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Akari coach voices frustrations over fans' unpleasant messages and remarks

Published Sep 6, 2024 05:20 am

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  • Akari head coach Taka Minowa couldn't help but voice his frustrations after hurtful remarks and unpleasant messages were directed to her players following the team's controversial semis win over the PLDT High Speed Hitters in the PVL Reinforced Conference over the weekend.

Akari head coach Taka Minowa couldn’t help but voice his frustrations after hurtful remarks and unpleasant messages were directed to her players following the team’s controversial semis win over the PLDT High Speed Hitters in the PVL Reinforced Conference over the weekend.

Minowa was aghast with what he saw, heard and read during and after the match.

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“I cannot understand what we were shown and what we were made to hear. My players were booed and continuously insulted during the match,” Minowa wrote on his Instagram story Thursday, Sept. 5.

”I felt this was an insult to volleyball itself.”

The catcalls started when the Chargers got a favorable decision over a net-touch challenge by the High Speed Hitters in the deciding fifth set with PLDT a point shy from the clinching the win.

The call eventually gave Akari a point, and that eventually turned things around, winning the set and the match 17-15.

Moments after the game, commissioner Sherwin Malonzo explained that it was legal, citing the 11.3.2  of FIVB’s rule book which says “Players may touch the post, ropes, or any other object outside the antennae, including the net itself, provided that it does not interfere with the play.”

But some fans still refused to buy Malonzo’s explanation and continued their jeering toward Akari players.

Minowa also questioned why the league did not take action about it.

"I am deeply saddened by the current situation where no one involved in the league has mentioned this issue. It's unacceptable," he said.

"While I have seen the excitement in the venue from the best performances of both teams in the finals many times, it was my first experience seeing the venue heat up due to bashing and booing of a specific player while they were down," he added.

The husband of Filipina volley ace Jaja Santiago is hoping volleyball fans would change their behavior in the future for the sake of the sport.

"Will the young players watching this match still dream of playing on this stage? What about the dignity and responsibility of professional teams? I hope that the league, teams and coaches surrounding the players will think about how to properly develop them," Minowa said.

Minowa said Akari’s loss in the finals was a great lesson for him and for the team, believing the Creamline Cool Smashers played more cohesively and aggressively than the Chargers.

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