September 4, 2025 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — Alas Pilipinas bought a breath of recent air with its largest star in Bryan Bagunas now again in coaching after recovering from a knee harm he sustained early this 12 months.
“I’m actually completely satisfied to be again on the court docket. I wouldn’t say I’m at 100% but, however I’m doing my finest to meet up with the staff,” mentioned Bagunas throughout yesterday’s promotional occasion on the MRT3 station.
“Everyone knows how excessive the extent of competitors is now, so I’m pushing myself to maintain up with them,” he added.
Bagunas’ much-awaited return got here with 9 days to go earlier than the mammoth FIVB Males’s World Championship unfurls on the MOA Area and Sensible Araneta Coliseum.
Marck Espejo, the Nationals’ different chief, mentioned the squad is slowly however certainly getting nearer to its quick objective of being aggressive for the 32-nation occasion scheduled Sept. 12 to twenty-eight.
“As a staff, we nonetheless have a protracted strategy to go, however we’ve additionally come a good distance since we began coaching collectively, particularly throughout our coaching camp in Europe,” mentioned Espejo.
He was referring to their European coaching in Morocco, Romania and Portugal.
Additionally current within the promotional occasion had been Owa Retamar, Kim Malabunga, Steve Rotter, Louie Ramirez, Buds Buddin, Leo Ordiales, Josh Ybañez, Peng Taguibolos, Lucca Mamone, Vince Lorenzo, Jack Kalingking and Lloyd Josafat.
