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2009 CAVB Sports Organizing Commission and
Beach volleyball meeting
Proposals of the African League and the new formula of African
competitions
Cairo, Egypt, December 18, 2009- The African Volleyball
Confederation (CAVB) Sports Organizing committee put many
fruitful proposals in front of the CAVB executive committee to
start a new era of the African championships starting from 2010
according to the decisions that had been adopted during the 2009
CAVB Congress in Algeria last September.
One of the most important items discussed in the meeting was
putting the new formula of the qualification for the African
Nations Championship at the senior, junior or youth level that
aims mainly at increasing the number of participating teams
through the zonal and regional tournaments.
The committee decided to divide the 53 countries into 8 sectors
according to the geographical location to decrease the cost of
traveling where the champion of each sector qualify to the
finals of the competition except sector I than includes 10
countries which qualify the champions and the vice- champions to
the finals. With the 9 qualified teams, the finals will include
the organizers of the finals, the defending champions and the
top African ranked teams in the later FIVB ranking to constitute
16 teams in the final. Here is the constitution of the sectors
South Sector I (10 countries): Zambia- Malawi- Zimbabwe-
Mozambique- Lesotho- Botswana- Swaziland- Namibia- Madagascar-
South Africa
East Sector II (8 counties): Comoros- Seychelles- Rwanda-
Burundi- Uganda- Tanzania- Mauritius- Kenya.
West Sector III (6 countries): Togo- Benin- Ghana- Burkina Faso-
Cote d’Ivoire- Nigeria
North Sector IV (6 counties): Libya- Sudan- Chad- Mali- Niger-
Tunisia
Far East Sector V (6 countries): Liberia- Sierra Leone- Guinea
Conakry- Guinea Bissau- Gambia- Cameroon
Far North Sector VI (5 counties): Mauritania- Senegal- Cape
Verde- Morocco- Algeria
Far East Sector VII (5 countries): Somalia- Ethiopia- Djibouti-
Eritrea- Egypt
Central Sector VIII (7 countries): Center Africa- RD Congo-
Congo- Gabon- Equatorial Guinea- Sao Tome- Angola.
The meeting will also discussed the new system proposed by the
CAVB President Dr. Amr Elwani to establish the African League
for the African National teams in a home and away system. The
competition comprises 8 National teams 6 of them will be
selected according to the FIVB ranking and 2 wild cards decided
by CAVB.
In the continental round of this competition the 8 teams will be
divided into 2 pools of 4 playing in a double round robin format
in a home and away basis. Two matches will be played each
weekend. The top two teams in each pool qualify to the final
round which will be organized by one of the qualified teams.
The meeting presented also the new competition under the name
Baba Sy who is one of the African volleyball Legends still doing
a lot for the continental and World volleyball. The competition
will be mainly a preparation for the National teams that qualify
to the FIVB competition.
On the beach volleyball side the meeting discussed the
implementation of the beach volleyball agenda starting from June
2010 as well as the qualification system to the 2012 London
Olympic Games through a presentation done by Gershon Rorich.
The meeting was attended by the CAVB president Dr. Amr Elwani,
CAVB Vice President Tubby Reddy, SOC president Camilo Antao, and
the other members Mounir Benslimane, Morakinyo Ebenezer, Jacob
Owiti, Deva Moodliar, Ayad El Mousraty |
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