Cignal HD Spikers’ Vanie Gandler and Daybreak Macandili-Catindig throughout a PVL Sport. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.web
MANILA, Philippines — Vanie Gandler and Daybreak Macandili-Catindig are bringing their Cignal connection to Alas Pilipinas after they lead a younger squad within the AVC Problem Cup from Might 22 to 29 at Rizal Memorial Coliseum.
Gandler, who has confirmed herself as a dependable outdoors spiker for Cignal within the PVL, will likely be making her Philippine girls’s volleyball workforce debut the place she’s going to workforce up along with her fellow professional gamers together with former Ateneo teammate Religion Nisperos and younger UAAP stars.
“I’m very excited and naturally very grateful that I’ve this chance with Alas Pilipinas, particularly alongside my ates and my idols,” Gandler instructed reporters throughout the monicker’s unveiling on Wednesday at TV5 Media Heart.
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“So I’m actually excited for the stuff that I’m going to be taught from them, and for the expertise I’m going to get as nicely and to be supporting the Philippines.”
The PVL rising star will likely be having her Cignal teammate and libero Catindig, who is about to share her worldwide expertise and information Gandler and her youthful teammates of their nationwide debut.
“I’m trying ahead to sharing the expertise I earned previously years [of representing the national team] with the younger gamers,” mentioned the embellished libero in Filipino.
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Catindig, who has been representing the nation on the worldwide stage since 2017, is honored to play with a monicker for the primary time.
“Mas stable na ngayon na mas mataas na ‘yung delight na could pinaglalaban na ‘yung workforce. It’s step one,” mentioned the HD Spikers’ defensive specialist.
Cignal libero Daybreak Macandili-Catindig within the 2024 PVL All-Filipino Convention. –PVL PHOTO
Gandler is happy to be a part of the brand new period of the ladies’s nationwide workforce, which will likely be known as Alas Pilipinas to any extent further.
“We’re hopeful as a result of you may see that we’re working in direction of one thing. Like slowly by way of the years that it’s gonna construct on from right here,” she mentioned.
The Cignal duo groups up with Denso Airybees and Creamline setter Jia De Guzman, Choco Mucho’s Sisi Rondina and Cherry Nunag, Eya Laure and Jennifer Nierva of Chery Tiggo, PLDT’s Dell Palomata, Akari’s Fifi Sharma and Religion Nisperos in addition to La Salle’s trio Angel Canino, Thea Gagate and Julia Coronel and Nationwide College’s Arah Panique.
It is going to be coach Jorge Souza De Brito’s ultimate main event with the Nationals, who open their Pool A marketing campaign in opposition to Australia on Thursday subsequent week, in opposition to India on Friday and Iran on Saturday.
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The workforce hopes to surpass its seventh-place end final 12 months and enhance the nation’s FIVB World rankings.
