AVC COACHES COMMITTEE MEMBERS URGED TO WORK HARD

Bangkok, Thailand, March 8, 2016 – The AVC Coaches Committee Meeting was concluded on Tuesday at Dusit Princess Srinakarin Hotel in Bangkok, with new Committee Chairman Mr Park Ki-won encouraging all members to share their ideas and work hard in an effort of improving their working standard. 

Ahead of the meeting, FIVB and AVC Honorary Life President Mr Wei Jizhong and AVC Executive Vice President Mr Essa Hamzah jointly presided over the opening. AVC Secretary-General Mr Shanrit Wongprasert and AVC Headquarters General Manager Dr Rueangsak Siriphol were also in attendance as guests of honour.

Mr Wei Jizhong observed that most of the Coaches Committee members came from former national coaches including Mr G.E.Sridharan from India and Japanese Mr Gen Yawakita, and Ms Feng Kun, former China national player who was instrumental in lifting the team’s remarkable success to win the gold medal at the 2004 Olympics in Greece. All of them were from indoor volleyball, but none was from beach volleyball.

“As AVC badly wanted to focus more on beach volleyball, it, therefore, must be better if we can have some coaches from beach volleyball to work in the AVC Coaches Committee and FIVB as well. If possible, I would like the Committee to take care of not only indoor volleyball but also beach volleyball,” Mr Wei commented.

The Committee Chairman Park Ki-Won strongly suggested that all members devote themselves in learning and studying what has to be done if they have been nominated as Control Committee members for any AVC tournament.

“Members should be well-prepared to perform your duties as effectively as you can. To accomplish this task, you have to share your ideas to help improve working standard of the Coaches Committee’s activities and get familiar with the materials and working procedures required by AVC in 2016. You all must work much harder to improve our work in the Committee,” said Mr Park.

The key points discussed in the meeting also included report on the decisions of the 2015 AVC Board of Administration Meeting, reports of FIVB Coaches Commission in Lausanne, Switzerland early this year, reports on the AVC Technical Seminar held in 2015 and the 2016 activity plan.