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Successful beach
Volleyball Clinic in Cairo organized by CAVB
 Cairo,
Egypt, April 12, 2007-: It is actually a big success
that Africa started in the sound way the future of beach
volleyball through the highly successful beach
volleyball clinic hosted in Heliopolis Sherouq Club in
Cairo, Egypt organized by the African Volleyball
Confederation (CAVB) under supervision of the
International Volleyball Federation (FIVB). The clinic
showed a condensed participation of 60 participants from
20 African countries including Players, coaches,
officials and National Federations’ Representatives.
The clinic was transmitted by two TV Channels, the
Egyptian Channel 1 and the Nile Sports Channel (NSC) as
well as many newspapers that expressed the importance of
this clinic to implement the continental beach
volleyball activity as decided by CAVB Board of
Administration in 2006.
The clinic included a theoretical part instructed by the
FIVB expert Mr. Jeff Brehaut from England who had daily
lectures on the rules of the beach and the history of
the sport since its start till it reached to the top in
the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens when it leads all the
sports in the number of TV Viewers.
The practical part was conducted by the FIVB instructor
Richard Amon from USA who had practical lectures on a
beach volleyball court.
The opening ceremony was attended by CAVB President Dr.
Amr Elwani who expressed his happiness to start the
continental activity of the sport with this clinic which
will pave the way to start the African tours in many
African countries before establishing the continental
ranking in 2007. |
CAVB Starts the
First Ever Beach Volleyball Clinic in Cairo
 Cairo,
Egypt, April 10, 2007-: The first ever Beach volleyball
clinic organized by African volleyball confederation
CAVB
will start on Wednesday in Heliopolis Sherouq club in
Cairo, Egypt on Wednesday in presence of big number of
participants including coaches, Organizers and National
Federations officials in the actual implementation of
the continental activity of the sport which will feature
the first ever Beach volleyball circuits in 2007,
followed by establishing beach volleyball
ranking in Africa.The course will by directed by the
FIVB expert Mr. Jeff Brehaut from England and instructed
by the FIVB instructor Richard Emon from USA in presence
of Egyptian Beach Volleyball head coach Mr. Mamdouh
Hassan as CAVB technical advisor and Mr. Sherif
Elshemerly as the course assistant.
The course will involve both technical and organization
aspects to help the national federations to enhance
their local
tours in a professional way and to have the opportunity
to organize the continental circuits and also to help
the new coaches to get more information about the skills
of the sport. |
Niger launch the first local Beach volleyball
Activity
Niamey, Niger, February 1-: Niger Volleyball federation
(FENIVOLLEY) launched the first Beach Volleyball
activity in the country through the organization of the
first Beach Volleyball competition at Hippodrome
international in the capital Niamey which show the
participation of all the eight zones of the country.
This competition comes a year after the Beach volleyball
course held in March 2005. The federation arranged
Niamey beach to be similar to Copacabana Beach in Brazil
with six courts.
In Men’s competition 9 teams participated where AS.
Zigui achieved the cup claiming 2-1 victory over Spoung.
Jica Niamey won the Women’s competition achieving 2-0
victory over Etoiles of Niamey.
In the margin of the competition Niger Volleyball
arranged a big festival of volleyball in schools with
participation of 465 young school pupils (333 boys and
132 girls). Many games were held between those pupils in
the form of one against one, two vs. two and three vs.
three. At the end of this festival 14 level II coaches
received their certificates after they passed the course
in June 2005.
This tournament comes as one of the achievements of the
newly elected Board of FENIVOLLEY in August 2005 for a
new mandate of four years under the presidency of
Sidiyane Amada |
Beach
Volleyball Course in Senegal
The active Senegal development centre will host again a
new course, this time beach Volleyball course 12-16 June
in the Development Centre in Dakar, Senegal under
supervision of FIVB.
Twenty participants will attend the course instructed by
the FIVB instructor, Mr. Max Meier. The course will
include items for the players and others for the
technicians.
This is the second course in Senegal after the Coaches
course held last month.
The president of Senegal Development Centre Mr. Baba Sy
stated that he is happy to see this course running to
help Africa to go through this branch of volleyball and
to develop this sport in the continent. |
BEACH VOLLEYBALL TOUR « FIVB Challenge » IN MOROCCO
In a new push for African Beach Volleyball towards World
level, Moroccan Volleyball Federation will organize a
Beach Volleyball Tournament « FIVB Challenge » from 23
to 25 July 2004 in Casablanca – Morocco.
The Organizers put a prize money of 10 000 US Dollars
for the competition which is considered the second
biggest tour in the continent after that held in Cape
Town, South Africa last March.
CAVB asked the National Federations for a big
participation to widespread this sport in many African
countries. The registration deadline is 9th July 2004. |
BEACH VOLLEYBALL COARSE IN BENIN
Benin will host An International Beach Volleyball Coarse
under supervision of FIVB in SAP Programme. The coarse
will be held in Cotonou 10-17 October 2003 and the
Portuguese Avelino Azevedo will be the Instructor. This
Coarse will be the actual start of the activity of this
volleyball category in Benin. Beach volleyball is
expected to emerge rapidly in Benin in the comming few
years as the members of the Benin National Volleyball
Federation put their interest to develop this sport.News
by Ali S. Yaro, President of the Press Commission, Togo
Volleyball Federation |
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