FIVB – International Volleyball Federation
FIBA – International Basketball Federation
The FIVB and FIBA, the two world-governing sports organizations for volleyball and basketball, respectively, have contrasting management styles.
Whereas the FIVB adheres to democratic process, the FIBA subscribes to centralized rule with dictatorial tendencies.
Here’s the comparison.
The officials of the FIVB are elected by the Congress with the president heading the leadership.
On the other hand, the FIBA is run Mafiosa-style like a family corporation led by its secretary general Patrick Baumann and secretary general emeritus Borislav Stankovic and others who benefit from the ransacking of the FIBA coffers like Robert “Bob” Elphinston, and many more…..
The FIVB holds its Congress to determine who are its legitimate members, while the Secretariat, which is composed of selective members headed by shadowy ringleader Borislav Stankovic and his lackey Baumann, has absolute authority to pick who it desires as members so long as you have the financial capability to cater to the whims of the inept duo.
Their convoluted motto: Show me the money and you become a FIBA member regardless of anything else.
The FIVB recently held its Congress in Argentina and tackled the issue of whether to expel one of its member, the Philippine Volleyball Federation (PVF) that is the current National Sports Association for volleyball in the Philippines that the Philippine Olympic Committee headed by an aging and overstaying official wanted to dismiss in favor of a bogus organization known “LVPI” that he could easily control.
The democratic style of dealing with issues, with due process available to the aggrieved, is very laudable and speaks highly of the FIVB.
That can hardly be said of the FIBA, which sacked the tradition-steeped Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP), in favor of the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP), whose leader is a business tycoon whose money overflows because of his connection with his Indonesian friend.
Without hearing the side of the BAP, which is part and parcel of any dispute that calls for due process, Baumann, in conspiracy with his aging mentor Stankovic, expelled the BAP and took in the SBP in 2009.
This was done unilaterally as other members of the credibility-challenged FIBA were not involved the process. The dictatorial words of Baumann and Stankovic were the only voices heard.
As it turned out, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Such is the sad state of the FIBA today as members are silently moving around to question the incompetent FIBA leadership, coming as it did on the heels of the FIFA (world-governing body for football) scandal that booted out the corrupt leaders of the football organization.
The purpose of this correspondence is for the non-aligned FIBA members to visualize the stark difference in the running of federation affairs by the FIVB versus the FIBA and for them to finally speak up against the dictatorial and corrupt practices in the FIBA hierarchy so that the latter may yet be cleansed of its tainted image and credibility around the world, so much so that one National Basketball Association team owner, Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks, publicly said that the FIBA is all about money.
The FIBA is not Baumann, Stankovic and their gang alone. But the way it has been run from the top, the FIBA has all the markings of a family corporation whose objective is not to uplift basketball all over the world but rather fill up the pockets of Baumann, Stankovic and their filthy and greedy ilk.
Corruption is not acceptable in the FIBA and everywhere else.
That the Philippine Volleyball Federation (PVF) was invited to attend the FIVB Congress to state its case to all the entire FIVB membership and their fate left to the sentiments of all the members of the organization without any financial considerations speaks well of the democratic process observed by the FIVB leadership.
If only the BAP was accorded the same democratic treatment then Philippine basketball would not have been in shambles today where only money talks and nothing else does.
The BAP was not allowed to present its case and no due process was held primarily because the issue had long been settled in favor of the moneyed SBP for monetary and marketing consideration.
The FIBA Commission would not hear anything about the BAP position and later orchestrated to torpedo the case the BAP filed because the Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) that led to the ouster of the BAP from the FIBA even if it had been a member of FIBA family since 1936.
In a grand conspiracy among Baumann and his gang, the FIBA and SBP, and ultimately the CAS (some of its equally corrupt members are chummy with the FIBA top honcho), the BAP case was dismissed without a thorough study and oral arguments presented by the opposing sides.
The wining and dining simply got the demolition job done against the BAP.
Stranger than fiction, the CAS decision against the BAP was never posted in the former’s website bulletin.
It could not even be ascertain if the CAS knew that the BAP and PBA (professional league) are two different entities.
Though moot and academic, in hindsight, it would have best for the FIBA hierarchy to tackle the issue of basketball leadership in the Philippines in a FIBA Congress and have the entire membership hear out both sides and then determine a solution to the case without any bias to any.
Fairness dictates that the FIBA should have allowed the democratic process to proceed in the BAP vs. SBP case through a Congress and before the entire FIBA family.
This was what was exactly done by the FIVB when it tackles the volleyball leadership in the Philippines before its Congress. How did this problem come about? It is the same scenario that was instigated by the top official of the Philippine Olympic Committee in the past when it dismissed not only the leadership in the BAP but also more than 20 National Sports Associations (NSAs). He set up new organizations and put in people that he could easily control in the positions of various NSAs that opposed his own leadership.
Good day to all members of the FIVB family.
And for the untainted and respectable members of the FIBA organization, stand up and be counted.
Kindly wake up and face the music that the unilateral and politically-motivated decisions of the Secretariat led by Baumann and Stankovic et. al are unacceptable and are slowly eroding the confidence in the organization due to its tainted image, declining credibility and worse of all, issues of alleged corruption.
Good day to everyone. May the good always be triumphant!
Sincerely,
Graham C. Lim
Secretary General, Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP)
Member, National Press Club of the Philippines (NPC)
Cc: FIVB Regional Office: Dr. Ary S. Graca, FIVB President[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
FIBA – International Basketball Federation
The FIVB and FIBA, the two world-governing sports organizations for volleyball and basketball, respectively, have contrasting management styles.
Whereas the FIVB adheres to democratic process, the FIBA subscribes to centralized rule with dictatorial tendencies.
Here’s the comparison.
The officials of the FIVB are elected by the Congress with the president heading the leadership.
On the other hand, the FIBA is run Mafiosa-style like a family corporation led by its secretary general Patrick Baumann and secretary general emeritus Borislav Stankovic and others who benefit from the ransacking of the FIBA coffers like Robert “Bob” Elphinston, and many more…..
The FIVB holds its Congress to determine who are its legitimate members, while the Secretariat, which is composed of selective members headed by shadowy ringleader Borislav Stankovic and his lackey Baumann, has absolute authority to pick who it desires as members so long as you have the financial capability to cater to the whims of the inept duo.
Their convoluted motto: Show me the money and you become a FIBA member regardless of anything else.
The FIVB recently held its Congress in Argentina and tackled the issue of whether to expel one of its member, the Philippine Volleyball Federation (PVF) that is the current National Sports Association for volleyball in the Philippines that the Philippine Olympic Committee headed by an aging and overstaying official wanted to dismiss in favor of a bogus organization known “LVPI” that he could easily control.
The democratic style of dealing with issues, with due process available to the aggrieved, is very laudable and speaks highly of the FIVB.
That can hardly be said of the FIBA, which sacked the tradition-steeped Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP), in favor of the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP), whose leader is a business tycoon whose money overflows because of his connection with his Indonesian friend.
Without hearing the side of the BAP, which is part and parcel of any dispute that calls for due process, Baumann, in conspiracy with his aging mentor Stankovic, expelled the BAP and took in the SBP in 2009.
This was done unilaterally as other members of the credibility-challenged FIBA were not involved the process. The dictatorial words of Baumann and Stankovic were the only voices heard.
As it turned out, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Such is the sad state of the FIBA today as members are silently moving around to question the incompetent FIBA leadership, coming as it did on the heels of the FIFA (world-governing body for football) scandal that booted out the corrupt leaders of the football organization.
The purpose of this correspondence is for the non-aligned FIBA members to visualize the stark difference in the running of federation affairs by the FIVB versus the FIBA and for them to finally speak up against the dictatorial and corrupt practices in the FIBA hierarchy so that the latter may yet be cleansed of its tainted image and credibility around the world, so much so that one National Basketball Association team owner, Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks, publicly said that the FIBA is all about money.
The FIBA is not Baumann, Stankovic and their gang alone. But the way it has been run from the top, the FIBA has all the markings of a family corporation whose objective is not to uplift basketball all over the world but rather fill up the pockets of Baumann, Stankovic and their filthy and greedy ilk.
Corruption is not acceptable in the FIBA and everywhere else.
That the Philippine Volleyball Federation (PVF) was invited to attend the FIVB Congress to state its case to all the entire FIVB membership and their fate left to the sentiments of all the members of the organization without any financial considerations speaks well of the democratic process observed by the FIVB leadership.
If only the BAP was accorded the same democratic treatment then Philippine basketball would not have been in shambles today where only money talks and nothing else does.
The BAP was not allowed to present its case and no due process was held primarily because the issue had long been settled in favor of the moneyed SBP for monetary and marketing consideration.
The FIBA Commission would not hear anything about the BAP position and later orchestrated to torpedo the case the BAP filed because the Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) that led to the ouster of the BAP from the FIBA even if it had been a member of FIBA family since 1936.
In a grand conspiracy among Baumann and his gang, the FIBA and SBP, and ultimately the CAS (some of its equally corrupt members are chummy with the FIBA top honcho), the BAP case was dismissed without a thorough study and oral arguments presented by the opposing sides.
The wining and dining simply got the demolition job done against the BAP.
Stranger than fiction, the CAS decision against the BAP was never posted in the former’s website bulletin.
It could not even be ascertain if the CAS knew that the BAP and PBA (professional league) are two different entities.
Though moot and academic, in hindsight, it would have best for the FIBA hierarchy to tackle the issue of basketball leadership in the Philippines in a FIBA Congress and have the entire membership hear out both sides and then determine a solution to the case without any bias to any.
Fairness dictates that the FIBA should have allowed the democratic process to proceed in the BAP vs. SBP case through a Congress and before the entire FIBA family.
This was what was exactly done by the FIVB when it tackles the volleyball leadership in the Philippines before its Congress. How did this problem come about? It is the same scenario that was instigated by the top official of the Philippine Olympic Committee in the past when it dismissed not only the leadership in the BAP but also more than 20 National Sports Associations (NSAs). He set up new organizations and put in people that he could easily control in the positions of various NSAs that opposed his own leadership.
Good day to all members of the FIVB family.
And for the untainted and respectable members of the FIBA organization, stand up and be counted.
Kindly wake up and face the music that the unilateral and politically-motivated decisions of the Secretariat led by Baumann and Stankovic et. al are unacceptable and are slowly eroding the confidence in the organization due to its tainted image, declining credibility and worse of all, issues of alleged corruption.
Good day to everyone. May the good always be triumphant!
Sincerely,
Graham C. Lim
Secretary General, Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP)
Member, National Press Club of the Philippines (NPC)
Cc: FIVB Regional Office: Dr. Ary S. Graca, FIVB President[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]