Bangkok, Thailand: Oman’s Dr Shihab Al Din al Riyami, FIVB international coach instructor, took part at the Euro-Asia Coaches Cooperation Project. The project is the national team development programmes for qualified coaches and coaches courses were the core topics that were discussed at the AVC Coaches Committee Meeting on Zoom recently.
Committee Chairman Park Ki Won from Korea chaired the meeting, with six members consisting of Mohamed Ahmed Al Thawadi from Bahrain (Secretary), GE Sridharan from India, Feng Kun from China, Yuichi Nakagaichi from Japan, Dr Shihab Al Din al Riyami from the Sultanate of Oman and Bader Abdulrahman Alkous (for Kuwait Development) in attendance.
“FIVB has a special fund to be able to help all national players in respective countries become good national teams and so, they can participate in every championship and international events. I’m so happy that all of you are participating in this very important meeting and I really do hope that in the future, because from you, all the technical and all the future technical aspects for competitions, referees and coaches, you will deliver this message to our prestigious athletes,” Subowo was quoted as saying.
“I’m so proud of our team, our country and hopefully, we can start from your coordination and your meeting. I strongly hope that in the near future, Asian countries will reach the international level we have aimed for. In this opportunity, I would like to ask you to be able to see your website in your country regarding team ranking, all national players in your respective countries in order that Asian athletes and all athletes across the world can see your team ranking and learn the achievement from them. Thank you for your participation and thanks everyone at AVC Headquarters to make this meeting happen. Have a nice and fruitful result for us,” she said in her speech.
In this occasion, Dr Shihab delivered a positive message to all. “We have to work as a team, teamwork not individual. We also need a unique coaches seminar with high hopes of upgrading and improving the coaches level. It’s about raising the level of our players by first improving the level of coaches. How can we train the athletes if we don’t have qualified coaches? We have to make a better future plan for coaching seminars and courses.”
After that, Shanrit kept the meeting updated on the Euro-Asia Coaches Cooperation Project, citing that either Phuket or Bangkok is well-prepared to organise a unique initiative between the two confederations.
“CEV wants to conduct a course to train the instructors for the Euro-Asia Coaches Cooperation Seminar maybe within this year because CEV badly needs to organise this in 2022. The AVC Headquarters had sent all relevant information to CEV to make a decision on the size of this course to train the instructors of Europe and Asia in Phuket or Bangkok. However, it came as a relief that from February 1, the Thailand’s Test and Go scheme has been rebooted for foreign visitors,” Shanrit said.
After that, Park informed the attendants of the updates from the FIVB Technical and Coaching Commission Meeting which focussed on their role in the future development of the sport which included coaches courses, national teams and changes of Olympic Qualification.
Continuity
Continuation is more important than ever as AVC President Subowo stressed that competitions can be postponed, but work plan should continue.
“We can postpone the tournaments including the Olympics, but coaches are very important for every country to develop their national teams and their plans should continue. Therefore, let the AVC Headquarters know you need to conduct extra meeting such as online like this. Continue your plan until you can’t continue due to the pandemic. We can add another plan, anyway.
“Truly speaking, continuation is an important step every coach of every country makes to be able to strengthen their athletes. The competition is still there, but you can continue whatever you had planned earlier. Let the headquarters be informed and at the same time contact FIVB in some cases such as the deadline of the applications. This is a matter of training the athletes”.
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