NORCECA Volleyball Confederation President Visits Belize

The President of the North America, Central America, and the Caribbean Volleyball Federation is in town. Belize is playing host to the Central American Volleyball Federation’s general assembly, and he’s here to chair the event over the weekend. Today, he took some time to meet with the Prime Minister, the Minister of Tourism, and the Minister of Sports to push for more investment in Belize’s national volleyball team. We had the opportunity to chat with him about how those discussions went. Here’s what he had to say.

 

Cristobal Hoffiz, President, NORCECA Volleyball Federation

“I Am taking advantage of the visit; we already visit the minister of tourism. We visited the Prime Minister of Belize, and we are looking forward this afternoon to visit the minister of sports. We are requesting the government to provide more support to the Belize National Volleyball Federation. We are doing our part. We have provided in the past couple of years volleyball floors. You have seen here the surface. We have provided three and we are prepared to provide more. But we have one problem, we provide the floors and we don’t have the place to put the floors in order to be used for volleyball. This is why we are visiting the government, different agencies, and ministries, especially the prime minister. We explain to them the problem we are having. As you know, sport is the most significant and most important tool to fight drugs, dealers, crime. It would take the kids out of the street and bring them to a sport and create useful citizens in Belize. How do we achieve that? Explaining our work, providing the necessary tool and looking forward that the government also provides the other part. We cannot do everything. We can do most important part, provide the tools to develop the sports. I cannot come here and say let us build a venue on that piece of land. I don’t own land here. We need to create the know how to the government to let them know their responsibility is that we need their support to join ventures and make it happen.”