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Cover photo
Russia’s men’s team take their lives and Global overview reveals
rich potential
their coach Vladimir Alekno in their
hands following Olympic success in
London last year

Publication Managing The first weeks of my presidency have given me And finally I was extremely pleased to visit
and Editorial Committee a great insight into the worldwide potential of Algeria and Italy in quick succession. A new FIVB
Fédération Internationale our sport. I have always believed volleyball can development programme targeting North Africa aims
de Volleyball be a truly global sport and since my inauguration to use the considerable talent available to the Italian
Château Les Tourelles in Anaheim, my visits to each FIVB Continental federation to train coaches in Algeria and around the
Confederation have presented a wonderful spirit of Mediterranean, and similar programmes are being
Edouard-Sandoz 2-4,
cooperation and anticipation of what lies ahead. established in other parts of the world, like Serbia and
1006 Lausanne, Switzerland
Poland where transfer of knowledge is so important
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Of course, while in the US, I had the opportunity to meet for the well-being of our sport.
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many of the NORCECA members who have impressed
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with how they have immersed themselves into beach With this great sense of teamwork and unity,
Press Department Director
volleyball and volleyball with such great passion. I am definitely looking forward to 2013 with
Richard Baker
great optimism.
Managing Editor One of my first trips as President of the FIVB was to the
Adam Szreter Club World Championships in Doha, where we were
SportsWrites International treated to another superbly organised tournament thanks
www.sportswrites.com to Mr Khalid Ali Al-Mawlawi and his team at the Qatar
Volleyball Federation.
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I returned in December for the Doha GOALS conference,
Design where world leaders including former French President
amethys.ch Nicolas Sarkozy shared ideas on social improvement through
Translation sport. I am proud that volleyball has a big role to play when it
comes to creating initiatives for global progress through sport.
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Reproduction Executive Committee Meeting as President in my home
Reproduction of any article town of Rio de Janeiro. It was a crucial meeting to formulate
or part of the magazine many of the key strategic ideas to implement change in our
is authorised, providing that organisation. We will be seeing the fruits of these in the FIVB President
the source is explicitly cited coming months, when we can expect great change and Dr. Ary S. Graça F°
modernisation of our sport and organisation.
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The Big Picture
Horse Guards Parade
a hit with Olympic fans
In an International Olympic Committee poll of Facebook fans, beach volleyball was
the only sport to be nominated in the top ten highlights of the 2012 London Olympic
Games. More than 40,000 fans took part in the poll, with Usain Bolt’s defence of his
100m and 200m titles voted No.1. The next eight positions were all filled by single
athletes or teams, but the No.10 entry was: Beach Volleyball Lights Up Horse Guards
Parade. “Few venues in London caught the imagination quite like it,” said the IOC’s
official website.
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4 COVER STORY

By Lev Rossoshik

Alekno takes a technical timeout

Vladimir Alekno swept all before him in his second spell in charge of the Russian men’s national team, including Olympic gold last
year in London. Now, at the age of 46, he has decided to step down from national team duties once again – but will he be back?
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Vladimir Alekno, who has stepped down as Russian

men’s coach for the second time

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6 ALEKNO TAKES A TECHNICAL TIMEOUT

The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus said, “No man ever steps in Alekno believes he is unlucky and the reason for the team suffering so
the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same many unfortunate defeats. However, such pessimistic thoughts were
man.” Vladimir Alekno has stepped into the river twice, though with surely assuaged by his team’s assured victory in the 2011 World Cup,
contrasting fortunes. and there was no hint of bad luck when Zenit Kazan, Alekno’s club side,
secured victory in the CEV Champions League.
During his first spell in charge of the Russian men’s team Alekno failed
to win a single competition. The nadir came in 2007, when Russia lost Alekno missed the start of the first training camp ahead of London 2012
the European Championship final to Spain on home soil in Moscow. as he was in Germany undergoing a major operation on his spine that
A year later, on top of their game, Russia suffered a crushing defeat meant he needed to have metal plates inserted, as a result of which,
against USA in the Olympic semifinals; bronze was no consolation for whenever he flies, he now needs a special permit enabling him to bypass
the ambitious Alekno, who duly stepped down from his post. airport security controls.

But two years later he was back, declaring: “I think I can build a team “After that period away, what made me happiest was my assistant
capable of achieving something no Russian team has done in 20 years: telling me that, during the 10 days I was absent, the players’ attitude
winning a major tournament.” True to his word, Alekno led Russia was beyond reproach. When I first started working with the national
to victory in the World League in Gdansk, playing a stylish brand of team in 2007 there was a change in attitude. The players changed. They
volleyball that made everyone believe Russia could finally become kings probably realised the importance of what they were doing. That’s when I
of Europe. understood that with the guys we had, we could beat anyone.”

But they were foiled yet again, this time in the most bizarre circumstances. Russia’s surprise victory at London 2012 was very much a triumph for
Ahead of their European Championship semifinal against Serbia, one their coach, who demonstrated an uncanny knack for unorthodox
of their main players arrived with the wrong shirt and had to go back match-changing decisions. After a period of soul-searching, Alekno
to the hotel to fetch the right one. The incident wrecked the team’s recently announced that he planned to relinquish his national team
concentration, and having lost the first set they were unable to regain duties, to focus solely on his club role. But it is surely a matter of when,
the momentum and Serbia went on to win the match. not if, he returns once again to take charge of Russia.
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Celebrating victory in the 2011 FIVB World Cup, and with it qualification

for the 2012 Olympic Games

Alekno with gold in London, an achievement which subsequently led to a

special award from the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin

Alekno at work with his club side, Zenit Kazan, during last year’s FIVB

World Club Championships in Doha

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8 WORLD LEAGUE & WORLD GRAND PRIX

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First for Poland,
hat-trick for USA
Prior to the Olympic Games, the 2012
World League and World Grand Prix,
the two annual flagship FIVB events,
produced some memorable moments
of their own. VolleyWorld looks back
at both tournaments.
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Final Standings
FIVB WORLD LEAGUE 2012
FIVB WORLD LEAGUE
1 Poland POL
It was the crowning moment for Poland. Having built momentum
2 USA USA
with successive medals in FIVB events, they finally struck gold
3 Cuba CUB
with their World League triumph in Sofia. Following on from
4 Bulgaria BUL
5 Germany GER 2011 which saw them win World League and European bronze
5 Brazil BRA as well as World Cup silver, it capped a superb 12 months for
7 France FRA Andrea Anastasi’s men.
8 Russia RUS
9 Serbia SRB Playing in their first ever World League final, Poland trounced Olympic
10 Argentina ARG champions USA 3-0 (25-17, 26-24, 25-20) at the Arena Armeec to take
11 Italy ITA the title, having gone unbeaten through pool play dropping only two
12 Canada CAN sets against Brazil before beating the hosts Bulgaria in the semifinals in
13 Finland FIN straight sets.
14 Korea KOR
15 Japan JPN The triumph was coach Anastasi’s fifth World League title following two
16 Portugal POR
as a player for Italy (1990, 1991) and two as their coach (1999, 2000).
Poland’s triumph, built on the class of MVP Bartosz Kurek, was also a
reflection of how the sport is growing and the number of countries
who are now knocking on the door to success.

Cuba claimed the bronze medal after beating Bulgaria in a five-set thriller
(25-18, 19-25, 23-25, 25-23, 15-12). It was their first World League
medal since 2005, and a team captained by 18-year-old Wilfredo Leon
and including four other teenagers showed that a new generation of
players is ready to match the great Cuban teams of the past.

MVP Bartosz Kurek sends Poland on their way to a first FIVB title since the

1974 World Championships, with victory over Cuba in Pool F in Sofia

The triumph was coach Anastasi’s fifth World League title following two as a

player for Italy (1990, 1991) and two as their coach (1999, 2000)
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10 FIRST FOR POLAND, HAT-TRICK FOR USA
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Final Standings
FIVB WORLD GRAND PRIX 2012 FIVB WORLD GRAND PRIX
1 USA USA
While Poland’s men were breaking new ground, the women
2 Brazil BRA
of USA and Brazil were once again fighting for supremacy in
3 Turkey TUR
the World Grand Prix. The 20th edition of the event saw the
4 Thailand THA
5 China CHN world’s No.1 team, USA, take their third crown in as many
5 Cuba CUB years following five consecutive wins in the round-robin finals
7 Germany GER in Ningbo, China.
8 Poland POL
9 Japan JPN Brazil were left to contemplate a third straight silver medal, having
10 Italy ITA lost 3-2 to USA (25-19, 25-17, 19-25, 13-25, 15-13) in the opening
11 Serbia SRB match of the finals. While many teams had one eye on the Olympics,
12 Dominican Republic DOM USA coach Hugh McCutcheon’s blend of youth and experience
13 Puerto Rico PUE proved to be the winning combination. MVP Megan Hodge, 23, was
14 Korea KOR in devastating form, also picking up the Best Scorer award.
15 Argentina ARG
16 Chinese Taipei TPE
Turkey claimed their first ever FIVB medal by finishing third. Neslihan
Darnel was Best Server and third-highest scorer, pushing her team
forward with power and skill and providing brilliant leadership on
court. Thailand, in only their second Finals appearance, finished a
commendable fourth with the help of Sittirak Onuma, scorer of a
tournament-best 30 points in a thrilling 3-2 defeat of China.

Megan Hodge was the standout performer for winners USA in Ningbo

Neslihan Darnel was at her best as usual for Turkey, who finished third
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12 FIVB WORLD TOUR & CONTINENTAL CUP

FIVB WORLD TOUR 2012

FINAL RANKINGS - MEN
Rank Team Country Nb.part. Points Earnings US$
1 Gibb-Rosenthal USA *11 5.280 240,100
2 Alison-Emanuel BRA *9 5.180 224,000
3 Rogers-Dalhausser USA 8 4.120 161,400
4 = Ricardo-Cunha BRA *9 3.920 148,400
4 = Nummerdor-Schuil NED *9 3.920 168,400
6 Pedro-Marcio Araujo BRA *10 3.760 131,400
7 Fuerbringer-Lucena USA *11 3.640 120,000
8 Erdmann-Matysik GER *9 3.240 91,000
9 Samoilovs-Sorokins LAT *11 2.920 88,800
10 Nicolai-Lupo ITA 8 2.780 91,100

FIVB WORLD TOUR 2012

FINAL RANKINGS - WOMEN
Rank Team Country Nb.part. Points Earnings US$
1 Larissa-Juliana BRA *11 5.320 241,800
2 Xue-Zhang Xi CHN 9 5.240 214,300
3 Talita-Antonelli BRA 9 4.500 159,100
4 Kessy-Ross USA 9 4.360 138,200
5 Cicolari-Menegatti ITA 8 3.920 136,500
6 Holtwick-Semmler GER *10 3.760 127,400 Thanks for the memories: Women’s 2012 Points Champions
7 Kuhn-Zumkehr SUI *10 3.460 123,900
Larissa (left) and Juliana
8 Keizer-Van Iersel NED 7 3.340 110,000
9 Kolocova-Slukova CZE 8 3.240 85,900
Men’s 2012 Points Champions Jake Gibb (left) and Sean
10 Goller-Ludwig GER 8 3.160 91,800
Rosenthal are also going their separate ways in 2013
* Number of participations
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Revolution on the beach
The 2012 international beach volleyball season was
certainly not all about the Olympic Games. The season
featured 12 women’s and 11 men’s FIVB World Tour
events, and the culmination of the first edition of the
Beach Volleyball Continental Cup.

Martins Plavins (centre) and Janis Smedins (right) won their first Tour gold

medal at the last men’s event of the season in Stare Jablonki, but they will
FIVB WORLD TOUR also be with different partners next season

Brazil’s Larissa França and Juliana Felisberta finished Women’s It will be all change in the men’s event too, with 2012 Points
World Tour Points Champions for the seventh – and last – time. Champions Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal going their separate ways,
Gold medals in Beijing, Berlin and at the Mazury Orlen Open in the latter to pair up with Phil Dalhausser following the decision by
Poland meant they just pipped China’s Zhang Xi and Chen Xue, Dalhausser’s 2008 Olympic gold medal-winning partner Todd Rogers
5,320 points to 5,240, with another Brazilian pairing, Maria to reduce his playing schedule.
Antonelli and Talita Antunes, coming third.
Olympic bronze medallists Martins Plavins and Janis Smedins of Latvia
It was a fitting way for Juliana and Larissa to end their record-breaking will also play with different partners in 2013, while notable retirements
partnership. Next year will see Juliana pair up with Maria Antonelli included Switzerland’s Sascha Heyer and Simone Kuhn, Sara Göller of
while Larissa takes a break from the game. Olympic champions Kerri Germany and Natalie Cook of Australia.
Walsh and Misty May-Treanor will also be notable absentees following
May-Treanor’s retirement and with Walsh expecting her third child.
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14 FIVB WORLD TOUR & CONTINENTAL CUP

BEACH VOLLEYBALL
CONTINENTAL CUP
The Beach Volleyball Continental Cup provided a total of seven
tickets per gender to the 2012 Olympic Games in London,
breaking the trend of previous Games where the complete
Olympic quota of 23 teams (plus host nation) was determined
only via the World Tour rankings.

Instead, 143 countries participated in the Olympic qualification

process which ran from 2010 to 2012 across 71 tournaments and 54 CONTINENTAL CUP OLYMPIC QUALIFIERS The Mozambique

organising federations. Remarkable numbers which have set the tone Via Men Women squad looking happy

for the next edition which is expected to get underway in 2014. CAVB South Africa Mauritius despite finishing third

CSV Venezuela Argentina in the CAVB women’s

Such was the success of the Continental Cup that it has changed the NORCECA Canada Canada Continental Cup

philosophy of the international beach volleyball season for 2013 and AVC Japan Australia competition and just

beyond with new organisers and a record number of tournaments CEV Norway Russia missing out on Olympic

including many new ones, all with the aim of giving more players *Q ualification Austria Netherlands qualification
Tournament Russia Russia
around the world the chance to play at the top level.
*Winners and runners-up from the five Continental Cup competitions took part

Costa Rica’s Marcelo Araya in action during the NORCECA Robert Meeuwsen of the Netherlands (facing) spikes against Norway’s

Continental Cup competition Martin Spinnangr in the CEV men’s final in Alanya, Turkey
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Ana Gallay of Argentina concentrates on her serve

in the CSV women’s final against Uruguay

Indonesia on the attack against the Australian block

in the AVC men’s semifinals

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16 VOLLEYBALL

Italy, Russia, Turkey and Germany have been added to the 16 teams already

qualified to ensure all of the world’s top-10 ranked nations will participate

in this year’s World Grand Prix

Looking ahead to
a landmark year
The start of a new era for the FIVB and the start of what promises
to be a landmark year for volleyball. New tournaments, World
Championship qualifiers and new formats and teams for the World
League and World Grand Prix are set to revolutionise volleyball for
2013 and beyond.

One of the highlights on the international volleyball court in 2013 will

be the qualification process across all five continents for the 2014 World
Championships, with the men’s Final Round due to be held in Poland and
the women’s in Italy. With NORCECA having already started preliminary
qualifiers in 2012, the race for the 23 vacancies to see who will join the host
countries will heat up this year before the final phase in 2014.
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The World League and World Grand Prix will both feature a record
number of teams, with 18 in the World League and 20 in the Grand
Prix. The World League Finals will revert to their customary time-slot of
mid-July, while the World Grand Prix Finals will return to Japan, more
precisely the Olympic city of Sapporo, in late August.

Like beach volleyball, volleyball will welcome new Under-23 World

Championships alongside the four other age group tournaments
(Girls’ U18, Boys’ U19, Women’s U20 and Men’s U21), while the
annual Club World Championships will once again be one of the
highlights of the season.

The year will end instead with the FIVB World Grand Champions
Cup, which will take place in November in Japan with the continental
champions all in action vying to replace Brazil and Italy as men’s and
women’s champions respectively.

There will be an FIVB Under-23 World Championship for

men and women for the first time this year

The Club World Championships will be one of the

highlights of the year

This year’s World League Finals will feature eight teams instead of six
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18 BEACH VOLLEYBALL

The victorious Russian women’s squad

at last year’s FIVB Beach Volleyball World
Cup Olympic Qualification Tournament

Top of the bill this year will be the FIVB

Beach Volleyball World Championships
in Stare Jablonki, Poland from July 1-7

China’s Wang Fan serves during the

World Cup Olympic Qualification
Tournament in Moscow

The success of the Continental Cup, which involved 149 countries

over a two-year period, has encouraged many national federations to
participate in other FIVB events, setting the stage for a memorable year
for the World Tour in 2013. Peru, Qatar and Uganda are expected to

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host FIVB Open events for the first time, while USA could be welcomed
back for the first time since 2004 as part of a calendar likely to cover

Continental Cup nine months (March to December) and all five confederations.

inspires major A new Under 23 World Championship will also be launched in

2013 alongside the traditional U21 and U19 events in order to

change give opportunities to the growing number of young players on the

international circuit. A change of scene for beach volleyball in 2013,
which certainly bodes well for a very bright future for the sport for
Beach volleyball is on the verge of dramatic many years ahead.
change. “The Beach Volleyball Continental
Cup opened the eyes of many administrators
and players for the first time to what can be ‘The Continental Cup opened the
achieved with vision, great organisation and eyes of many administrators and
determination,” said FIVB President Dr. Ary S.
Graça F° in his end of year message. players for the first time to what
Top of the bill this year will be the FIVB Beach Volleyball World can be achieved’
Championships in Stare Jablonki, Poland from July 1-7, although
one of the first events of the season will be the World Cup Final in
Brazil.. The World Cup Final brings to a close the incredibly successful
first Continental Cup cycle, featuring the continental champions and The World Cup Final in Brazil will be one of

countries who qualified teams to the Olympic Games. the opening events of the year
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A new Under 23 World Championship will also be launched in

2013 alongside the traditional U21 and U19 events

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“ This is nothing
As the 2013 season
approaches, former USA
player, coach and Olympic
gold medallist Tom Hoff looks
ahead at the new volleyworld
order, and in particular the
changes to the World League
and World Grand Prix.

“The volleyball landscape is set for change in

2013 with the expansion of the World League and
World Grand Prix. The new format of these FIVB
properties will no doubt create some waves – and it’s
about time.
Volleyball can do with broader international
exposure, and the game itself can only benefit from
new countries competing with more experienced and
successful ones like Russia, Brazil and the US. The
new format might offer a chance to countries like
Bulgaria and Serbia, who have had a strong history
in the game but are short on recent international
experience, to become serious contenders in the
World League.
This is an excellent way to have more kids see the
game and to increase the base of young volleyball
players. This is nothing but great for the sport. There
are so many people who don’t have the introduction
to the game because it isn’t as prevalent in their
countries as basketball and football. But it will take
time for volleyball to get through to the kids and for
them to develop a passion for the sport.
If you’re a player, your primary concern is increasing
your success rate. But by increasing the number
of teams, you level the playing field and there is a
higher chance for upsets. It means that teams like
mine, the US men, have to be on top of our game
especially as it may be harder to analyse opponents.
Things are about to get a lot more interesting in
volleyball. Because even in volleyball, change is good.”
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”
but great for the sport

Iran beat Japan in a play-off to qualify for

the first time for the World League, which

has been expanded from 18 to 20 teams

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Confederations
AVC

Doha placing itself

centre stage
Doha is fast becoming one of Asia’s most important sporting venues.
The FIVB World Club Championships have been staged in the Qatari
capital every year since their revival in 2009, and the football world
will assemble there in 2022 for the FIFA World Cup. But Doha is
making its mark on the world of sport, and in particular volleyball,
in other ways. In January, the FIVB played an important role in the
second UNOSDP (United Nations Office on Sport for Development
and Peace) Youth Leadership Camp there. One month earlier, FIVB
President Dr. Ary S. Graça F° was a participant at the Doha GOALS
forum, the premier platform for world leaders to advance social
initiatives through sport. Doha and the FIVB have much in common.

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Great Britain women’s

captain Lynn Beattie was
in Doha for the FIVB
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CAVB

Rwandan beach
tourney for AIDS
The African 2012 junior champions for both men’s and women’s
beach volleyball took part in a highly successful tournament in
Karongi, western Rwanda at the end of the year to raise AIDS
awareness. The women’s junior champions, Denise Mutatsimpundu
and Charlotte Nzayisenga of Rwanda, struck gold once more but
the men’s champions, Yvan Dukundane and Brian Mugabowingabo
of Burundi, had to settle for silver, losing to Jean Luc
Mbonyuwontuma and Flavier Ndamukunda of Rwanda in the final.
“That was our time to prove that we beat them in preliminaries on
merit and we did it,” said Ndamukunda. “We are very happy for
that victory because it is an international victory.”

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The scene in Karongi where beach

volleyball was playing its part it
raising AIDS awareness

CEV

Much-travelled
Mihajlovic enjoying
life in Cannes
Serbia’s wing-spiker Brankica Mihajlovic is one of the most valuable
additions to the roster, not only of top French club side RC Cannes but
also of her national team. Mihajlovic was born in Bosnia & Herzegovina
but was authorised by the FIVB to switch her allegiance to Serbia,
whom she represented in last year’s London Olympic Games. After
spells in Switzerland and Korea, she is now settled on the French
Riviera, where she has joined national team-mate Milena Rasic. “We
want to win the national league once more this season but we do not
feel any pressure, we simply try to play our best,” says Mihajlovic.

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Serbia’s Brankica Mihajlovic

is happy with life on the
French Riviera
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CSV

Peru’s queen of
volleyball
Anybody wondering about the health of volleyball in Peru should
ask themselves the following question: where else in the world
would a volleyball coach top a national poll for personality of
the year? This was the case for Natalia Malaga, a medallist with
Peru at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul and now coach of the team
who took gold at the South American Youth Championship. The
Peruvian girls’ triumph on home territory in Lima last November
helped ensure that Malaga ranked first in a subsequent national
survey, ahead of Peru’s first lady, Nadine Heredia, and Mario
Vargas Llosa, the country’s Nobel Prize for Literature winner.

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Natalia Malaga is
considered a national
sporting treasure in Peru

NORCECA

Passion for the game

keeps ‘Feñito’ going
It could be down to tenacity, a quality typical of all the most durable
volleyball players, but ultimately it is his love for the sport that keeps
Puerto Rican Luis “Feñito” Rodriguez going at the age of 44. He
is not the outstanding middle blocker of days gone by, but this
volleyball Methuselah was still good enough to lead his Arecibo
team to this year’s Puerto Rico Superior League title, and he was
named Most Valuable Player of the final series. “I have to thank
God for giving me healthy life and allowing me to play for so long,”
said father-of-three Feñito, the oldest player to participate in the
2010 FIVB Men’s World Championship.

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Luis ‘Feñito’ Rodriguez is still

playing in the Puerto Rico Superior
League at the age of 44