PH now reliable risk for SEA Video games volleyball gold

If there’s one factor obviously clear after every week of skirmishes within the AVC Girls’s Nations Cup in Vietnam is that the Philippines has introduced its coming as a reliable volleyball energy.

So the silver medal that the Filipinos settled for after a 25-15, 25-17, 25-14 beating by the hands of the Vietnamese at Dong Anh Area in Hanoi on Saturday night time actually glitters like gold—and for positive, is making their Southeast Asian neighbors take a second have a look at them from hereon.

“The Philippine workforce delivered a outstanding efficiency,” Vietnam coach Nguyen Tuan Kiet mentioned by an interpreter after their win late Saturday night time. “The Philippines will undoubtedly be a critical contender [later] this yr [in the Southeast Asian Games].”

A marathon five-set win in opposition to Chinese language Taipei within the semifinals final Friday night time clearly had the Filipinos coming in fatigued for the gold medal match, however workforce skipper Jia De Guzman is aware of that Staff PH is heading in the right direction in the direction of attaining a lifelong dream of dominating the area.

“It means every little thing, actually, as a result of it’s laborious to see the expansion of the game and our workforce with out the consequence,” De Guzman mentioned. “We didn’t anticipate to get a silver coming into this match. We simply knew that we needed to give our greatest as a result of final yr we obtained the bronze.”

De Guzman was adjudged the perfect in her place for the second straight version, and bettering a rung as a workforce from the final time positively proves that everybody on the squad is doing issues proper.

And that going all the best way is the subsequent goal.

“This silver evokes us to return to coaching and maintain working collectively as a workforce and to maintain going for this long-term program as a result of, slowly however certainly, we’re rising as a rustic,” mentioned the 30-year-old playmaker.

A proud coach

Brazilian coach Jorge Souza de Brito additionally took pleasure in steering this intrepid crew.

“We’re proud of second place. We’re on the best way [to bigger things],” De Brito, who additionally coached the bronze medal workforce final yr at residence, mentioned. “It’s a course of. I’m blissful and pleased with all of the gamers and training employees, all of the assist additionally that you’ve from the federation.

“It’s actually superb,” he went on. “Actually, actually good gamers that it’s a must to develop them right here and the group will change into stronger and stronger yr after yr. I’m positive of it.”

No girls’s workforce up to now has appeared as formidable as this one, and with the SEAG coming later this yr, De Brito and the gamers have months to handle no matter lapses that they had within the Hanoi match.

The expertise is there, and although the Vietnamese coach did say that PH huge weapons Angel Canino and Bella Belen “stood out regardless of their modest top,” meshing the workforce much more will fall on the shoulders of De Brito.

Peak, after all, helps.

However a workforce that has jelled to the fullest may be as harmful because the tallest facet on the market. They’ve till the SEAG in Thailand to seek out that out.