Date: Saturday, 11 February 2017
The Eritrean national volleyball federation as launched a local Volleyball competition in collaboration with the Eritrean Commission of Culture and Sports.
The competition attracted a lot of fans and officials who attended the event that featured 9 male team’s and the same number of women’s teams.
Among other organisations who sponsored the 2 week competition were the Sports department of the Ministry of Defence and the Board of Higher Education Institutions.
The tournament was created to help to spread the gospel of the sport across the country and it is considered a good tool to help discover promising players.