Lausanne – With five months to go before the end of the 2nd millenium, the FIVB today officially launched a world-wide ballot to select Volleyball’s greatest stars of the 20th Century.
More than 1200 Journalists, 218 National Associations, TV Networks and World wide sponsors will be asked to cast ballots by fax with their choices in three categories:
The 20th Century’s Best Coach (Men and Women)
Best Team (Men and Women)
Best Player (Men and Women)
A special Jury will deliver the final verdict on November 30.
The first selection of candidates was decided at last month’s FIVB Congress in Seville, Spain.
The nominations are:
Best Coach
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Women’s Teams:Arie SELINGER (USA), Hirofumi DAIMATSU and Shigeo YAMADA (Japan), Yuan WEIMIN (China), Eugenio GEORGE (Cuba), Nicolai KARPOL and G. AKYAVLEDIANI (Russia), Bernardo REZENDE (Brazil).
Men’s Teams:Julio VELASCO (Italy/Argentina), Douglas P. BEAL and Marvin DUNPHY (USA), Yasutaka MATSUDAIRA (Japan), Vyacheslav PLATONOV (Russia), José GUIMARAES (Brazil), Eric DANIEL (France), Juan DIAZ (Cuba), Josef KOZAK (Czech), Dimitar GIGOV (Bulgaria), Hubert WAGNER (Poland).
Best Team
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Women’s: China team of 1981-85, Japan team of 1962-64, USA team of 1982-84, Cuba team of 1992-96, Russia team of 1988-92, Brazil team of 1994-96.
Men’s: USA team of 1984-88, Japan, team of 1968-72, Italy team of 1989-92, Netherlands team of 1992-96, Brazil team of 1992-93, Cuba team of 1989-91, Germany team of 1970, Czechoslovakia team of 1956, Poland team of 1974-76, USSR team of 1978-82.
Best Player
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Women: Flo HYMAN, Debbie GREEN (USA);
Masae NAKAMURA, Takako TAKAGI,Echiko TAMURA (Japan);
Lang PIN, Xi Liang YAN, Sun JINFANG (China);
Ana MOSER, Fernanda. VENTURINI,Marcia CUNHA (Brazil);
Mireya LUIS, Regla TORRES, Mercedes PEREZ (Cuba);
Hye-Jong CHO, Mee-Hee PARK (Korea);
Luisa FUENTES, Cecilia TAIT, (Peru);
Inna RYSKAL, L. BULDAROVA, Nina SMOLEEVA(Russia).
Men:Karch KIRALY, Steve TIMONS, Gene SEL ZNICK (USA)
Katsutoshi NEKODA, Seiji OKO, Jungo MORITA (JAPAN)
ZORZI, Andrea GARDINI, Lorenzo BERNARDI, Andrea GIANI (ITALY)
Renan DALZOTTO, Bernard RAJZMAN (BRAZIL)
Arno SCHULTZ, Rudi SCHUMAN (GERMANY)
Rafael PASCUAL (SPAIN), Joel DESPAGNE, Diego LAPERA, (CUBA)
Josef MUSIL, Drahog KOUDELKA (CZECH REPUBLIC)
Alain FABIANI, Eric BOUVIER (France)
Dimitar ZLATANOV, Dimitar KAROV (BULGARIA)
Hugo CONTE, Marcos MILINKOVIC (ARGENTINA).
For more information consult http://www.fivb.org
Source: FIVB