Tourism and Sports activities Minister Mr Sorawong Thienthong receives a bouquet of flowers from Kiattipong-led former nationwide staff gamers often known as “7 Legends of Volleyball”
Bangkok, Thailand, December 9, 2024 – Thailand’s preparation to host the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Girls’s World Championship has moved into prime gear after getting the inexperienced mild from the federal government to go forward with the proposal from Ministry of Tourism and Sports activities.
Tourism and Sports activities Minister Mr Sorawong Thienthong chaired the Monday’s assembly, attended by Thailand Volleyball Affiliation President Mr Somporn Chaibangyang, AVC Government Director and TVA Honorary Life President Mr Shanrit Wongprasert, Thailand girls’s nationwide volleyball staff head coach Mr Kiattipong Radchatagriengkai in addition to 5 star spiker from the “7 Legends of Volleyball” – Pleumjit Thinkaow, Wilavan Apinyapong, Onuma Sittirak, Malika Kanthong and Wanna Buakaew, at Workplace of the Minister.
Tourism and Sports activities Minister Mr Sorawong Thienthong
Mr Sorawong revealed that it’s an honour and nice satisfaction of Thailand that the Worldwide Volleyball Federation (FIVB) had chosen the nation to earn the solo internet hosting rights to the aforementioned World Championship, citing that Thailand has potential to host this topflight occasion because the nation has already proved as profitable hosts to many world-class tournaments, significantly Volleyball Nations League Finals final 12 months.
The Minister added that Thailand is uniquely positioned to benefit from having competitors venues, services and infrastructure in addition to board and lodging and succesful personnels. As well as, as a consequence of sturdy fan membership, volleyball additionally holds a spot within the hearts of Thai followers as one of many well-loved sports activities within the nation. This may be seen when a lot of passionate followers flocked into the packed venue to look at world-class competitions held in Thailand together with the VNL Finals and maintained excessive engagement.
TVA President Mr Somporn Chaibangyang speaks within the assembly
By way of internet hosting the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Girls’s World Championship, Minister Sorawong disclosed that the proposal aligned with the Cupboard’s tourism stimulus coverage by selling Thailand’s vacationer points of interest except for boosting confidence amongst overseas traders and internet hosting world-class sporting occasions within the nation.
“Thailand girls’s nationwide volleyball gamers are cherished by volleyball followers within the nation and world wide. To host this world-class competitors won’t solely give Thai volleyball lovers a once-in-lifetime probability to intently watch prime girls’s volleyball gamers from 32 groups on the planet play in Thailand, but in addition create good picture of Thailand to the world by dwell broadcast worldwide,” he mentioned.
The Minister can also be satisfied that the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Girls’s World Championship will assist promote Thailand’s vacationer points of interest and tradition globally, in addition to increase confidence amongst overseas guests and traders within the nation.
AVC Government Director and TVA Honorary Life President Mr Shanrit Wongprasert
“The World Championship is predicted to attract 1.3 million guests to Thailand, producing 8.5 billion baht in income for the nation, whereas we’ve got put aside the price range of 1.1 billion baht in organizing the championship,” he added.
The 2025 FIVB Volleyball Girls’s World Championship is scheduled to happen in Thailand from August 22 to September 7, 2025, with 32 certified groups from the world over vying for the world title. They comprise hosts Thailand, defending world champions Serbia, prime three from every of the 2023 Continental Championships – Japan, China and Vietnam (AVC), Brazil, Argentina and Colombia (CSV), Kenya, Egypt and Cameroon (CAVB), Turkey, Netherlands and Italy (CEV), Dominican Republic, the USA and Canada (NORCECA), and the remaining 15 groups from prime 15 as per FIVB World Rating but certified consisting of Poland, Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic, Puerto Rico, Ukraine, France, Bulgaria, Cuba, Sweden, Mexico, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain and Greece.
Groups can be divided into eight teams of 4 groups apiece, with the drawing of tons to be performed on December 17, 2024 at 15.00pm native time in Pavilion Conference Corridor at The Grand Fourwings Conference Resort Bangkok. Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra is prone to preside over the drawing ceremony on the invitation of the Minister.
The pool round-robin preliminaries can be held in 4 fundamental cities of 4 areas within the nation that includes Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand, Phuket in Southern Thailand, Nakhon Ratchasima in Northeastern Thailand and Bangkok in Central Thailand. Two swimming pools of eight groups in whole will compete in every host metropolis. After the preliminaries, prime two groups from every pool will advance to Spherical of final 16 groups in Bangkok, through which the Hua Mark Indoor Stadium would be the battleground for the final 16 groups, quarterfinals, semifinals and finals.
Representatives from Thailand volleyball fan membership current a bouquet of flowers to Tourism and Sports activities Minister Mr Sorawong Thienthong
Minister Sorawong mentioned that whereas internet hosting the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Girls’s World Championship, Thailand may also share the “Inexperienced Hearts Marketing campaign,” aimed to galvanise the general public to hitch collectively and present resolution makers that Thailand desires to see actual and speedy motion to deal with the local weather and nature disaster.
“The Inexperienced Hearts Marketing campaign will assist foster competencies in innovation, accountability in the direction of society and the setting, and a deep understanding of sustainable improvement. Thus, we’ll concentrate on environment friendly use of environmentally pleasant pure assets, profiting from Thailand sports activities associations to run a profitable pilot marketing campaign,” mentioned Mr Sorawong.
“Nevertheless, we’ve got to cancel our preliminary plans to host 2025 VNL and as an alternative concentrate on the staging of the FIVB Volleyball Girls’s World Championship. Each tournaments can be held nearly on the identical time, however the World Championship is extra vital. So, we’ve got to cancel internet hosting the VNL and preserve our concentrate on the World Championship. That is to make the World Championship the perfect preparation doable. Nevertheless, Thailand will launch a bid once more to host the 2026 VNL,” he concluded.
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