The Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa has come forward to give a high performance centre for the Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation and their players . The’ Volleyball House’ is a dream for SLVB and the players and this is a much needed premises for their training.
The agreement to give the new Volleyball House was signed between SLVB Secretary A.S Nalaka and Sports Director General Amal Edirisooriya at the National Youth Services Centre Maharagama last Saturday during the Dialog President’s Gold Cup tournament.
The new Volleyball House situated at Dadalla Sport Complex Galle with all facilities for the players and this is ideal for the Volleyball Federation to conduct their pool practices as well as tournaments. It is a high performance centre to get all requirements. At the moment volleyball practices are at Torrington but they have their own place now with all facilities including swimming pool and wooden floor courts for the training. Actually this is the first time Volleyball Federation got this type of completed sport complex with more infrastructure facilities . The National sport volleyball will get a big boost with this new Volleyball House. The Sport Minister Namal Rajapaksa said volleyball is our National sport and President’s Gold Cup is the most coveted trophy . I am glad to see corporates like Dialog continue to support the sport . I have especially commissioned a high performance centre for volleyball in Galle to help further development of this sport . Volleyball has a 104 year history and hope more success from the National sport in future with this new high performance centre ‘Volleyball House’ which will also help to produce more professional players as well as more international achievements added Sports Minister.
SLVB Secretary A.S Nalaka said Volleyball House agreement already signed and we expected to move to Volleyball House to commence our National pool practices and Beach Volleyball practices from this new place which will be opened by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa next month . Especially we have difficulty at Torrington Place to continue pool practices as many other sports also use the same courts . However with this new Volleyball House with all facilities our players will get their pool training continuously. In addition most of the tournaments will also be conducted from their preliminary rounds and only finals will be in Colombo either NYSC Maharagama or Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium. We also thank Sport Minister Namal Rajapaksa and the Sport Ministry for getting this Volleyball House which is a much needed one for volleyball development added SLVB Secretary A.S Nalaka.
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