OPEN LETTER TO FIVB AND AVC OFFICIAL SHANRIT WONGPRASERT

courtesy of sports.inquirer.net

Dear Mr. Shanrit Wongprasert,

Greetings from the Philippines.

I am extremely disappointed that you allow yourself to be used to validate the very existence of Larong Volleyball sa Pilipinas Inc. (LVPI). You were quoted by Philippine media saying that Philippine volleyball has progressed through LVPI. With all due respect, just what progress are you referring to ? Do you call the formation of national teams through phone calls at the airport "progress" ?

You have built a good reputation through the years with what you did and continue to do with volleyball in Thailand. From being perennial losers to the Philippines in SEAG, you have managed to put Thailand at 13th best in the world. So I am really surprised that you seem not to know the meaning of the word "progress" when applied to Philippine volleyball.

Please protect your good name by distancing yourself from LVPI and its people. You know very well that FIVB itself is being put in a spot with the acceptance of LVPI as a member. You know very well that you are having a hard time answering the letter I sent you last Dec. 3, 2015. So hard a time, in fact, that you deem it best not to send a response.

Filipino sports officials are the worst in the world. Even your good friend, FIVB Development Commission officer Tats Suzara was ordered by the Bureau of Immigrations (BID) to pay more than half a million pesos for violating immigration laws with his Philippine Superliga.

Please do not allow these unscrupulous sports officials to tarnish your good name and bring you to perdition.

Thank you.

Eric