Morocco Volleyball Federation President Bouchra Hajij became the first ever African woman to be elected into FIVB Board of Administration. She garnered 147 votes at the Minority Gender FIVB Board elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Thursday. Hajij gained the biggest no of votes ahead of former Indonesia Olympic Committee President Rita Subowo (141 votes) […]
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Morocco Volleyball Federation organised a Cool Volley Festival in the launching of African Dream Project in Al Jadida, Morocco on April 5.
More than 350 boys and girls took part in the festival including a tournament of Beach VB held at El Jadida Beach. The Beach event showed 24 teams participating, while the Cool Volley Festival featured 77 teams each of 4 players.
The Moroccan TV covered the event alongside 3 Radio stations and lots of journalist from the print Media.
“We want to send our great thanks to both FIVB and CAVB for their efforts to develop the sport from the scratch in most African countries,” Morocco VB Fed President Ms Bouchra Hajij said. “We also want to appreciate the efforts done by all stakeholders in Morocco to help developing both Volleyball and Beach Volleyball in the whole country.
“We are also happy for the media coverage of the event and showing the joy of the children playing their beloved sport, Volleyball.
The Project which is supervised by FIVB President Dr Ary Grace began in most of the African countries since it was approved by CAVB Board of Administration and aims at having a common project mainly focusing on volleyball at school. All relevant stakeholders are involved which are Ministry of Education, Ministry of Sport, Ministry of Youth, and National Olympic Committee. The project will see the setting up of centers that will be used to develop identified athletes at young age and arranging all the keys for their involvement later on to their corresponding Youth national teams.
CAVB web site: http://www.cavb.org
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CAVBVolleyball
YouTube: CAVB Video
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African Volleyball confederation “CAVB” Zone I held its meeting in Rabat, Morocco on April 12, 2015 to discuss the busy 2015 calendar and the new developmental initiatives.
The meeting was attended by the presidents of the 4 NFs belonging to the zone led by the zone President Mr Okaba Gougam, who is also the Algerian Volleyball Federation president beside Morocco VB Federation President Ms Bouchra Hajij, CAVB Vice President and Tunisia VB Fed President Mr Munir Ben Slimane and Libya V Fed President Mr Adnan Bekbak.
The meeting was also attended by the 4 Technical Directors of the corresponding NFs; Mouloud Telmecane (Algeria), Kamal Rakaya (Tunisia), Mustapha Ahchouche (Morocco) and Moustafa El Sadek (Libya).
The members approved the minutes of the last meeting on December 20, 2014 and then discussed the zonal qualifiers for 2015 All Africa Games and the Continental Championships along with the new initiative of holding qualifiers for all the age group championships.
Among other zonal activities, the meeting negotiated all the development courses to be held within the zone countries beside the Programme of the Tunisian Development Center.
A lot of Media covered the event specially the Moroccan TV which had the chance to interview all the NFs presidents.
CAVB web site: http://www.cavb.org
Twitter: CAVB Tweets
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CAVBVolleyball
YouTube: CAVB Video
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