By Abby Toralba
AFTER the successful staging of the Invitational Conference last month, the Premier Volleyball League the Premier Volleyball League is gearing up for the season-ending conference, another All-Filipino battle, with the organizing Sports Vision looking at a record 12-team cast.
“We’ll be back to All-Filipino for the third conference,” PVL and organizing Sports Vision president Ricky Palou said, three days after the highly-successful mid-season conference that saw the Kurashiki Ablaze of Japan dethrone the Creamline Cool Smashers in a classic one-game final.
“The FIVB had blocked our request for ITCs (International Transfer Certificates), so there’ll be no Reinforced Conference. But we’ll proceed with the All-Filipino with 12 teams to see action,” he said.
“We’re looking at starting maybe on Oct. 16 or 17 and we will go through until December,” said Palou. “Right now, we’d like to get more playing dates from Araneta and MOA. But of course, subject to availability so most probably we will play our games at PhilSports.”
PVL club teams need to secure ITCs from the FIVB, the governing body of the sport, to be able to sign their foreign guest players to play in the country’s premier league.
Petro Gazz swept Cignal in the best-of-three finals to capture the Reinforced Conference title last year.
