Beijing, China, March 19, 2024 – The Eastern Asia Volleyball Association (EAVA) held a signinificant meeting here at the New World Beijing Hotel on Tuesday afternoon and Mr Yuan Lei, himself Vice President of China Volleyball Association, was elected new president of the zone with a landslide victory.
Yuan Lei
Mr Cai Yi, current EAVA President, chaired the meeting with the attendance of delegates from 8 member federations of Eastern Zone as well as the EAVA Executive Committee Members. Attending as guests of honor comprised Mr Liu Guoyong, Vice Minister of General Administration of Sport of China, FIVB General Director Mr Fabio Azevedo, Mr Luis Alexandre Pontes Rodrigues, FIVB Director for Asia & Oceania, AVC Secretary General Mr Kiattipong Radchatagriengkai and Madam Lai Yawen, Executive Vice President and Secretary General of CVA.
Liu Guoyong
In his welcome speech ahead of the meeting, Mr Liu Guoyong, on behalf of General Administration of Sport of China and Chinese Olympic Committee, expressed his cordial welcome and high respect to the volleyball friends from FIVB, AVC and Eastern Zone.
“The Chinese Government highly values the development of volleyball and has implemented policies and allocated funds to promote the sport. We will, as always, support the work of FIVB, AVC and Eastern Zone. And we hope to make greater contribution to regional and world volleyball sport,” he was quoted as saying in his speech.
“East Asia embodies large population, high level of volleyball techniques, large market and a great potential for the sport. In the past decades, we have endeavored to develop the sport of volleyball together, and in the future let us keep united under the leadership of and support from FIVB and AVC so as to set a better environment for volleyball, deepen the regional exchanges, and jointly write a new chapter of volleyball sport in East Asia,” he added.
Fabio Azevedo, middle
Mr Fabio Azevedo followed to deliver a speech at the meeting. “It’s my honor and pleasure to be here to get with you today. I feel myself at home. I feel part of this family, a big volleyball family in the world, in Asia, in East Asia. We have achieved a great performance in the last twelve years, in the last three Olympic cycles. We are ready to move forward in the next Olympic cycles to come. Everyone and every movement counts on volleyball court as well as in our volleyball society. We need the spirit of collaboration. Let’s keep united and move on as a…
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