Sports Banter | Pagbabahagi ni Ramon "Tats" Suzara, executive vice president ng FIVB, ng mga layunin ng pederasyon at planong makilala pa ang isport na volleyball

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Sports Banter | Pagbabahagi ni Ramon "Tats" Suzara, executive vice president ng FIVB, ng mga layunin ng pederasyon at planong makilala pa ang isport na volleyball

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00:00To continue our sports banter, let's go back to the interview with Mr. Ramon Tatsuzara,

00:13Executive Vice President of FIVB, in line with his goals and plans to make volleyball a more popular sport.

00:21Let's watch the whole interview.

00:23Thank you, Raf and Bernadette. I'm very honored to be your guest here.

00:29Sir, you are now the President of AVC and PNVF, and you have been added to the role of Executive Vice President of FIVB.

00:42So with that, what is our vision for the development of volleyball in the Philippines?

00:48Part of my mandate as a President of the Philippine National Volleyball Federation,

00:56and was elected also President of the Asian Volleyball Confederation last month, in August.

01:02This continues to do my job, not only in the Philippines, in Asia, and in the world,

01:09being elected or appointed as Executive Vice President of the FIVB. It means it's more work,

01:17more activities for me to help and support. I used to be with the Empowerment Commission

01:26of the FIVB for the last four years, so we have been helping a lot of national teams worldwide.

01:32Of course, including the Philippines, we are one of the biggest beneficiaries of this

01:39Empowerment Program of the FIVB.

01:41Aside from that, Sir, do we have any other short-term goals as the Vice President of FIVB?

01:49Well, during the elections of AVC, I presented my 10-point agenda for AVC for the next four years.

02:05The first one is, of course, to put volleyball to be in the most popular sports, top five popular

02:12sports in Asia. That's my number one strategy. The second one is to have a permanent AVC

02:19headquarters in Bangkok. Our headquarters in Bangkok is temporary, but now we are having a

02:26new house. It's a new house, it's a big house, and hopefully by first quarter, the AVC house

02:33should be ready. Of course, I'd like to form or organize a new important committee in AVC,

02:44the Athletes Committee. The athletes have to be involved in the affairs of Asia.

02:50Another one is empowerment, empowering women in sports, women in volleyball,

02:56empowering the national teams and federations. Of course, I'd like to push for some of the

03:02national federations from different countries. We are 65 countries in Asia. It's to do a co-hosting

03:11of international events. In the Philippines, we've been hosting a lot. Thailand, of course,

03:16Japan are also hosting a lot, and Vietnam also. But I'd like to push for more countries in Asia

03:23to host more international events, Asia or FIV events. Then there is a part that we put

03:33what we call safeguarding to protect our athletes and officials. The highlight, of course, is to

03:41partner with technology, broadcast, licensing. Last on the agenda of my 10-point agenda is the

03:53hosting of the first AVC Gala Night, honoring fail basers in volleyball in Asia. So the best

04:01player, best male player, best female player, beach, indoor, best national federation. So

04:08this highlights the 10-point agenda for me, for Asia.

04:12All right. Sir, do we have other plans to support FIVB, the athletes, coaches, and staff?

04:20You know, since we were part of the empowerment program of FIVB, FIVB has been sending us foreign

04:29coaches as a national team. So, you know, we have Brazilian coaches for indoor women

04:34and for beach volleyball, and now we have a men's Italian coach, since we are hosting the

04:41Men's World Championship next year. So this is part of the support that they're giving,

04:47aside from helping our national teams competing abroad. And our world ranking,

04:54men and women, were 117 the last two years. So after this empowerment program, our women now

05:02is 57 in the world from 117, and our men is 64 in the world from 117. Hopefully next year,

05:10we can improve more on our world ranking, because we get a lot of points by competing a lot.

05:16Yes. Well, Sir, you mentioned about our hosting next year. How is our update on the solo hosting

05:24of the Philippines in FIVB? And this is historical. Yeah. Of course, I'd like to thank

05:30His Excellency President Marcos and the First Lady, Lisa Araneta Marcos. Last September 14,

05:37we had the one-year countdown here in Manila at Solaire, and the next day was September 15.

05:44It was a concert being held for the first time in Malacanang Park,

05:50hosted by the first family. So this means that the government is supporting this

05:56biggest world volleyball event next year for the first time with 32 teams. Of course, we have,

06:02of course, Senators Alan and Pierre Quintanao who are helping us, POC President Bambal Tontino is

06:07on the board, PSC Chairman Bachman. Of course, our patron in sports, MVP, Manny B. Pangilinan,

06:16is also supporting us a lot. So hopefully we are moving forward. By next month, we are moving to a

06:24new organizing committee office, BGC. So we'll put in place everything there to prepare.

06:33Yes, Sir Tats, just a quick follow-up. How is our roster?

06:40Now, all the national team players are in the club season. Our women players are having the PBL

06:46now, but we have also our setter in the national team, CGI, is playing in Japan.

06:55And the men are also having their club season, the Spikers Tour. So the club season starts usually

07:02October to May. This is not only in the Philippines, but also worldwide, Asian, worldwide.

07:11They go to the club. After the club, they go back to the national team. So by

07:15end of April, the national team players will report.

07:22We'll report and then we'll prepare the competitions for next year. So there's a lot

07:26of competitions again next year. We have the first ever ABC Champions League. This is a new

07:32league that we will launch in May, under my presidency. And then we have the ABC Challenge Cup.

07:39And then of course, we have other events like Southeast Asian League,

07:44CB League, we call it. And then we have the World Championships.

07:47Next year.

07:51Again, it's a good exposure for our team.

07:57We have the World Beach Ball Tour this coming weekend, November 28 to December 1 at Nuvali

08:03Suncourse.

08:08Not like the indoor, it has a season for the club.

08:17For FIVV.

08:21Normally, the national team, after the club season, if there is the first tournament,

08:28usually May or June, you have one month to prepare. Not only us, but all other countries

08:34are the same. But for the World Championship, I'm sure the program that our coach Angelino

08:41from Italy are doing is to have a European tour. Of course, training camps in Japan and Korea

08:48before the World Championship in September.

08:52Some months ago, you appeared in the PSA Forum.

09:12Do you still have a line of communication between our national team and Jaja's camp?

09:17Yes. Jaja has been communicating with our head coach,

09:22Jorge. And it will depend on her schedule if she will still like to play in the national team.

09:30Jia has been playing in Japan, but she's coming back to play in the national team.

09:34And other players who are playing outside of the Philippines. So she's still welcome,

09:39of course, if she really wants to play in the national team.

09:44Because FEDERATION OF THE ORIGIN is still in the Philippines, even though she's a Japanese citizen.

09:49Sir, your involvement in volleyball in three different levels, local, Asian, and then world.

09:58In the big picture, what can you say about the development of volleyball here in the Philippines?

10:06I think this is a big opportunity to have a lot of collaboration, cooperation with other countries.

10:16We have good relationship with European countries that our teams can play.

10:21Even our beach volleyball was in Italy for a competition early this year.

10:27Our men's and women's ALAS indoor will have a lot of competitions also next year,

10:34whether in Asia or in Europe. So there's a lot of opportunities, competitions.

10:41Because as discussed with our foreign coaches, we need at least 30 matches in a year.

10:47And 30 matches is a lot. So you need to compete a lot, whether here or abroad or somewhere.

10:56So this puts to our objective that the more they play, the more that we will improve.

11:03And we're targeting that they play much more outside of the Philippines and come back for the competitions in the Philippines.

11:14All right. What can you say about the progress of volleyball in the Philippines?

11:19Because we have a lot of volleyball leagues here and the support of our fans.

11:26I think the Filipinos are volleyball crazy fans.

11:32There's a lot. I think we are one of the most important volleyball fans in the world.

11:38In fact, during the FIB World Congress in Portugal,

11:42Philippines is one of the highlights as a fan crazy country for volleyball worldwide.

11:49Not only in Asia, but in the last three years we've been hosting the VNL.

11:55Volleyball fans are really there to cheer, not only we don't even have a team,

12:00but to cheer for all the teams that are competing in the VNL.

12:04And now comes the World Championship with 32 teams.

12:06I'm sure there's a lot of exciting games both in Moa Arena and Araneta Coliseum.

12:15So we'll be able to watch a lot for 17 days next year, September 12 to 28 for the World Championship.

12:24That bodes well for us because we'll be able to see different leagues around the world.

12:30The Philippines is a viable venue for big events, invaluable.

12:35I've been talking to some of the presidents of the national federations like Canada,

12:40USA, Italy, of course Japan, Slovenia, Korea.

12:45They would like to come earlier before the World Championship.

12:48They like to come two weeks before.

12:50And there are some interests from our local government to host these teams.

12:55To do some social activity, clinics for the kids.

12:58So they're most welcome to come earlier.

13:00So this is really a good chance for us to really expose a lot of opportunities,

13:06not only for volleyball itself, but for also the local government and for our children also.

13:11Yes, alright.

13:12Thank you so much, Sir Ramon.

13:14And for inviting us here to the PTV Sports Network.

Sports Banter | Pagbabahagi ni Ramon "Tats" Suzara, executive vice president ng FIVB, ng mga layunin ng pederasyon at planong makilala pa ang isport na volleyball

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