Athletes have made explicit accusations against the print, broadcast and media outlets, saying they have damaged the popularity of volleyball, with most of its focus on football.
In their interview with Emirates Today, they called for rehabilitating volleyball by giving it more light and providing important media coverage so that it does not retreat further, so that its practitioner base, which has shrunk so much, is not a real threat to the future of the game. On the game «Ramadan» only. They stressed that the clubs spend large sums of money to hire coaches and foreign players, in addition to providing important financial support for national players, but the lack of appropriate media coverage prevents them from receiving proper attention.
The Federation of Aircraft organizes three annual tournaments starting from the Vice President's Cup (the opening of the tournaments), then the General League Championship, while the season concludes with the President's Cup, and these tournaments do not find enough attention from different media, especially as the meetings are held on the weekend. In conjunction with the matches of the Arabian Gulf Football League.
Al-Nasr's team supervisor, Ahmed Al-Janahi, said that the media treat collective sports, other than football, as "dead competitions," expressing his dismay at the great ignorance that the game finds, causing the street to not know the details of the matches or when. Even the position of clubs and external posts.
He called on the media to review their accounts and give volleyball the attention they deserve.
"Football has become a concern," he said. "All the media only highlight it, and you don't find news on the pages of volleyball. No one cares."
He pointed out that he does not want to accuse the media of causing the decline in the popularity of volleyball, but wants to point out the existence of deficiencies, and said: «clubs spend significant sums of money to hire coaches and foreign players and pay a lot of money to the national players, yet you do not find the slightest interest From the visual media, not even on the last pages of the dailies. ”
Abdullah Al Darmaki, vice-chairman of Al Ain Sports Club and volleyball supervisor, said that the game in the whole world is starting to take its place more than the rest of the sports, except in the UAE, where it is falling back every season. Adequate appreciation from various media, especially television.
Al-Darmaki said that in the presence of three official television organizations, each with more than three channels of sports, the plane does not find enough appreciation, not even in the coverage of important games to reflect the sports street. "This disregard has badly damaged the plane," he said. "Officials should pay attention to this."
Al-Jazeera's team supervisor, Mohamed Mubarak Ahmed, said that the lack of media attention caused the game's popularity to drop dramatically. "The momentum of the plane in the (NAS) tournament, which lasts 10 days, does not get it in the whole season over eight months".
Mubarak pointed out that the Volleyball Federation also has a major role in the dissemination of the game and provide the media with information, said: «As a former player I am interested in news of the game in the world and the Arab world and the Gulf, and if you look for information on the site of the UAE Federation you do not find it, and it is difficult "To know the results of other club matches, the association must intervene and do its duty to the game."
It is an individual jurisprudence, that an amateur photographer tracks all the matches of the youth volleyball team, and transmitted through his personal account on the social networking site «Instagram», through the feature of live broadcasting. A source told «Emirates Today» that the role played by this amateur person helps in spreading the game on an external level, especially as he has followers of fans of the game from outside the country.
Mubarak Hareb: The responsibility of spreading the game is borne by everyone
The board member of the volleyball federation, Mubarak Harib Zuweid, defended the federation and said that he should not be held responsible for the game of the volleyball alone, but should be held by everyone without exception, the federation, clubs and media alike, demanding the media To try to give volleyball more time in its programs and on the pages of newspapers to regain its position.
“Clubs should also promote the matches through their social media accounts and reveal the date and venue of the matches, so that the public can know that,” Hareb said. The right to broadcast matches and follow-up events ».
He suggested that all the federations of the collective games meet with the General Authority for Sport in the presence of sports councils, to develop a mechanism to divide the media coverage of all competitions, and said: «There must be a limitation of the days of the games for each game, so that tournaments in various sports get their share of media attention» .
The Volleyball Federation organizes three tournaments in the season, starting with the Vice President's Cup, then the league championship and the final tournament of the President's Cup.