Credit: Lance Agcaoili and spin.ph
Bangkok, Thailand, February 11, 2021 – The Philippine National Volleyball Federation Inc (PNVF) is setting a lofty goal of bagging gold in the next two editions of the Southeast Asian Games and a place in the top eight in Asia, spin.ph reported recently.
“If we cannot get the gold in Vietnam (2021), we target the next SEA Games in Cambodia (2023),” said PNVF President Ramon Suzara during the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) Forum on Tuesday, February 9.
Suzara said the Philippine teams cannot stay idle.
“Hopefully, we’ll do our best in the Vietnam SEA Games. We are not alone either as Vietnam and Thailand are also stuck because of COVID-19. I think it will be a balanced competition,” said Suzara.
“But 2023 Cambodia SEA Games will be my very good target for gold for the men’s and women’s and bring back the Philippines to the top 8 in Asian Senior Championships,” he added.
PNVF is also looking to join several Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) tournaments this year such as Asian Men’s and Women’s Club Volleyball Championships to be held in Thailand in April, Asian Senior Women’s Championship from August 29 to September 5 in China and Asian Senior Men’s Championship set to take place in Japan between September 12 and 19.
PNVF had been set to form a seven-man national team committee in its first board meeting on Wednesday.
Suzara, who sits as co-chairman of the committee, wants each national pool to have 25 members.
“I’d like to have a pool that we can use and we can change anytime,” he said.
The newly-formed federation is also considering the hiring of Brazilian coaches to leading the national team program for the next two years.
“We have to open our doors to foreign coaches…. We will learn a lot as we learned a lot from Japanese and Chinese. We are likely to learn from South American and European coaches in the future,” Suzara said.
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