PH now professional risk for SEA Games volleyball gold

If there’s something obviously transparent after every week of skirmishes within the AVC Women’s Nations Cup in Vietnam is that the Philippines has introduced its coming as a valid volleyball energy.

So the silver medal that the Filipinos settled for after a 25-15, 25-17, 25-14 beating by the hands of the Vietnamese at Dong Anh Arena in Hanoi on Saturday evening indubitably glitters like gold—and evidently, is making their Southeast Asian neighbors take a 2nd have a look at them from hereon.

“The Philippine team delivered a remarkable performance,” Vietnam trainer Nguyen Tuan Kiet stated via an interpreter after their win past due Saturday evening. “The Philippines will undoubtedly be a serious contender [later] this year [in the Southeast Asian Games].”

A marathon five-set win in opposition to Chinese Taipei within the semifinals closing Friday evening clearly had the Filipinos coming in fatigued for the gold medal fit, however crew skipper Jia De Guzman is aware of that Team PH is heading in the right direction against attaining a lifelong dream of dominating the area.

“It means everything, honestly, because it’s hard to see the growth of the sport and our team without the result,” De Guzman stated. “We didn’t expect to get a silver coming into this tournament. We just knew that we had to give our best because last year we got the bronze.”

De Guzman was once adjudged the most productive in her place for the second one instantly version, and making improvements to a rung as a crew from the closing time no doubt proves that everybody at the squad is doing issues proper.

And that going the entire manner is the following goal.

“This silver inspires us to go back to training and keep working together as a team and to keep going for this long-term program because, slowly but surely, we’re rising as a country,” stated the 30-year-old playmaker.

A proud trainer

Brazilian trainer Jorge Souza de Brito additionally took satisfaction in steerage this intrepid staff.

“We are happy with second place. We’re on the way [to bigger things],” De Brito, who additionally coached the bronze medal crew closing 12 months at house, stated. “It’s a procedure. I’m glad and happy with the entire gamers and training personnel, the entire fortify additionally that you’ve from the federation.

“It’s really amazing,” he went on. “Really, really good players that you have to develop them here and the group will become stronger and stronger year after year. I’m sure of it.”

No ladies’s crew prior to now has seemed as ambitious as this one, and with the SEAG coming later this 12 months, De Brito and the gamers have months to deal with no matter lapses they’d within the Hanoi event.

The ability is there, and regardless that the Vietnamese trainer did say that PH large weapons Angel Canino and Bella Belen “stood out despite their modest height,” meshing the crew much more will fall at the shoulders of De Brito.

Height, after all, is helping.

But a crew that has jelled to the fullest may also be as bad because the tallest aspect available in the market. They have till the SEAG in Thailand to search out that out.