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All five Continental Confederations present future plans
CAGLIARI, Italy, November 1, 2014 – The presidents of the five
continental confederations grouped under the FIVB presented
their future plans to the 210 national federations attending the
34th World Congress while expressing their optimism for the
eventual development of the sport in their respective regions.
In the closing session of the biennial general assembly, Dr.
Rafael Lloreda (South America), Dr. Amr Elwani (Africa), Dr.
Saleh Bin Nasser (Asia), Mr. Andre Meyer (Europe) and Mr.
Cristobal Marte Hoffiz (Norceca), all explained their projects
at short, medium and long term and got a positive reaction from
the representatives of the national federations.
Finally, Marte Hoffiz closed the presentation of reports with
full details of the structure of NORCECA Confederation and the
way it operates internally and externally, keeping constant
communication with all its affiliates.
Marte Hoffiz presented calendars of volleyball and beach
volleyball covering the period of 2015-2018 and introduced to
the audience how they organized the qualification process
towards the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games offering open
opportunities to all the countries.
He gave special mention to the partnership with Molten and Sport
Court that has allowed NORCECA to distribute playing equipment
to all its members as well as playing surfaces to a group of
them as part of the plan to offer better conditions to practice
the sport.
He gave credit to all the leaders of the four zonal associations
within the continental confederation as well as the regional
development center located in the Dominican Republic.
At the end of his report he presented a video of the
participation of the Dominican Republic team in the FIVB Women’s
World Championship in Italy where they finished in the fifth
position and put them as an example of what can be achieved with
a effort and dedication.
Dr. Lloreda, who was the first to present the plans of South
America Confederation, made reference to the “WAVE” project
intended to generate news about the competition in spiral motion
utilizing the social media channels as well as the traditional
means of communication.
The plan is to integrate young students of journalism to the
different national federations as responsible to spread
volleyball and beach volleyball news from their countries and to
keep permanent contact with CSV.
Dr. Elwani commented on the Africa Dream Project based on a
common development plan putting emphasis on the national
federations in category I and II but also providing support to
the elite top African teams.
He called the attention to the need of giving more participation
to the women based o the principles of equity and inclusion as
well as the optimal use of the resources.
The project will be focused on players with ages between 8 and
14 years old who will go through a programme based on a
philosophy that has been named “Long Term Athlete’s Development”
aimed to create strong and competitive youth volleyball teams.
Dr. Bin Nasser said the first move of Asian Volleyball
Confederation will be to move the headquarters from Tokio, Japan
to Bangkok, Thailand and request from the five zonal
representatives to identify the needs of the national
federations I and II as well as their current situation of
volleyball in their region.
The plan includes to ensure the participation of more national
federations in beach volleyball as well as in the age-group
different categories of volleyball with the establishment of
Development Academies in the five zones with the support from
FIVB.
They also have plans to create development centers in all five
zones with a good use of the current FIVB Development Centers to
guarantee the sustainability of those programmes.
Meyer said the keys for Europe are participation and involvement
to go hand in hand with the concept of development FIVB has
brought to the table.
He said their programme aims toward the work with the young
generation of players with the increase in the number of
competitions they participate as well as the summer beach
volleyball festivals for the kids.
Meyer commented that social media and mobile applications have
greatly contributed to the expansion of the sport and volleyball
can’t elude that universal trend so popular among the young
generation of people.
Several National Federations received plaques of recognition for
celebrating the 25th and 50th anniversary
of being established and affiliated to FIVB.
The presidents of the National Federations of El Salvador and
Trinidad & Tobago from NORCECA and England from Europe, received
their awards for their 50th anniversary.
Those with 25 years were:
Algeria, Barbados, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape
Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of
Congo, Eritrea, Grenada, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Kuwait, Lesotho,
Malasya, Mali, Mauritania, Monaco, Niger, Niue Island, Papua New
Guine, Sierra Leone, St Kitts & Nevis, Thailand and Wales.
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