Thursday late afternoon FIVB delegation started in Poland two days visit with Men’s World Championship Organization Committee Poland 2014. All meetings are related to preparation for the final tournament which starts on National Stadium in Warsaw on August 30th and finishes in Spodek in Katowice.
FIVB was representing by Vice-President Aleksandar Boricić and Gabrielle van Zwieten, Fernando Lima, Guido Betti, Richard Baker and Alberto Rigamoni who will take care of all issues related with organization. Women’s World Championship Committee was represented by Renato Arena.
- The main goal for the meeting with FIVB representatives was discussion all aspects which help us to organize this tournament on the perfect level. Basic matters are already agreed, but how they say in Poland ‘devil is in details’, that’s why we should focus on things which on the first glance do not look very important, but sometimes those things can bring a lot of problems – said President of Polish Federation Mirosław Przedpełski.
During the first part of the meeting touched details questions related with direct arrangements with Polish final. To all FIVB representatives chart of Men’s World Championship Organizational Committee, plan of the open and close ceremony and game on the National Stadium were shown. There were discussion about tickets’ distribution, especially for the foreign fans, transport and security. All details for accreditation system, access to technology transmission and communication rules were set up. A lot of time took discussion about challenge system, which will be used during tournament in Poland. Current system will be more developed and new rules cooperation with the arbitrators will be needed.
- This is not control visit of Polish Federation. They have all our trust. It seems that this tournament will be really remarkable. Already opening game on the football stadium, with more the 60 thousand of spectators, especially with my national team (Serbia), guarantee that this tournament will be hard to forget – sum up Aleksandar Boricić.
