{"id":17570,"date":"2020-10-29T19:39:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T19:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\/?p=17570"},"modified":"2020-10-29T19:39:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T19:39:43","slug":"tava-lauds-hajij-for-winning-cavb-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tava-lauds-hajij-for-winning-cavb-presidency","title":{"rendered":"TAVA LAUDS HAJIJ FOR WINNING CAVB PRESIDENCY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author: <i class=\"fa fa-user\"><\/i>MBONILE BURTON<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> TANZANIA Amateur Volleyball Association (TAVA) has lauded the newly elected president of CAVB-African Volleyball Confederation (CAVB), Bouchra Hajij.<\/p>\n<p>Hajij is the first woman to be elected to lead the continent\u2019s supreme volleyball body.<\/p>\n<p>The association\u2019s secretary general, Alfred Selengia, told the \u2018africa-press\u2019 in Dar es Salaam yesterday that they have received her presidency with positive attitude and looking forward to cooperate well with the new leadership for the sport\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p>Selengia said: \u201cEvery leader has visions and good intentions to deliver; we believe Hajij will come up with more good ideas and plans to continue with where the former team has reached.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe congratulate all elected leaders too and we assure them maximum cooperation. We worked so closely with former team and they have done great job to our sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Selengia, among the association\u2019s\u00a0 successes in previous regime, include the participation of Tanzania in the Women U-20 volleyball African championship in Kenya in 2018, Youth African Games Algeria 2018, Women African Continental Cup U21 in Cairo where Tanzania qualified for the Volleyball World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Tanzania has also been given chances to host the Zonal Beach volleyball qualifiers and the second phase of beach volleyball Olympic qualifiers for men which will be held in Dar es Salaam in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Hajij has been elected as the 5th president of CAVB at the Congress held online from 24th-26th October 2020, to become the first female president of the continental body.<\/p>\n<p>New boss, who also presides the\u00a0 Royal Moroccan Volleyball Federation, FIVB Executive vice president and CAVB Executive vice president and Board member, recorded 42 votes, with incumbent\u00a0 Amr Elwani gathering 12 Votes.<\/p>\n<p>Due to travel restrictions brought by the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 Congress was held through virtual conference lasting over 24-hours attended by 54 CAVB delegates\u00a0 in 3-days, notably over 15-hours spent on day two before the new president was announced.<\/p>\n<p>Hajij, now has until 2024 to transform Beach Volleyball and Volleyball (Indoor) in Africa before the next Elective Congress at federation that formed in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>She became the first ever African woman to be elected as FIVB Board of Administration member in the FIVB Board elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Elwani served volleyball in Africa for 24-years including 19-years as president of the Confederation and FIVB Executive vice-president<\/p>\n<p>CAVB vice presidents and their zones are Zone I: Adnan BAKBAK \u2013 Libya, Zone II: Rodrigues Antonio Carlos \u2013 Cape Verde, Zone III: Casimir Sawadogo- Burkina Faso, Zone IV: Dokony Adiker Idriss \u2013 Chad, Zone V: Waithaka Kioni \u2013 Kenya, Zone VI: Fredreck Ndlovu \u2013 Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: MBONILE BURTON AfricaPress-Tanzania: TANZANIA Amateur Volleyball Association (TAVA) has lauded the newly elected president of CAVB-African Volleyball Confederation (CAVB), Bouchra Hajij. Hajij is the first woman to be elected to lead the continent\u2019s supreme volleyball body. The association\u2019s secretary general, Alfred Selengia, told the \u2018africa-press\u2019 in Dar es Salaam yesterday that they have received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[6401,991,989],"class_list":["post-17570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-bouchra-hajij","tag-cavb","tag-tava"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TAVA LAUDS HAJIJ FOR WINNING CAVB PRESIDENCY - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"TANZANIA Amateur Volleyball Association (TAVA) has lauded the newly elected president of CAVB-African Volleyball Confederation\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tava-lauds-hajij-for-winning-cavb-presidency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TAVA LAUDS HAJIJ FOR WINNING CAVB PRESIDENCY\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"TANZANIA Amateur Volleyball Association (TAVA) has lauded the newly elected president of CAVB-African Volleyball Confederation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tava-lauds-hajij-for-winning-cavb-presidency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-29T19:39:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/42db676373df64c977726f5fa9448172.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"724\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tava-lauds-hajij-for-winning-cavb-presidency#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tava-lauds-hajij-for-winning-cavb-presidency\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"TAVA LAUDS HAJIJ FOR WINNING CAVB PRESIDENCY\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-29T19:39:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tava-lauds-hajij-for-winning-cavb-presidency\"},\"wordCount\":427,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tava-lauds-hajij-for-winning-cavb-presidency#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/42db676373df64c977726f5fa9448172.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Bouchra Hajij\",\"CAVB\",\"TAVA\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tava-lauds-hajij-for-winning-cavb-presidency#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tava-lauds-hajij-for-winning-cavb-presidency\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/tava-lauds-hajij-for-winning-cavb-presidency\",\"name\":\"TAVA LAUDS HAJIJ FOR WINNING CAVB PRESIDENCY - 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