Historic ticket
On August 31, the Vietnam Volleyball Federation (VFV) received an official confirmation email from the International Volleyball Federation ( FIVB ) that Vietnam is the last team to win a ticket to the 2025 FIVB World Championship - a tournament considered the World Cup of volleyball.
This is a historic ticket for Vietnamese volleyball in general and Vietnamese women's volleyball in particular. After participating in the FIVB Challenge Cup of women's volleyball world twice in 2023 and 2024, the Vietnamese girls have another milestone in the international arena.
The 2025 Women's Volleyball World Championship will take place from August 22 to September 7, 2025. It is one of the most prestigious tournaments in the world for women's volleyball, alongside the Volleyball Nations League.
Next year, the tournament will have 32 teams competing. In addition to the Vietnamese women's volleyball team, the remaining teams participating are Serbia, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Kenya, Egypt, Cameroon, Thailand, China, Japan, Turkey, the Netherlands, Italy, the Dominican Republic, the United States, Canada, Poland, Germany, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Puerto Rico, France, Cuba, Bulgaria, Sweden, Mexico, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain and Greece.
Opportunity to rub
According to the latest update on the FIVB rankings, the Vietnamese women's volleyball team is ranked 33rd in the world. When participating in the 2025 World Championship, thinking about achievements is impossible for coach Nguyen Tuan Kiet's team.
However, having a place to participate in this arena will help the Vietnamese volleyball girls meet top opponents and learn at the most prestigious playground for women's volleyball in the world.
Coach Nguyen Tuan Kiet once shared: "Only by competing with stronger teams in terms of level, both domestic and international, will our players discover many things. There was an opinion that players can be stunted when they are not mentally stable before competing, but I think that is not true. Players compete and gain experience, plus adjustments from the coaching staff, to accumulate for themselves the things they lack."
Volleyball is a direct competition sport. Therefore, through each tournament, facing many opponents at different levels of expertise will help Vietnamese players gradually gain experience for themselves.
According to plan, after the end of VTV Cup 2024 (August 31), the Vietnamese women's volleyball team will finish its mission this year and complete professional training.
Coach Nguyen Tuan Kiet said that he has grasped the preliminary schedule of professional preparation for 2025. Next year, he and his students will participate in as many tournaments as in 2023, including the 3 most important tournaments: SEA Games 33, the World Championship in Thailand and the Asian Women's Championship.
With this schedule, it is likely that the Vietnamese women's volleyball team will gather early to have thorough professional preparation, ready to aim for specific goals next year.
