Polish youth (men) national team will play in the Four Countries’ Tournament

In term 16th -18th of November, in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, polish youth (men’s) national team will play in the Tournament of Four countries.

In term 16^th -18^th of November, in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, polish youth (men’s) national team will play in the Tournament of Four countries. The white-and-reds will face Russia, Serbia and Czech Republic. For the team of coach Wiesław Czaja it is going to be the first chase of preparations to the qualification tournament of the European Championships 2013.

On the 18th of December young volleyball players will travel to Austria, where they will play sparring matches against Austrian team in four days time. Afterwards, they will have several days off, but not earlier than after Christmas. Furthermore, they will depart on a qualification tournament to the European Championships to Slovakia, on the 2^nd of January. The eliminations will be held in Nitra (Slovakia), where in term 3^rd -7^th of January, group C, Poland will face Bulgaria, Slovakia, Israel, Portugal and England.

Two teams will promote to the European Championships after the tournament in Nitra. The event in Slovakia is the only chance of our volleyball players to win promotion to the European Championships, held in term 10^th -22^nd of April 2013 in Serbia.

Composition of the polish youth (men’s) national team:

Setters: Krzysztof Bieńkowski, Bartosz Drewniak, Marcin Komenda, Sebastian Matula, Jakub Zwiech

Receivers: Karol Borończyk,  Bartosz Bućko, Wojciech Dawid, Jan Fornal, Paweł Gryc, Paweł Lewandowski, Artur Szalpuk, Rafał Szymura, Aleksander Śliwka

Spikers: Łukasz Pietrzak, Jan Siemiątkowski, Tobiasz Wojtkowski

Middle position: Piotr Badura, Marcin Kania, Bartłomiej Lemański, Aleksander Maziarz, Mikołaj Pilecki, Dariusz Staniszewski, Mariusz Wacek, Łukasz Zimoń

Libero: Kacper Piechocki, Jakub Popiwczak, Jakub Zabłocki

Coach: Wojciech Czaja.