The list of men's and women's national volleyball teams will be announced early next month.
According to the Korea Volleyball Association (Chairman Oh Han-nam) on the 18th, the association held a performance improvement committee in turn to discuss how to operate the men's and women's national teams, open recruitment of senior national team trainers and youth national teams, and plans to select senior men's and women's national team candidates.
The Women's Performance Improvement Committee (Chairman Park Mi-hee) held a meeting at the association's office the day before and listened to Fernando Morales, the head coach of the women's national team.
They shared various opinions with the performance improvement committee members over the list of 30 candidates for the national team prepared by Morales.
The Women's Performance Improvement Committee plans to hold another meeting in early April to announce the list of 16 national team call-ups.
Park Mi-hee, chairman of the performance improvement committee, said, "The coach (Morales) and the members went through the process of finding a point of contact," adding, "We are narrowing differences on how to organize 16 people (subject to the call) from the list of 30 candidates."
Chairman Park added, "Since this year's international competition is important, it is difficult to make the national team too young, so we plan to give the overall weight."
The women's national team will play the first week of the Volleyball Nations League (VNL) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from May 29, and the 2025 Korea International Jinju Women's Championship in Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do, from August 12.
Coach Morales arrived in Korea on the 16th and is visiting the regular league stadium to check the players to be selected for the national team, starting with the IBK Industrial Bank-GS Caltex match (Hwasong Gymnasium) on the same day.
Middle blocker Lee Da-hyun (Hyundai Engineering & Construction), who is active in the V League, and setter Kim Dae-eun (Road Corporation), who is impressive in his first year of debut, are also considered candidates for the convocation.
Isanaye Ramirez, the men's national team coach, also attended a meeting of the performance improvement committee held at the site after visiting the 2025 Spring National Middle and High School Volleyball Federation Stadium in Danyang, Chungcheongbuk-do, on the 13th.
Starting with KEPCO-Hyundai Capital (Suwon Gymnasium) on the 16th, coach Ramirez will watch KB Insurance-copyright (Uijeongbu Kyungmin University Gymnasium) on the 18th, Woori Card-Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance (Seoul Jangchung Gymnasium) on the 19th, and Hyundai Capital-OK Savings Bank (Cheonan Yu Gwan-soon Gymnasium) on the 20th.
Coach Ramirez, who visited the stadium on the 16th, closely monitored Heo Soo-bong (Hyundai Capital), the main outside heater of the national team. 온라인카지노
"We want to see who will be able to play at the international level," Ramirez said. "It was good to see that the players are complementing well overall. I want to have more players on the national team roster in the future."
The men's team will compete in the Asian Volleyball Federation (AVC) Challenge Cup in Bahrain from June 10 to 26, and the World Championships in Manila, Philippines from September 3 to 29.
Meanwhile, the women's national team will be convened at the Jincheon National Training Center on May 5, and the men's national team will start training three days later, on the 8th.