An official of the Philippine Volleyball Federation yesterday said that Bacolod City is being eyed to host the Asian Youth Boys' Volleyball Championship in May.

Roger Banzuela, chairman of the PVF Coaching Commission, told the DAILY STAR that Bacolod may be given the task of hosting the Asian tournament because it would be too expensive to staged it in Manila. The only problem being foreseen if Bacolod holds the event is that it does not have an international airport that could lessen the hassles of airport transfers, the former PVF president said.

Banzuela said that during a recent workshop in Manila the PVF officials also discussed other possibilities for the hosting in case Bacolod will not be available.

The PVF has also decided to withdraw the hosting task if a marketing group to raise funds for the international hostilities is not formed at least a month before the event, he added. Banzuela said that the Asian tournament will be used by the PVF as a fund-raising activity to pay its $100,000 or about P5 million debt to the international volleyball federation, or FIVB.

The PVF incurred a $75,000 debt to the FIVB as part of the bond for holding a leg of the Women's Grand Prix in 2005 and another $25,000 for the 2004 WGP.

Banzuela said that the debts were incurred because the marketing groups that were supposed to raise funds for the bond backed out only a few weeks before the tournament. "We want to make sure that this does not happen again if we decide to host the Asian Youth event," he added. *CIT

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