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FIVB VOLLEYBALL EMPOWERMENT OFFERS SUPPORT AND OPPORTUNITY TO AFGHANISTAN’S NATIONAL VOLLEYBALL TEAMS

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Each Afghanistan males’s and girls’s groups profit from Volleyball Empowerment help to allow them to proceed to compete in worldwide competitions

  • Joint help between the FIVB, IOC and Nationwide Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, has helped the Afghanistan girls’s volleyball workforce to proceed to play in varied worldwide competitions
  • In keeping with the Afghanistan Volleyball Federation Secretary Normal Khushal Malikzai, the funding from FIVB has given the ladies’s workforce elevated confidence and hope
  • FIVB funding has additionally facilitated the continued enchancment of Afghanistan’s males’s nationwide workforce

Via mixed help from the FIVB, the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) and Nationwide Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the Afghanistan girls’s volleyball workforce have continued to play in numerous competitions on the worldwide stage, regardless of varied challenges.

FIVB VOLLEYBALL EMPOWERMENT OFFERS SUPPORT AND OPPORTUNITY TO AFGHANISTAN’S NATIONAL VOLLEYBALL TEAMS

Afghanistan girls’s volleyball workforce on the nineteenth Asian Video games held in Hangzhou, China in 2022. (Photograph credit: AVF)

The FIVB has invested CHF 89,000 in Afghanistan’s males’s and girls’s nationwide groups to facilitate their journey, allowances for gamers and coaches in addition to lodging to numerous worldwide tournaments, together with the Asian Video games, Islamic Solidarity Video games and Central Asian Volleyball Affiliation (CAVA) Problem Cup.

In keeping with the Afghanistan Volleyball Federation (AVF) Secretary Normal Khushal Malikzai, the funding from the FIVB has given the ladies’s workforce elevated hope and confidence.

“We’re the one girls’s nationwide workforce from Afghanistan taking part in worldwide competitions due to the help we’ve obtained from FIVB. The volleyball workforce additionally provides hope to different girls’s nationwide groups,” stated Malikzai.

“The FIVB has not solely allowed us to take part in volleyball tournaments but in addition facilitated our preparations, journey, allowances and lodging. This has actually boosted the morale of the workforce, and we’re without end indebted to the FIVB for his or her dedication and help,” he added.

Malikzai singled out the nineteenth Asian Video games held in Hangzhou, China in 2022 as a particular match for his or her girls’s workforce. Regardless of ending final within the girls’s volleyball competitors, the nice and cozy reception by the house crowd nonetheless lives within the recollections of the workforce.

“We misplaced all our matches however anytime we performed, the over 5,000 followers within the area rallied behind our workforce. They cheered us with each contact of the ball and made us consider that we had been winners by simply merely taking part within the competitors.

“The workforce obtained a variety of media protection and it was encouraging that they had been an enormous attraction for broadcasters…It was a particular match for us and all sportswomen in Afghanistan,” famous Malikzai.

Afghanistan’s males’s workforce are presently ranked 63rd on the FIVB World Rating. (Photograph credit: AVF)

Along with supporting the ladies’s nationwide workforce, the FIVB additionally supplies help to the boys’s nationwide workforce in Afghanistan, who’ve seen intensive enchancment of their play due to the Volleyball Empowerment programme. At the moment ranked 63rd on the FIVB  World Rating, they completed third within the 2023 CAVA Problem Cup and Malikzai says they will solely go up from there.

“We’ve got been taking part in worldwide competitions constantly and this has helped enhance our workforce. We hope to achieve the ultimate of this yr’s CAVA Problem Cup after ending third final yr.

“We’re additionally concentrating on to use for a long-term coach help challenge of 4 years to attain our goal of breaking into the highest 10-ranked groups in Asia within the subsequent two years,” stated Malikzai.

QUICK LINKS

AVC Web site: click on www.asianvolleyball.web

AVC Fb: click on www.Fb.com/AsianVolleyballConfederation

AVC Twitter: click on: www.twitter.com/AsianVolleyball

AVC Instagram: click on: https://www.instagram.com/avcvolley/?hl=en

Mikasa Instagram: click on: https://www.instagram.com/mikasasports_official

AVC Youtube: click on: Asian Volleyball Confederation

AVC WeChat: Asian Volleyball Confederation



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