LINE 2 of the Light Rail Transit Authority buzzed with activity as JiaMorado-de Guzman led three other members of the Alas Pilipinas Women in drumming up support for the FIVB 2025 Men’s World Championship that starts serving exactly a month from yesterday.
“This is a rare opportunity for the country, to host a very prestigious event, the world championship,” said Morado-de Guzman, the venerated “Kapitana” and “Ate” of the Alas Pilipinas Women during the train ride from Recto to Santolan station of LRT-2, the second of such activity supported by the LRTA and its administrator, Atty. Hernando Cabrera.
With Morado-de Guzman, today’s undisputed setter in Southeast Asia, were libero Dawn Macandili-Catindig and outside hitters VanieGandler and AlleiahMalaluan, who gamely interacted with members of the Local Organizing Committee of the FIVB MWCH and the commuting public.
The FIVB MWCH is set from September 12 to 28 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum and SM Mall of Asia, with tickets on sale at the website https://www.philippineswch2025.com/.
“One more month and the Philippines will be on the world volleyball map,” said Philippine National Volleyball Federation president Ramon “Tats” Suzara, who was joined in the LRTA activity by his secretary-general DonaldoCaringal and members of the LOC.
Alas Pilipinas Women head coach Jorge Edson Souza de Brito rallied support for the world championship, saying the 32-nation tournament features the best in the world—he himself has played in the worlds and was a member of the Barcelona 1992 gold medal winning Brazil team.
Unrelenting activities resume at the SM MOA Music Hall from 4 p.m. onwards today, Wednesday, with the “Set Na ‘To! An Electrifying Launch” where official mascots Hataw, Kidlat and Kulog and the world championship trophy will be presented to the public.
Suzara also stressed a unique opening ceremony on Sept. 12 at the MOA Arena with the popular K-Pop group Boy Next Door lighting up the affair.
Ben and Ben will take their turn in the September 28 closing ceremony, where Leila Barros, who mesmerized Filipino fans in the 1990s, will be in attendance—she’s now a senator in her native Brazil.
