Coach Kungfu Reyes, whose eye for talent has led to the invention of a few of volleyball’s biggest stars, knows there are loads of young kids who could make it big in the game.
“They’re on the market within the provinces and I do know there are loads of them,” he said on Tuesday.
The National Grassroots Volleyball League (NGVL) intends to seek out as lots of them as it might probably.
“Our goal with the NGVL is to have the option to go to each place within the Philippines where there are girls who need to play basketball,” said league president Yvette Katigbak-Ambrocio, who was together with her husband, Froi, the league’s president for operations, and Reyes on the Philippine Sportswriters Association Forum on Tuesday.
The NGVL, which was created this yr to offer a platform for ladies under 16 years old to showcase their volleyball skills, is heading into its national finals from May 3 to May 7 at FilOil Centre, where 14 teams, including two from abroad, will compete for the title.
Foreign teams
All participating local squads went through various stages of the countrywide qualification process, and organizers said the response was as amazing as the quantity of talent discovered from faraway provinces.
Apart from the qualified teams from Metro Manila, there will likely be entries from Zamboanga, Cagayan de Oro, Davao, Bacolod, Bicol, Laguna, Baguio, and Pangasinan.
Two foreign teams, Recent Zealand’s FilSpikerz Volleyball Club and the Sentrix Falcons of the United Arab Emirates.—INQUIRER SPORTS DESK INQ