FVV — Federación Venezolana de Voleibol

What is the FVV?

The Federación Venezolana de Voleibol (FVV) is the national federation for volleyball in Venezuela. Its site describes it in these words: “Somos la entidad oficial encargada de regular y promover el deporte del voleibol en Venezuela” — the official body charged with regulating and promoting volleyball in the country — and adds that since its foundation it “ha sido el organismo rector de este deporte en el país”.^[1] Its news of 2025 covers indoor volleyball for men and women and beach volleyball.^[2]

The Comité Olímpico Venezolano includes the “Federación Venezolana de Voleibol” among the “Federaciones inscritas en el Comité Olímpico Venezolano”, with José Vásquez as president and [email protected] and @fvenvoleibol as contacts.^[5]

Its legal form is set by Venezuelan sports law. The Ley Orgánica de Deporte, Actividad Física y Educación Física, signed on 15 August 2011, defines national sports federations as “entidades de derecho privado para la promoción y desarrollo del deporte y la actividad física con alcance y carácter nacional” (Article 48) — private-law bodies for the promotion and development of sport with national reach.^[6]

What does the FVV govern or do?

Article 49 of the 2011 sports law sets out the attributions of every Venezuelan national federation: to direct and supervise the activity of its discipline, to issue the technical and ethical norms of the discipline, to exercise disciplinary power, to promote the training and development of athletes, to organise competitions, to call up professional athletes for international representation, to recognise the members of national teams, to adopt its statutes and regulations, and to render public account of its management of funds.^[6]

The news items on its site, the latest dated February 2025, concern its national teams. In February 2025 it reported the start of permanent training camps (“concentración permanente”) for its women’s and men’s squads,^[2] and it entered beach volleyball pairs in continental qualifying.^[4] It reported on 28 February 2025 that its board was working “de forma articulada con el Ministerio de Deporte, Instituto Nacional de Deportes y Comité Olímpico” — in coordination with the sports ministry, the Instituto Nacional de Deportes (IND) and the Olympic committee — within a project it calls “Por amor al volley”.^[3]

Internationally, the federation’s site places Venezuela’s national-team representation in competitions organised by the FIVB, the world body, and by the South American confederation, the CSV.^[1]

When was the FVV founded and where is it based?

The federation states that it “Fue fundada el 29 de junio de 1937 y desde entonces ha sido el organismo rector de este deporte en el país” — it was founded on 29 June 1937 and has governed the sport in Venezuela since.^[1]

Its site, whose latest news items date from February 2025, lists a board headed by José Manuel Vásquez as president (alternate Tirso Bastardo), with Daniel Antonio Moreno as vice-president (alternate Yamileth Piña), Yeivic Jimenez as secretary general (alternate Aquiles Seija) and Maria Elena Cohen as treasurer (alternate Adrian Carpio).^[1]

In 2025 its national-team camps were held in Caracas: the men’s permanent camp opened in February 2025 at the Instituto Nacional de Deportes,^[3] and the women’s permanent camp, reported on 13 February 2025, at the Gimnasio Gastón Portillo.^[2]

Under Article 48 of the 2011 sports law, a body’s “constitución y funcionamiento como federación deportiva nacional, deberá ser previamente autorizado por el Directorio del Instituto Nacional de Deportes”.^[6]

How is the FVV recognised?

International. The federation’s site, describing Venezuela’s national teams, says that they “representan a nuestro país en las competencias internacionales organizadas por la Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol (CSV) y la Federación Internacional de Voleibol (FIVB)”.^[1] The CSV is the South American confederation of the FIVB. The federation’s own account of its beach volleyball qualification for the 2025 Junior Pan American Games describes a CSV-organised U-23 qualifying championship in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in which the CSV allowed more than one pair per country and the FVV entered additional pairs.^[4]

COV. The Comité Olímpico Venezolano includes the Federación Venezolana de Voleibol in its directory of national federations.^[5]

Venezuelan state. Under Article 48 of the 2011 sports law, a national federation’s constitution and operation require the prior authorisation of the IND’s board.^[6] In February 2025 the federation reported working in coordination with the sports ministry, the IND and the COV, and credited the “respaldo total” of those authorities as it worked toward what it called “la ruta olímpica 2025-2028”.^[3][4]

What does the FVV organise?

National teams. On 28 February 2025 the federation reported that nineteen athletes had begun the men’s permanent camp at the IND in Caracas, a preselection spanning the U-17, U-19, U-21 and U-23 categories under head coach Iván Nieto. Their 2025 programme named the South American U-17 Championship, the Bolivarian Games and the U-19 and U-21 Pan American Cups, “en paso firme hacia la ruta olímpica Los Ángeles 2028”.^[3] On 13 February 2025 it had reported the start of the women’s permanent camp at the Gimnasio Gastón Portillo.^[2]

Beach volleyball. The federation reported in February 2025 that Venezuela had secured what it called a “doble clasificación histórica” — a men’s and a women’s pair — for beach volleyball at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games, through the CSV’s U-23 qualifier in Cochabamba, where the men’s pair won the title.^[4]

National competition. Article 49 of the 2011 sports law gives each national federation the attributions to organise the competitions of its discipline and to recognise the members of its national teams.^[6]

Who are its members?

The federation works through affiliated associations. On 9 February 2025 its site posted an item headed “1er evento de entrega de Nacional Material Deportivo a las asociaciones afiliadas a la FVV” — the first national handover of sports equipment to the associations affiliated to it.^[2]

The 2011 sports law sets the structure of that membership. National federations “están constituidas por los integrantes de las asociaciones deportivas estadales” — they are made up of the members of the state sports associations (Article 48) — and the state associations are “entidades deportivas de derecho privado, integradas por los clubes para la promoción de una disciplina deportiva” (Article 44): private-law bodies made up of the clubs that promote a sport.^[6]

Its national-team preselections draw players across age categories from U-17 to U-23.^[3] The federation is in turn one of the national federations listed by the Comité Olímpico Venezolano.^[5]