East Kazakhstan volleyball club"Altai"receivedwildcardin the most prestigious club start in world volleyball.
This was announced at a press conference held today dedicated to this event. The press conference was attended by the head of the department physical culture and sports of East Kazakhstan region Askar Mozhanov, sports director of VC "Altai" Doszhan Ualkhanov and head coach Altai women's team Yuri Panchenko.
In 2017, the Asian Club Volleyball Championship among women's teams was held for the first time in the East Kazakhstan region. Rating high organizational moment The Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) entrusted our region to host the Asian Club Volleyball Championship in 2018. During the Championship, a member of the executive committee of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB), Stav Jacobi, was present. After Club Championship Asia 2017-2018, akim of the East Kazakhstan region Danial Akhmetov submitted a petition to the FIVB to participate in the Club World Volleyball Championship among women's teams. The FIVB management, highly appreciating the holding of the Asian Club Championship in 2017-2018 and seeing the potential in the dynamics of volleyball development in the region, supported the request of the regional akim and provided a wild card to participate in the championship. I would like to note that 10 teams from five continental confederations are participating in this championship. Also, two teams are participating at the invitation of the FIVB, having received a wild card,” said Askar Mozhanov.
The team for participation in the World Championship is already beginning to take shape, but, according to head coach Yuri Panchenko, there are objective factors that do not allow starting preparations now.
Unfortunately, we have an unusual situation,” says Yuri Petrovich. - Most of the Altai players are involved in the national team, and we will wait for the end of at least the preliminary round of the World Championship to have an idea of which players we can count on. We have plans to hold a preparatory training camp in Turkey, in which about 90% of the squad that will compete in China at the World Championships will take part. We will play at the home Kazakhstan Cup and in the first round National League, after which we will begin targeted preparations for the World Championship. We are planning to strengthen the squad directly for the World Cup, but so far without any specifics. There is still time.
VC "Altai", created on the initiative of Danial Akhmetov in 2015, will become the first club in the history of Kazakh volleyball to take part in the Club World Championship. The Women's Club World Championship has been held since 1991, and in 2010 the tournament became an annual event. Previously, the Championship was hosted by Brazil (1991, 1994), Italy (1992), Qatar (2010-2012), Switzerland (2013-2015), the Philippines (2016) and Japan (2017). Gold medal winners were clubs from Brazil (1991, 1994, 2012), Italy (1992), Azerbaijan (2011), Russia (2014) and Turkey (2010, 2015-2017).
Press service of the Department of Physical Culture and Sports of East Kazakhstan region
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