Chris Schacht
The margin could not have been smaller when the Brazilian Ary Graça was elected president of world volleyball’s governing body, the FIVB, in September 2012: In order for Graça to win in the first round, he needed 103 out of the 205 votes. And he got exactly 103 votes.
But according to a letter circulating in the FIVB, instead of stretching out the hand to his two contenders, the American Doug Beal and the Australian Chris Schacht, the new FIVB president decided to revenge himself, in the first place targeting the Australian who came in third in the election.
In the letter signed by Chris Schacht and distributed in an e-mail on 18 February this year to the volleyball community, Schacht details how, on several occasions during 2013, he was sidelined by the FIVB top, and eventually pressured into stepping down from all his leading volleyball positions.
“I have given a detailed explanation of what I consider to be extraordinary events for me to be removed from international positions in world volleyball without good reason, other than personal gossip that some people didn’t like me,” Schacht writes.
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