The quest for “more responsibility and less power” is what the President of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) hopes will mark his presidency, he says in an interview with Around the Rings.

Goijman agrees deal with FIVB for partial reimbursement of legal costs incurred in the course of his struggle against corruption in international volleyball

One of Play the Game’s most eagerly anticipated speakers , Mario Goijman, has been prevented from leaving his native Argentina to attend this week’s conference.

Co-operating with the ethical World Volleyball and Beach Volleyball Federation (WVBF) turned out to be a very bad idea for the founder and president of the beach volleyball organisation ProSeries, Emanuele Monduzzi. Only 18 months later, ProSeries was ruined and summoned to court because WVBF did not hold up its end of the agreement, and Monduzzi found himself barred from WVBF tournaments for alleged breaches of ethical principles.

In 2006, the World Volleyball and Beach Volleyball Federation (WVBF) was founded in Copenhagen as an ethical alternative to a corrupt and undemocratic regime in the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB). However, despite a professed commitment to transparency, WVBF will not say who its members are or publish findings from a commissioned ethics report on the breakdown of relations with the beach volley organisation ProSeries last year.

The International Volleyball Federation, FIVB, is preparing to step out of the shadow of its former president Ruben Acosta. In a remarkable statement published on the FIVB website, president Jizhong Wei promises to make good what went wrong during Acosta's reign. No longer shall power be concentrated in the hands of one person, and the next presidential elections will be held in a democratic fashion.

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) is getting ready to shut down a very lucrative financial arrangement that has benefited its former president and current honorary president, Ruben Acosta, for years. FIVB leaders have asked the next World Congress to delete an article in FIVB's financial regulations that says that FIVB members can receive 10 per cent commission on the value of all sponsorship and television contracts they sign on behalf of the organisation.

What critics found unlikely has now turned into fact: Ruben Acosta has decided to leave the presidency of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) at the end of the Beijing Olympics. He says he wants to make room for a new era, but his successor Wei Jizhong will mainly focus on “implementing and accomplishing all the projects already initiated by Dr. Acosta.”