The Dominican Republic's sports press on Tuesday slammed the women's national volleyball team after it lost the bronze to Puerto Rico in the Per-Olympic Tournament held last week in northern Mexico city Monterrey.
Daily newspaper Hoy complained of the team's technical and competitive level. Unless the sport's federation, managers and players engage in constructive self criticism "we can confidently say 13 glorious years have come to an end," said the paper.
Cuba won the ticket to the 2008 Beijing Olympics in play at the Monterrey competition, said the paper saying that it had to happen and that the national team was "accelerating down a slippery slope".
Hoy said that if the team remains as it is victories will remain scarce and that players, the federation and fans will all feel increasingly frustrated.
Hoy said that team psychology and changes of routine forced on the players have brought the national team to a "very bitter and tough situation with few solutions to be seen."
Since the 2004 retirement of Francia Jackson, then the team's star accommodator, results had gone from bad to worse because the team had lacked a stable replacement.
Constant change among players and the lack of experienced players are among the reasons that the national team has been buried by rivals, the newspaper said.
Source: Xinhua
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