According to the rules for changing sports citizenship, Puerto Rico is the opposite Gabriel Garcia He has at least three of the five requirements for his application to change his card to the United States Federation for approval. These rules also specify that if the change is approved, the player will have to wait two years to play for his new team, so the islander will miss playing this year in the World Championship.
The three requirements that García meets are to have a US passport, to have USA Volleyball agree for the player to make the change, and to pay a fee ($24,000) to complete the process. Administrative.
The condition could be the fourth of the five listed in the FIVB besides Garcia: his residence status in the United States.
The only requirement that Garcia does not have, according to the process guidelines published on the FIVB website, is to agree to Puerto Rican Volleyball Federation (FPV) for the desired change.
This unfulfilled requirement is what will lead tomorrow, Wednesday, to the player, the FPV and the American volleyball player participating in an argument hearing and actually summoned by the FIVB Executive Committee, which will help resolve the issue with the approval or refusal to change the sports citizenship.
The Executive Committee has complete discretion to decide the case, as long as it listens to the arguments of the FPV opposing Garcia’s change of citizenship.
In addition to the fact that Carolinan Garcia is a US citizen by birth, US volleyball accepted the exchange request because he must have had the $24,000 worth of the exchange request, because otherwise the process would not have begun, Garcia could have resided in the United States on the basis of studying in Provo, Utah, from 2018 to 2021.
Garcia was a star at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Utah. Garcia graduated in 2017 from St. Francis School in Carolina, and was initially recruited by Cal Baptist University in California. That institution’s volleyball program disappeared in 2017. Brigham Young University recruited him starting in 2018.
The FIVB considers residency when “the applicant shows evidence of two years of continuous residency in the new FIVB country”. The Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) specifies that accommodation is limited to “where the player lives and sleeps or is accessible for most days of the year”.
The approval of your application depends on the opposition of the FPV and the arguments presented by the participants in the hearing; FPV President, Cesar Trabanco, Senior Vice President and Attorney Jose Markswatch and also Attorney Joanna Bocanegra.
FPV’s arguments are aimed at the importance that García has to the Puerto Rican national team he has represented for the past ten years, including 2021 in which García was vital for the national team to win the Norceca Championship and qualify for the 2022 World Cup.
The Norceca Association, to which FPV and USA Volleyball belong, ruled in favor of FPV for rejecting the requested player change.
However, if authorized, Garcia will not be able to play for the United States until the summer of 2024, as defined in Section 5.5 of the FIVB Regulations Handbook, 3 November 2020, which details the consequences for the player on demand. Change from one selection to another. He details that he will have to wait two years to start playing. If the case is a player who has not played for the selection of his original association, he can start playing immediately
This data attracts attention because if García is licensed, he will miss the 2022 World Cup. He will be eligible to play in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
