For the first time since 1977, a participating Philippine women's volleyball team failed to bag a medal in the Southeast Asian Games. The ignominy goes to the team formed and sent by Larong Volleyball sa Pilipinas, Inc. to the 2015 Singapore SEAG.
The poor and embarrassing performance of the volleyball team could have been averted if POC did not disrupt the volleyball program of Philippine Volleyball Federation. Philippine Amihan and Bagwis were already practicing for four months when POC entered the picture and created LVPI. LVPI officials had the gall to demand control over Philippine volleyball when PVF already had a program backed up by two of the biggest companies in the country. Romasanta had the audacity to become the president of a volleyball organization when he hardly knows anything about the sport.
Aside from failing to advance to the medal round, what makes the performance of the Philippine women's volleyball team shameful is the protest that it submitted to SEAG organizers regarding the true gender of Indon player Aprilia Manganang. The protest reeks of shocking ignorance and outright shamelessness. The protest reveals the lack of class and common sense of LVPI officials. The entire nation needlessly became the laughing stock of the tournament with that baseless protest.
Shame on all of us !
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