Friends Volleyball Club
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Friends Volleyball Club is a volleyball
club based in Puduvayal
, Tamil Nadu
, India
. It was founded in 1986 by Jayakumar Krishnan. He was then a student of Ramanathan Chettiar Higher Secondary School in Puduvayal
. This club is promoting volleyball
and athletics
in this region. This club conducts state level volleyball tournament
s every year. Some of the best players in the country participated in these tournaments and represented this prestigious club.
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
club based in Puduvayal
Puduvayal
Puduvayal is a City in Sivaganga district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is a small town located in the Chettinad region of the Sivaganga district. On road it is 12 km away from Karaikudi and 21 km away from Aranthangi This is the native place of up coming Director Ashok kumar....
, Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. It was founded in 1986 by Jayakumar Krishnan. He was then a student of Ramanathan Chettiar Higher Secondary School in Puduvayal
Puduvayal
Puduvayal is a City in Sivaganga district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is a small town located in the Chettinad region of the Sivaganga district. On road it is 12 km away from Karaikudi and 21 km away from Aranthangi This is the native place of up coming Director Ashok kumar....
. This club is promoting volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
and athletics
Sport
A Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...
in this region. This club conducts state level volleyball tournament
Tournament
A tournament is a competition involving a relatively large number of competitors, all participating in a sport or game. More specifically, the term may be used in either of two overlapping senses:...
s every year. Some of the best players in the country participated in these tournaments and represented this prestigious club.
List of international players who represented the club
- Natarajan J (Senior India)
- SivabalanSivabalanSivabalan is a Volley ball player from Tamilnadu, India. He has played for both junior and senior national volley ball teams. He is currently the captain of Chennai Customs volleyball team, Chennai. He earlier played for Indian Overseas Bank, Chennai. He hails from Sivaganga district, Tamilnadu. He...
(Senior India) - Kumaran (Senior India)
- SundaramSundaramMugur Sundar is a popular dance choreographer in South Indian cinema. He has directed more than 10,000 dance sequences for various south-Indian films. Sundar was born in Mugur, a village located in Mysore district, Karnataka. He has three sons, Prabhu Deva, Raju Sundaram and Nagendra Prasad, who...
(Senior India) - Ramamoorthy (Beach VolleyballBeach volleyballBeach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....
) - Nickson (Beach Volleyball)
- Sayee Krishnan (Senior India)
- Manoharan (Senior India)
List of players who represented the club and Tamil Nadu state
- Raj Mohan
- Ilamaran (Represented Indian RailwaysIndian RailwaysIndian Railways , abbreviated as IR , is a departmental undertaking of Government of India, which owns and operates most of India's rail transport. It is overseen by the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India....
for World Railways Games) - Uma Rajan