FIVB AND OLYMPIC SOLIDARITY DELIVER COACHES COURSES ACROSS THE WORLD

Seven of 22 Olympic Solidarity Technical Courses for Coaches have been conducted in three different continents

The FIVB is collaborating with Olympic Solidarity to offer short-term training courses at a variety of levels for volleyball coaches all over the world in various languages. Between March and May, as many as seven Olympic Solidarity Technical Courses for Coaches were conducted in various countries across three Continental Confederations.

Iran, Mozambique, Palau and Micronesia hosted Level I volleyball courses, Bhutan and Congo hosted Level II volleyball courses, while Estonia organised a beach volleyball course. Each of these was a practical five-day course, available in English, French or Spanish. In total, 120 participants, with approximately a third of them being female coaches, benefitted from these seven courses.

The first course (pictured in the main photo) was delivered in early March in the Iranian capital Tehran.

Iran Volleyball Federation President Mohammadreza Davarzani with the participants in the coaches course in Tehran

The course in Mozambique from 6 to 10 March, was conducted in the capital Maputo.

A practical session during the course in Maputo

There was a third course held in the Oceania island of Palau that welcomed 18 participants in March.

The participants in the course in Palau show off their FIVB certificates

The Level II course conducted in Central Asia was held in Thimphu, Bhutan in April.

Instructor Christian Kroger with the participants in the course in Thimphu

The first of three the African continent courses organised in May was held in Congo’s capital Brazzaville.

Practical session on the volleyball court during the course in Brazzaville

Later in May, a Level I course was held in Pohnpei, Micronesia.

Instructor Tony Westman with some of the course participants during the graduation ceremony in Micronesia

In between, from 4 to 8 May, in Tallinn, Estonia, an FIVB Coaches Course in beach volleyball took place under the instruction of Athens 2004 Olympic silver medallist and three-time Olympian Javier Bosma of Spain.