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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras; July 27, 2022.- The V
Central American Championship will begin this
Thursday, July 28, at the Jorge Galeano
Gymnasium, in the Tegucigalpa Olympic Village,
with seven teams in search of the title obtained
by Costa Rica in the previous four editions.
The coaches anticipate a very competitive
tournament, since it is a prelude to the
absolute category and the technical and game
level is very high.
José Fontés, coach of Belize: “We have a few
different players than the ones we had in the
Under 21s (where they were runners-up); It is a
higher category competition and we lost one of
our best scorers, but if we are going to try to
make it a more fruitful competition. The
Afecavol competitions will be very equal, even
the level of the countries that were weaker
before have increased and that helps us to put
on a good show”
William Fernández: Coach of Guatemala: “We bring
the same under 21 group (they were champions)
and the goal is to give the maximum in each game,
play with joy and with the same courage that we
did in Belize. It must be a very level
tournament… the level will be for anyone, we
have come from a very long jump due to the
pandemic, where we did not have warm-ups or
tournaments, but the teams have also grown.”
Noé Fabián, coach of El Salvador: “This is a
very competitive tournament, everyone has raised
their level, including El Salvador, who has been
improving little by little. The champion of this
tournament will be the team that manages to keep
the level of play constant, because here a
stumble and you stay with a chance. The
importance is to resume all the tournaments of
minor categories is that they serve as training,
they are the base of the major National Teams,
and our objective is the Central American Games
and the Central American and Caribbean Games”.
Marvin Ulloa, coach of Honduras: "We want to
continue in the medal table, that is the
objective due to the trend that this group
brought from the other categories from the U18,
U20... we believe that this will end with
something good, besides that we have the team
complete, with players who come from the Under
21 in Belize (they were third)”.
Claudia Noguera, coach of Nicaragua: “We hope to
maintain the place obtained in the previous
tournament (third place), it is a young team,
with many players for the future, who we hope
will later be part of the Senior National Team.
Our goal here is to maintain the level of the
game, move up the rankings and showcase the
talent of the new faces of Nicaraguan volleyball.”
Andrés Carbajal, Costa Rica: “We come with
enthusiasm, joy, aware of the responsibility we
have to revalidate this title and reach the five-time
championship. We greatly respect the work of the
other teams and expect games of a high level and
demand. It is a group that has players who have
already experienced this type of events, there
is a mixture of experience and novice players.
The group has accepted and received them (the
new ones) well, we hope that there will be no
nerves or anxiety in competition, the group is
very united”.
Eliot Clarke, coach of Panama: “Our expectation
is that the team is young, they have talent, but
we want them to develop little by little, each
game will help them get to know each other and
give their best. It is a fairly young team, only
about two are from the category and the rest are
younger; We hope to continue working with this
team and keep it going for a long time.” |
