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 Evaluation
of the Golden Formula in official Seminar
 DOHA,
November 08, 2009 – The FIVB organised a
seminar to discuss the new rule of the
“Golden Formula” that had been trialed for
the first time as a test during the FIVB
2009 Men’s Club World Championship hosted by
Qatar at the Aspire Zone Indoor Hall in Doha
following the first round matches of the
competition and before the final matches.
The new rule requires that the first attack
for each team comes after the opponent
service begins from the back row in an
attempt to produce longer rallies.
The meeting discussed through the statistics
made during the competition, the value of
the new rule in the elongation of the
rallies. The FIVB experts had their own
opinion about the role of the Golden formula
in increasing the rate of the backline
attacks but on the other hand decreasing the
work of the middle blockers in the quick
attacks.
The discussion put also on table the
increased number of backline jumps for the
attackers and opposites from the coaches’
side and the possibility of increasing the
rate of injuries between those players.
The setters described their new role in
terms of the decreased number of
combinations in the first rally then the
return back to use all the tools starting
from the following rallies.
 The
meeting was attended by all the volleyball
parties including the FIVB Control Committee
of the competition led by the CC President
Shanrit Wongpraset, FIVB Sports Events
Director Piero Rebaudengo.
The meeting was attended also by the
experienced guests like the FIVB Board of
Administration member Mr. Douglas Beal, Joop
Alberda (1996 Olympic gold Medalists
Netherlands coach), Andrea Zorzo (FIVB
blogger) and Renan Dal Zotto (Brazil).
Four coaches from the eight participating
teams were also invited with four players
representing 4 different positions; the
setter Lloy Ball (Zenit Kazan), the opposite
Stephane Antiga (PGE Skra Belchatow), the
middle blocker Emanuele Birarelli and the
attacker Bruno Rezende (Cimed).
The FIVB invited also two from the FIVB
Referee commission Hassan Ahmed (Egypt) and
Songsak Chareonpong (Thailand) as well as
three of the competition referees and from
the coach’s commission Philippe Blain
(France) and Mohamed Habib (Kuwait) and
Laszlo Herpai (Hungary) from the FIVB Rules
of the Games Commission. |
