International tournament is a dream come through-Shuffler

Nov 16, 2012 Sports

Describing it as a dream come through, President of the Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) Lenox Shuffler in his speech to launch the Castrol Strikers ‘True Champions’ Tournament told a gathering of the media yesterday at the National Gymnasium that local fans will see the revival of the game here with the staging of the Invitational event.
Shuffler, who has been instrumental in getting the tournament

President of the GVF Lenox Shuffler (with trophy) poses for a photo op with visiting teams and officals along with DVA President Ian Wills yesterday.

here through the use of his office following his attendance at a recent FIVB Congress first thanked the visiting teams for accepting the invitation to play here, before stating how important it is for the tournament to be staged which he opined could be the fillip the game needs to move forward.
The teams that arrived for the 3-day tournament which starts today and ends on Sunday are from Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname and Brazil, but are not national representative teams rather from clubs.
The GVF President recently returned from a Meeting with new FIVB President Dr Ary Graca and the executive of the South American Volleyball Federation (CSV) in Rio, Brazil which was held on November 12 and 13.
The visit was a follow up to his continued request that Brazil become “BIG BROTHER” to GVF and that a South American Volleyball Association be formed with the Federation of Amapa (Brazil), Cayenne, Suriname, Guyana and Roraima (Brazil) in the first instance for the development of volleyball in this part of South America with increased activity at affordable cost.
Shuffler, who started this process in 2001when he presented his Block Development Plan and which was approved by FIVB and CSV in 2004. Also in attendance yesterday was President of the Demerara Volleyball Association (DVA) Ian Wills, who first presented the teams and also extended thanks to them for being here.