIVB competition is main-tained whilst investing more in grass roots development, which will benefit all of the FIVB in the long term, and will be shared with national federations step by step. The FIVB has already started this sharing process by declaring that certain 2010 World Congress delegates’ travel and ac-commodation expenses will be covered. I look forward to another memorable year for the sport of Volleyball and en-joying it with you.Keep the ball flying!

Mr.JizhongWei,FIVBPresident

World champs highlight Beach Volleyball season ■ the SWatcH fiVB World champion-ships in norway followed by SWatcH fiVB World tour Grand Slam events in Switzerland, Russia, france and austria highlighted the 2009 international Beach Volleyball campaign as uS$7.2-million in prize money was distributed at 18 events in 15 countries.

The SWATCH FIVB World Tour events attracted competitors from 46 coun-tries and all five FIVB Confederations as the total participation number featured 748 players, including 401 men and 307 women. A total of 444 teams were formed as the pairs of Julius Brink/Jonas Reck-ermann of Germany and Brazil’s Juliana Felisberta Silva/Larissa Franca finished the season as the number one teams on the 2009 SWATCH FIVB World Tour.Prior to becoming only the fourth non-Brazilian men’s team to win the “tour” championship, Brink and Reckermann captured the 2009 SWATCH FIVB World Championships in Stavanger where the Germans defeated Alison Cerutti and Harley Marques of Brazil 21-16 and 21-19 in the 50-minute finale to capture the $60,000 first-place prize.Brink and Reckermann capitalized on their Stavanger success to win the first two SWATCH FIVB Grand Slam events in Switzerland and Russia by defeating 2003 world champions and 2004 Olym-pic gold medal winners Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos in a thrilling three-set finale in both Gstaad and Moscow.The German champions also set a new SWATCH FIVB World Tour record for most consecutive match wins (25) by a men’s

team as they won eight, seven and seven matches en route to gold medals in Sta-vanger, Gstaad and Moscow. The streak ended after three matches at the French Grand Slam in Marseille, where Ameri-can Olympic champions Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers defeated the pair in the semi-finals.Continuedpage4

Hosts Serbia finished second in the 2009 FIVB World League, runners up to champions Brazil. To read the Volleyball review of the year turn to page two

Mr. Jizhong Wei, FIVB President

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With the deadline for applications hav-ing closed on November 30, the FIVB announced that eight countries ap-plied to host the 2011 editions of the FIVB Junior and Youth World Champi-onships.

Applications from the national federa-tions of Iran and Brazil have been re-ceived at the FIVB head office in Switzer-land to host the FIVB Men’s Junior World Championship in Tehran and Niteroi and Rio de Janeiro respectively, while Lima, Peru is in contention to host the FIVB Women’s Junior World Championships. The FIVB Boy’s Youth World Champion-ship has one hosting candidate in Cairo, Egypt while Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Mexicali or Tijuana, Mexico and Ankara, Turkey Volleyball Federations are candi-dates to host the FIVB Girl’s Youth World Championship.

A decision on the host countries of each of the events will be announced by the end of February.

Last year’s FIVB Men’s Junior Volleyball World Championship was held in Pune, India

MEN & WOMEN

Strong interest to host fiVB age group tournaments

The biannual FIVB age group events were held in 2009 in Pune, India (Men’s Junior), Baja California, Mexico (Women’s Junior),

In one of the busiest FIVB calendars on record, an historic number of nations (95 for women and 105 for men) partici-pated in the year-long FIVB World Cham-pionships 2010 qualifying process, with 44 teams joining hosts Japan and Italy plus Russia and Brazil in the final round of the FIVB World Championships.

Other key highlights included the Brazil-ian men’s team claiming a record equal-ing (with Italy) eighth FIVB World League title in July after beating hosts Serbia in the final. Brazil won the incredible match 3-2 (22-25, 25-23, 25-22, 23-25, 15-12), with Sergio claiming the Most Valuable Player award in the process.

August saw the FIVB World Grand Prix take place with the Brazilian women’s team remaining unbeaten in the com-petitive round-robin final round in Japan to secure their eighth title and second in-a-row, beating Japan 3-1 in the final match in Tokyo. Russia secured the silver medal, sweeping aside the Netherlands easily in their final match. The surprise package of the tournament was Ger-many who, ranked 12th in the world, clinched third place after beating an off-form China in their final match.

November’s FIVB Grand Champions Cup was also deemed a great success again, having taken place in Japan. In the men’s edition, Brazil swept all comers aside re-maining unbeaten throughout the tour-

Volleyball review - curtain closes on extraordinary year

nament to successfully defend their title the first time in the tournament’s histo-ry. It is the third time the Brazilians have walked away with the Grand Champions Cup gold medal (2005 and 1997.)

Elsewhere Japan recorded its best result in the competition since 1977 with vic-

tories over Iran, Egypt and Poland secur-ing a third place finish.

In the women’s edition, 2007 World Cup champions Italy were victorious on their debut in the competition beating Japan in their final match 3-1 (32-30, 25-22, 24-26, 25-18).

The Dominican Republic recorded their best ever ranking in an FIVB tournament finishing third.

In another key development, Volleyball fans welcomed back after 17 years the re-turn of the FIVB Men’s Club World Volley-ball Championship in Doha, Qatar in No-vember, and for the fifth time in a row, the title returned back to Italy, with Trentino BetClic reigning supreme. The north Italian outfit defeated Polish side Skra Belchatow 3-0 (26-24, 25-18, 25-19) in the final.

Serbia, Germany and Brazil shared the four Junior and Youth Volleyball World Championships. Brazil was victorious in the 2009 FIVB Men’s Junior World Volley-ball Championship in Pune, India, whilst the Brazilian girls took home the 2009 FIVB Girl’s Youth World Volleyball Cham-pionship in Nakhonratchasima, Thailand. Serbia meanwhile claimed their first 2009 FIVB Boy’s Youth World Volleyball Championship in Jesolo, Italy, whilst Ger-many won the 2009 FIVB Women’s Junior World Volleyball Championship in Baja California, Mexico.

Trentino kept the FIVB World Club Championship title in Italy, winning the competition in Doha, Qatar in December

Jesolo - Bassano del Grappa, Italy (Boys’ Youth) and Nakhonratchasima, Thailand (Girls’ Youth).

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Volleyball

FIVB World Grand Prix champions Brazil and FIVB Women’s World Grand Cham-pions Italy have been pooled together in Rio de Janeiro for the first week of the 2010 edition of the WGP as the official pool composition for the 2010 edition of the women’s premier annual Volleyball event was confirmed by the FIVB World Grand Prix Council on No-vember 20.

The 2010 World Grand Prix will start on August 6, with the three preliminary rounds ending on August 22. The final round will follow directly afterwards in Ningbo, China from August 25–29.The pool composition, which is based on FIVB World Rankings, the results of the 2009 World Grand Prix and special re-

quests from organisers, was decided by the World Grand Prix Council after also taking into consideration feedback from

WOMEN

2010 fiVB World Grand Prix Pool composition confirmed

the teams following the 2009 edition. The 18th edition of the FIVB World Grand Prix will be the last FIVB event for women ahead of the 2010 Wom-en’s World Championship in Japan, where all World Grand Prix teams fea-ture. The 12 teams to compete in the 2010 World Grand Prix were confirmed in October after the European Champi-onship semi-finalists qualified. The top four - Poland, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands – at the European Championship qualified for the 2010 WGP and joined defending champions

Brazil, China, Dominican Republic, Japan, Korea, Poland, Puerto Rico, Thailand and the United States.

The Netherlands will be hoping to improve on their fourth place finish last year when they start the 2010 edition in Chengdu, China

Pool a - Sao Paulo, Brazil

Brazil

italy

Japan

Korea

Pool D - chinese taipei

thailand

italy

uSa

Puerto Rico

Pool B - Gdynia, Poland

Poland

Germany

uSa

Dominican Republic

Pool e - Macau

china

Brazil

netherlands

Dominican Republic

Pool c - chengdu, china

china

netherlands

thailand

Puerto Rico

Pool f - Okayama, Japan

Japan

Poland

Germany

Korea

Week 1 | august 6-8 Week 2 | august 13-15

Pool G - Hong Kong

china

uSa

Germany

thailand

final Round - china, ningbo

china

and the top five ranked teams after the Preliminary Rounds will qualify for the Final Round

Pool H - Mokpo, Korea

Korea

Brazil

Poland

Puerto Rico

Pool i - tokyo, Japan

Japan

italy

netherlands

Dominican Republic

Week 3 | august 20-22 Week 4 | august 25-29

2009 PodiumsThe year 2009 saw a host of tournaments in the world of Volleyball. There was the highly successful FIVB World Grand Cham-pions Cup, the FIVB World League and FIVB World Grand Prix as well as the FIVB Junior and Youth World Championships.

Men’s podiums

fiVB World league Belgrade, Serbia, July 22-26

1. Brazil

2. Serbia

3. Russia

fiVB Women’s Junior World championship Baja california, Mexico, July 16-25

1. Germany

2. Dominican Republic

3. Brazil

fiVB Girl’s Youth World championship nakhonratchasima, thailand, July 3-12

1. Brazil

2. Serbia

3. Russia

fiVB World Grand Prix tokyo, Japan, July 31-august 23

1. Brazil

2. Russia

3. Germany

Women’s podiums

fiVB Men’s club World Volleyball championship Doha, Qatar, november 3-8

1. Trentino BetClic (ITA)

2. PGE Skra Belchatow (POL)

3. Zenit Kazan (RUS)

fiVB Boy’s Youth World championship Jesolo/Bassano del Grappa, italy, august 28-Sep 6

1. Serbia

2. Islamic Republic of Iran

3. Argentina

fiVB Men’s Grand champions cup Osaka, nagoya, november 18-23

1. Brazil

2. Cuba

3. Japan

fiVB Men’s Junior World championshipPune, india, July 31-august 9

1. Brazil

2. Cuba

3. Argentina

fiVB Women’s Grand champions cup tokyo/fukuoka, Japan, november 10-15

1. Italy

2. Brazil

3. Dominican Republic

Brazil’s Shelda Bede picked up the Most Inspirational and Best Sportswoman award

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American had won the honour in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

In addition to finishing second in the blocking vot-ing, Dalhausser was hon-oured as the SWATCH FIVB World Tour’s top offensive player along with being the best setter and hitter. It was Dalhausser’s first-time topping the setting list, as well as the third time he has been given a hitting honour and sec-ond time he’s been given

Beach Volleyball

Combined with a gold medal win in Rome during the inaugural SWATCH FIVB World Tour event in the Italian capital, Brink and Reckermann finished the season by winning four out of six title matches with eight podium place-ments, nine “final four” finishes and $274,200 in earnings. The team’s ac-complishments were the best-ever by a German team, both men’s and wom-en’s, in the 23-season history of the in-ternational circuit.

Brazilian team Alison and Harley fini-shed second on the SWATCH FIVB World Tour with two gold medals in Shanghai, China and Myslowice, Poland during the build-up in May for the world champion-ships. Rounding out the top three were Pablo Herrera and Adrian Gavira from Spain, with Dutchmen Reinder Nummer-dor and Richard Schuil finishing the sea-son on a high with three-straight titles in Finland, the Netherlands and China to claim fourth place in the rankings.

At the end of the season, Harley, Schuil and Juliana captured the top honours as the SWATCH most outstanding players for the 2009 season. Harley and Schuil tied for the men’s MOP award as each were honored three times during the season as an event’s top player. Juliana captured four MOP event honours.

Other 2009 SWATCH FIVB World Tour award winners were Phil Dalhausser of the United States, Igor Kolodinsky of Russia, Reckermann, Nummerdor, Alison Cerutti of Brazil, Ruslans Sorok-ins of Latvia and Rivo Vesik of Estonia. Reckermann ended Dalhausser’s three year streak as the FIVB’s top blocker. The

Jen Kessy and April Ross were victorious at the SWATCH FIVB Women’s World Championship in Stavanger, Norway

MEN & WOMEN

World championships highlight Beach Volley-ball season (continued from page 1)

Brink and Reckermann won the men’s “Tour Championship” and also picked up the World Championship title in Stavanger, Norway

Brazil’s Shelda Bede picked up the Most Inspirational and Best Sportswoman award in 2009

an offensive player award. Kolodinsky was the SWATCH top server for the third-straight season as the Russian’s top 2009 serve was recorded at 113.7 km/h in Moscow.

Nummerdor was named the top defend-er, Cerutti was picked as most improved, Vesik chosen as the top sportsman and Sorokins was honoured as the rookie-of-the-year. Furthermore, Sorokins and Aleksandrs Samoilovs won Latvia’s first SWATCH FIVB World Tour medal by plac-ing second at the event in Kristiansand, Norway.

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Beach Volleyball

International Beach Volleyball players will be further rewarded for their out-standing commitment to the SWATCH FIVB World Tour following a decision by the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Executive Committee to increase Bonus Pool payments, rewarding ath-letes` participation in SWATCH FIVB World Tour events.The decision, made at the last FIVB Ex-ecutive Committee meeting held on November 25 in Tokyo, Japan, affects, not only the 2010 season but will also be applied retroactively to the 2009 season. “Players who participate in more events, supporting growth in the sport and

properties should be rewarded through a scale of increased benefits,” stated FIVB Executive Vice President and Beach Volley-ball Commission President Dr. Ary Graça.Following a successful 2009 SWATCH FIVB World Tour season, the FIVB Execu-tive Committee decided to implement a new calculation for Bonus Pool payments as part of a fidelity program, as per the following:An athlete who missed only three or four tournaments during a season receives a Bonus Pool payment of 110%, an athlete who missed only one or two tournaments - 120% and 130% if an athlete participat-ed in all tournaments.The Bonus Pool is additional prize mon-

After the disappointment of missing the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games due to a knee injury, Juliana Felisberta Silva of Brazil completed her successful return to the international Beach Volleyball scene by being honored as most outstanding women’s player on the 2009 SWATCH FIVB World Tour.

In the men’s awards, Brazilian Harley Marques and Dutchman Richard Schuil were the top players of the tour, both earning four of the Most Outstanding Player Awards across the season.

The results of the voting for the top com-petitors on the 2009 SWATCH FIVB World Tour by SWATCH representatives, players, coaches, referees and officials on the in-ternational Beach Volleyball circuit were announced on November 21. Juliana and her partner Larissa Franca were the top 2009 honourees as the pair captured their fourth “tour” team championship in the last five seasons.

Women’s Post-Season awards

Most improved Player1. Marleen Van Iersel (NED)2. Becchara Palmer (AUS)3. Barbara Hansel (AUT) 3. Nadine Zumkehr (SUI)Also receiving votes - Maria Antonelli (BRA), Bibiana Can-delas (MEX), Sanne Keizer (NED), Jen Kessy (USA), Giulia Momoli (ITA), Liesbeth Mou-ha (BEL), April Ross (USA), Ana Scarlett (NZL), Stefanie Schwaiger (AUT).

Most inspirational Player1. Shelda Bede (BRA)2. Laura Ludwig (GER)3. Maria Antonelli (BRA)Also receiving votes - Vassiliki Arvaniti (GRE), Ana Paula Connelly (BRA), Larissa Franca (BRA), Jen Kessy (USA), Sara Mon-tagnolli (AUT), Doris Schwaiger (AUT), In-grid Torlen (NOR), Elaine Youngs (USA).

Sportswoman of the Year1. Shelda Bede (BRA)2. Juliana Felisberta Silva (BRA)3. Jen Kessy (USA)Also receiving votes - Talita Antunes (BRA), Susan Blundell (NZL), Larissa Fran-ca (BRA), Nila Ann Hakedal (NOR), Laura Ludwig (GER), Sara Montagnolli (AUT), April Ross (USA), Ingrid Torlen (NOR), Tyra Turner (USA), Xi Zhang (CHN).

Men’s Post-Season awards

Most improved Player1. Alison Cerutti (BRA)2. Julius Brink (GER)3. Adrian Gavira (ESP)Also Receiving Votes - Jefferson Bella-

MEN & WOMEN

Juliana, Harley and Schuil top 2009 SWatcH fiVB World tour award Winners

Richard Schuil from the Netherlands finished fourth on the tour with partner Reinder Nummerdor but won three most outstanding awards

new Beach Volleyball Bonus Pool calculation further rewards player participation

Rivo Vesik from Estonia was named Sportsman of the Year for the 2009 SWATCH FIVB World Tour

ey allocated by the FIVB to encourage the participation in the tournament of the world’s best Beach Volleyball athletes as well as teams from new countries.“The FIVB strongly believes that this program will serve to raise athletes` motivation, and consequently their professional performance” said the FIVB Executive Vice President and Secretary of the Beach Volleyball Commission, Mr. Vicente Araujo. “The rules this year have been tightened in order encourage athletes taking part in as many open events as possible. This policy will be also adopted for the 2010 and onwards.”

guarda (SUI), Grzegorz Fijalek (POL), Al-exander Horst (AUT), Inocencio Lario (ESP), Joao Maciel (BRA), Paolo Nicolai (ITA), Serguei Prokopiev (RUS), Mariusz Prudel (POL), Aleksandrs Samoilovs (LAT), Bruno Oscar Schmidt (BRA).

Most inspirational Player1. Harley Marques (BRA)2. Phil Dalhausser (USA)3. Jonas Reckermann (GER)Also Receiving Votes - Marcio Araujo (BRA), Julius Brink (GER), Kristjan Kais (EST), Jason Lochhead (NZL), Emanuel Rego (BRA), Richard Schuil (NED), Linyin Xi (CHN).

Sportsman of the Year1. Rivo Vesik (EST)2. Richard Schuil (NED)3. Jonas Reckermann (GER)Also Receiving Votes - Phil Dalhausser (USA), Adrian Gavira (ESP), Sascha Hey-er (SUI), Casey Jennings (USA), Kristjan Kais (EST), Reinder Nummerdor (NED), Emanuel Rego (BRA), Linyin Xi (CHN).

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The extensive FIVB Development pro-gramme continued on December 9 with the completion of the IV FIVB Internation-al Beach Volleyball clinic at the NORCECA Development Centre in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

The two day course, which saw NORCECA President and FIVB 1st Executive Vice President Mr. Cristobal Marte Hoffiz wel-come all the participants, was led by FIVB Instructors Mr. Christopher St. John Smith (FIVB Beach Volleyball Council member and four-time FIVB World Tour champion) and Mrs. Alisson Lamberson Wood, both from USA.

A total of 32 athletes and coaches from 16 different countries participated includ-ing St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Bermuda, Belize, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Haiti, Martinique, Sri Lanka, Trinidad & Tobago and the Dominican Republic.

Technical & Development

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fiVB international Beach Volleyball clinic held in Dominican Republic

coaches participate in a level ii course in chennai

Olympic Volleyball Beijing 2008 technical evaluation latest educational toolA new Technical Evaluation DVD from the Beijing Olympics Volleyball Tourna-ment in 2008 was distributed to all na-tional federations for further education in the sport on December 15.

The FIVB Development Centre in Chen-nai, India finished the last course on of-fer in 2009 on November 28 with a level II coaches course. The course attracted 22 coaches, from India, Sri Lanka and Bang-ladesh.

Course participants with the FIVB instructors and officials from the Indian Volleyball Federation

The FIVB Olympic Volleyball Beijing 2008 Technical Evaluation DVD is a new educational resource for all coaches and players

The Olympic Volleyball Beijing 2008 DVD provides a vast range of data for both the men’s and women’s game, and includes all scores and sets, as well as all major statistics. Additionally, it also includes

information on every player that took part.The DVD has been produced for edu-cational purposes for the 220 FIVB affiliated national federations, and all players, coaches and referees alike are encouraged to use it.If you would like additional copies, please email:technical.develop ment@fivb.org

An attentive class listens to FIVB Instructor Christopher St. John Smith

fiVB technical courses and Seminars calendar - february 2010

COuNTRY TYPeDATeS

DAYSFrom To

Egypt Coaches Course Level II 12.02.10 20.02.10 13

Egypt Coaches Course Level I 12.02.10 19.02.10 12

fiVB Volleyball cooperation Programme calendar - february 2010

COuNTRY TYPeDATeS

DAYSFrom To

Djibouti VCP Young Players 19.02.10 23.02.10 5

Niger Beach grass roots 22.02.10 26.02.10 5

FIVB instructors, Mr. Athanasios Papageor-giu from Greece and India’s Mr. Ramano Rao, who is also serving as the Director for the Development Centre, ran the course. The overall assessment revealed that the participants were satisfied with the knowledge gained during the 13 day

course. “It´s been fantastic course, and I can use everything I have learned in my home country”, stated Mr. Mahbub from Bangladesh who is a Volleyball coach in a local school in Dhaka. The Development Centre in Chennai is mainly serving the Central Asia Region.

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QuickSetsBotswana clubs win both genders at african Zone 6 club championship

The weeklong African Zone 6 Club Championship ended in disappoint-ment for the South African teams when they went down in the final to Botswana’s Kutlwano men and women’s teams at the Durban Uni-versity of Technology’s Fred Crookes Sport Centre on December 9.Women’s category favourites, Cigma from Pretoria were narrowly edged out by Kutlwano 3-1 (15-25, 25-23, 25-21, 28-26), while the defending champions Tongaat’s Liberte lost by the same margin (25-22, 25-23, 22-25, 25-21) to the Kutlwano men’s team. The Botswana teams will fly the SADC region flag at the 2010 Af-rican Club Championship in March this year.

first aVc Secretary General meeting held in Beijing

The inaugural AVC Secretary General meeting was held on November 29 in Beijing, China with 22 national federations participating and FIVB President Jizhong Wei in attendance. President Wei opened the meeting while AVC President Dr. Saleh Bin Nasser said the aim of the event was to raise the level of Asian Volleyball and Beach Volleyball as quickly as possible so as to narrow the gap with the world’s elite, to implement Mass Volley strategies earnestly and to improve the organization of AVC events.The AVC President stressed that with the FIVB’s new philosophy of giving increased responsibility to confed-

DATeS eVeNT COuNTRY ORG. M/W

2010 Global calendar - competitions and events - Volleyball & Beach Volleyball

Jan 14-18 CAZOVA Boy’s Youth Championship Curacao, Netherlands Antilles

NORCECA M

Jan 28- Feb 1 CAZOVA Boy’s Youth Championship U.S. Virgin Islands NORCECA F

March 1-15 Girl’s Youth Olympic Games African qualifications Egypt CAVB W

March 3-April 30 Men’s African Club Championship TBD CAVB M

March 3-April 30 Women’s African Club Championship TBD CAVB W

March 15-31 Boy’s Youth Olympic Games African qualifications South Africa CAVB M

March 19-30 IX Odesur Games Colombia MULTI M/W

March 20-21 CeV Women’s european Cup Final TBD CEV W

March 20-21 CeV Women’s Challenge Cup Final TBD CEV W

March 25-29 eCVA Girl’s Youth Championship St. Vincent and the Grenadines

NORCECA W

March 27-28 CeV Men’s european Cup Final TBD CEV M

March 27-28 CeV Men’s Challenge Cup Final TBD CEV M

erations and federations, being put into practice, the AVC must seize the golden opportunity to assume more owner-ship and work harder to take the sport of Volleyball in Asia to a higher plateau.President Wei noted that “the key to the FIVB’s new orientation is to give more responsibility and necessary financial support to Confederations and national federations. We must pay more atten-tion to Confederations and we are not afraid to see stronger Confederations. The FIVB this year received a good finan-cial report. The money in the FIVB must be used to develop Volleyball be shared for the benefit of Confederations and national federations. The allocations to Confederations has doubled this year and next year the FIVB will increase fur-ther this kind of allocation.”

ceV and caVB join forces to further promote Volleyball

CEV President André Meyer, together with the members of the CEV Executive Committee, was pleased to welcome a delegation of high profile members from the African Volleyball Confed-eration (CAVB), including President Dr. Amr Elwani, Vice President Mr. Majore Louis Timba and Technical Director Mrs. Howyda Mondy on December 4 in Lux-embourg.The European and African Volleyball Confederations met at the CEV premis-es with the aim to exchange views

about topical issues in Volleyball, as well as join forces for the further pro-motion of Volleyball across the African continent. All CEV Executive Committee mem-bers - Vice-Presidents Philip Berben and Renato Arena; Aleksandar Boricic, Banu Can Schürmann, Jan Hronek and Riet Ooms Van Den Berg – were in at-tendance.

Kenya secure Japanese coach

Kenya received a major boost ahead of the FIVB 2010 Women’s World Cham-pionship in Japan later this year, secur-ing the service of experienced Japa-nese coach Hidehiro Irisawa, who will take charge of Kenya’s preparations and potential qualification for the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.Hidehiro, seconded to Kenya through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), is contracted for one year and depending on his perform-ance in Singapore, he could poten-tially be allowed to head the coun-try’s senior women’s team to the FIVB World Championship in Japan where Kenya are grouped with Brazil, Italy, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico and the Czech Republic in Pool B.

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GeRflORtaRafleXexclusive for all FIVB Competitions incl. OG 2012

Taraflex Sport M Plus (7 mm thickness colour Teal 6431 and Coral 6146) over wood sub floors or synthetic sub floors

Taraflex Sport Performance Plus (9 mm thickness same colours as above) over concrete sub floors

MOnDOMONDOFLeX Blue Laguna H23 + Rose Flamingo H41

fiVB RecOMMenDeD SYntHetic SPORtS flOORS

GeRflORtaRafleXTARAFLeX Sport M Plus(7 mm thickness colour Teal 6431and Coral 6146)

MOnDOMONDOSPORT HP-e PVC indoor floor Blue Laguna H23 + Rose Flamingo H41

DeScOlPuLASTIC elite, Pro and Classic¨

RePHOuSeDeCOFLeXTM universal

national federations are requested to select material from the list of the fiVB approved sports material