Lyubomir Ganev was re-elected as president of the Bulgarian Volleyball Federation.

During the general assembly of the federation, held at the 'Vitosha' hotel in the capital, Ganev received the majority of the delegates' votes and thus defeated his only rival for the post, Ivan Seferinov, president of the 'Slavia' Volleyball Club. Seferinov failed to enter the Board of Directors of the federation during the General Assembly vote. Thus, the possibility for him to have a vote for the president of Bulgarian volleyball was eliminated.

For the 58-year-old Ganev, this will be his second and final term at the helm of the federation. He was first elected on March 13, 2020, when he succeeded Dancho Lazarov in the position. Prior to that, Ganev was vice-president of the federation for nearly a decade.

Petar Kanev was elected as first vice-president of the BFV, and Iliya Dyankov is the second vice-president. Borislav Kyosev, Zhivko Zhelev, and Ivaylo Konstantinov are vice-presidents.
Petar Kanev received the most votes for the Board of Directors – 105.

Ganev remained with one less vote. The other members are Zhivko Zhelev, Stanislav Nikolov, Iliya Dinkov, Ivaylo Konstantinov, Borislav Kyosev, Ognyan Tomov, Aleksandar Popov, Deyan Ninov, Krasimir Iliev, Sasho Yovkov, Nikolay Ivanov, Dimo Tonev, Aleksandar Ivanov, Velislav Yonev, and Milko Bagdasarov. Krasimir Iliev was elected in his absence, as the head of Varna volleyball is abroad.The new faces on the Board of Directors are Deyan Ninov, Dimo Tonev, and Milko Bagdasarov.

Evgeni Ivanov-Pushkata, who resigned two months ago as head of the 'Children and Youth Volleyball' commission, David Davidov, who previously withdrew his candidacy, and Aleksandar Madzhurov, president of VC 'DEYA Volley' Burgas, were dropped from the old Board of Directors.
BFV presidential candidate Ivan Seferinov failed to gather even the votes of the clubs that had requested an extraordinary General Assembly convening during the summer..
Former men's national team coach Martin Stoev also gathered fewer than 40 votes.
"We have approved the chairmen of the most important commissions."Zhivko Zhelev remains chairman of the National Volleyball League.

Aleksandar Vinaliev is chairman of the referee committee.He has also been proposed as a member of the referee committee of the European Confederation CEV.David Davidov became chairman of the Children and Youth Volleyball Commission.He will always have a place in our sport, and it doesn't matter that he is not a member of the Board of Directors. He will most likely remain chairman of the marketing commission as well.

All three now have the full opportunity to work. Immediately after the registration in the Commercial Register will be the first meeting of the Board of Directors. All members will be invited to the Supercup matches, which are on October 12 and 13. If we register by then, we will gather there for the first time.We have appointed two new employees in the federation in the "Children and Youth Volleyball" department.There we have over 2500 matches per year. Our goal is for all commissions to work like the National Volleyball League, which is the best developing and raised the level of work, which the other commissions failed to follow," Ganev told reporters after the end of the meeting.

"A decision on the coach of the women's national team will be made by the new Board of Directors. Lorenzo Micelli's contract has expired. Each of the new members will be able to propose candidacies and then a decision will be made on who will be the new coach. This is also valid for all coaches in the youth categories, where there are none yet," specified the old-new president of the Bulgarian Volleyball Federation.

Photos: Nikolay Varadinov