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Volleyball World Championship: |
USA and Iran, One team in
Volleyball Peace Philosophy
 Nagano,
Japan, November 23-: Volleyball showed many expressions of peace
during the 2006 FIVB World Championships in Japan as the FIVB
President Dr. Ruben Acosta insists to involve our beloved sport
in the World community and to make the sport as a peace message
all over the world. As Dr. Acosta attended the Peace Ceremony in
Hiroshima to commemorate the victims of the Atomic bomb on
Thursday, there was another peace ceremony in Nagano but with a
different view.
USA and Iran teams insisted to have a photo together before and
after their match of preliminary pool C in Nagano to show the
world that volleyball collected the two countries under one flag
which is the FIVB Flag of peace in spite of all what is going
now in the political field around the nuclear activity in Iran.
Although the match was very critical to USA team to qualify to
the second round, but the friendly spirit of the two teams made
a fantastic situation to show the non- violent nature of the
sport when the players and technical staff of both teams had one
photo together before and after the match.
Both coaches of the teams declared their opinion regarding the
role of the sport to decrease the violence all over the world.
“We came here to meet and play volleyball to show the world that
we are one body and we can create friendship between all the
youth all over the World through the sport,” Said USA Head Coach
Hugh McCutcheon. “We sent a message through this match that we
have not to think of politics as we are in the sports field.” He
added.
Iran Head coach Milorad Kjiac was happy to see these friendly
sensations from all the players and all the technical staff.
“Both teams were interested to have a collective photo together
before and after the match,” Kjiac said after the historic
match. We are happy to see that role of volleyball which unifies
the world whatever the religion, the race or the Nationality.
The Iranian press was impressed with the friendly sensation and
the accompanying press officer Rahim Zadah was interested to
conduct the photo to all his countries media. “We are coming
here to play volleyball not to think of politics and so we are
happy to see this friendly environment which was created by
volleyball under Dr. Ruben Acosta’s Presidency.” The press
officer said.
Photo Caption
USA and Iran teams have a collective
photo together before their match in Nagano
By Tarek ALADWAR from Japan
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