Successful Coaches course in Egypt with support of FIVB and Olympic Solidarity

Cairo, Egypt, February 2-: The Egyptian Volleyball Federation FEVB organized one of the most successful coaches courses in Africa in the last few years 15-28 January 2007 under support of the World Volleyball Governing body FIVB and the Olympic solidarity.
The course showed participation of 59 coaches out of them 36 in coaches’ level I and 23 in level II representing four countries Egypt, Croatia, Saudi Arabia and Palestine. Many of the Egyptian board members and the Egyptian Olympic committee members attended the opening ceremony led by CAVB and FEVB President Dr. Amr Elwani.
The course was conducted by the FIVB instructor Mr. Jivko Jetchev (Bulgaria), who is also the FIVB Technical commission member for level II and Sherif El- Shemerly (Egypt) for level I. the Polish head coach of the Egyptian national team Grzegorez Rys and his assistant Ahmed Zakaria shared in the course with some lectures.
The course included theoretical and practical parts which were broadcasted by four different TV channels in Egypt and Middle East including the Egyptian Channel 2 and the Nile Sports channel NSC. Jivko Jetchev expressed his happiness and said that all the participants were very cooperative and passed the theoretical and practical exams.
“I’m happy to host this successful course for the second successive year with this big number of Participants,” Said the organizing committee president Mr. Hassan Ahmed who is also the vice president of FEVB. “We hope to see the coaches participating in this course helping the progress of volleyball in their countries after all the participants passed the course successfully. We want also to thank FIVB for its support to bring this course to a complete success as usual in Africa.” He added.

Photo Captions:
1. Dr. Elwani, Hassan Ahmed, Jivko Jetchev and Sherif El- Shemerly in the opening ceremony.
2. Collective photo of the participants.
3. Grzegorez and Shemerly in the theoretical part of the course.