PH volleyball team to avoid social media during Japan training camp

PH Women’s National Volleyball team. Photo by Bong Lozada

National team player Aby Maraño recently set Twitter ablaze after posting several rants directed at her detractors as volleyball squad became the target of negative comments regarding its missed practices.

Maraño, though, said she’s put her emotion-filled tirade to bed, and she looks forward to her team’s training camp in Japan.

“We will bond; there will be no cellphones. It’s for the better because we will be able to focus on the training and eliminate any distraction since we won’t read anything on social media,” said Maraño in Filipino during the team’s media day at Arellano.

“I’ve said what’s supposed to be said, I’ve aired my side and the side of the players. I don’t have to explain anything and why would you explain anything if you didn’t do anything wrong.”

Maraño posted several tweets which were targeted at the team’s detractors who pointed out that practices were missed since players did not show up.

The 24-year-old said they, as a team, will have to talk the issues out once they get to Japan for their training camp.

The national team is set to leave for Japan for their training camp to prepare for the 2017 Southeast Asian Games and the 19th Asian Senior Women’s Volleyball Championships.

“I think we need to talk about the issues among ourselves and that will happen during the team building exercises,” said Maraño. “It will be more than half a year that we will be together in the national team so we need to have great communication among ourselves.”