The Confederation of African Volleyball has awarded Nigeria the hosting right of the CAVB 2nd phase of beach volleyball Group C women Olympic qualifiers between 4th and 8th of March,2020.
Nigeria female beach volleyball team is drawn alongside,Kenya, Cape verde,Congo RDC and Zambia in the group C qualifiers that will holding at Jabi Lake Beach, Abuja,
The participating countries are expected to arrive Nigeria on the 4th of March while Technical Meeting is expected to hold same day March 2020
The main Competition is between 5th to 7th March and departure date is 8th March 2020.
The president of the Nigeria Volleyball Federation, Engineer Musa Nimrod who was visibly happy to host the Olympic qualifiers expressed optimism on the team nigeria’s qualification at the end of the tournament stressing that all machineries have been put in place to motivate the team to qualify.
“The Federation is excited and encouraged to host the tournament and as you know that Nigeria’s female team is highly rated and ranked in Africa,so,by God’s grace, the female team will win the ticket from group C” Nimrod assures.
The head Coach of the national Female team, Francis Imoudu assured Nigerians of winning the ticket emphasising that the players are in top form to deliver having scaled through the first hurdle in Accra Ghana.
The Technical Chairman of the Federation, Martin Melandi said the players would be invited to the camp immediately after the end of President Beach Volleyball tournament holding in Kaduna between 19th to 23rd of February.
PR/Kehinde Lamidi