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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, March 23, 2015 – The U23
Women’s National Teams of Japan and Dominican Republic trained
and played scrimmage games for one week in Santo Domingo in
preparation for the FIVB Women’s World Championship to be held
in Turkey from August 12 to 19.
The training sessions and the matches, all played to five sets
in order to give playing chances to the more number of players
possible, took place at the Dominican Air Force Gymnasium in San
Isidro, a suburban area of the Dominican capital.
The two teams and their coaches and officials were tendered a
farewell banquet offered by Major General Elvis Marcelino Feliz
Perez, Chief Commander of the Dominican Air Force, and his wife
at the Officials Club of the Air Base.
Attendees to the banquet included H.E. Takashi Fuchigami,
ambassador of Japan to the Dominican Republic, Luis Mejía
Oviedo, president of the Dominican Republic Olympic Committee,
Cristobal Marte Hoffiz, president of NORCECA Confederation, and
former Dominican player Milagros Cabral, who coordinated the
sport exchange.
The Dominican Republic team qualified to the age-group event as
winners of the 2014 U23 Pan American Cup held in Peru last year.
Cuba, the third placed ranked team of the event, also qualified
from NORCECA to the competition in Turkey.
Two teams from each of the five confederations of FIVB will
participate in the world championship plus the host country and
the non-qualified best placed U23 team in the FIVB rankings.
The two representatives from the Asian Volleyball Confederation
will emerge from the Asian Championship to be held later this
year.
The qualified teams are the following:
CSV: Brazil and Colombia
NORCECA: Dominican Republic and Cuba
CAVB: Egypt and Tunisia
CEV: Bulgaria and Italy
AVC: TBD
Host: Turkey
Wild Card: TBD |
