ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle will train in a limited composition during the break between the PlusLiga tournament, caused by the World Cup tournament. The team is missing 6 players. – It is hard to do anything in such a small group – sais coach of ZAKSA Krzysztof Stelmach.
- There has been a long break in PlusLiga caused by the World Cup tournament. How will the team work look like now?
- After the match in Bydgoszcz the players were given a week off. Afterwards the trainings will start. However, only six players will participate. Paweł Zagumny, Michał Ruciak and Patryk Czarnowski are preparing to the World Cup. Also Guillame Samica, Antonin Rouzier and Sergiej Kapelus went on their national team’s training camps. It is hard to do anything in such a small group. We will spend a lot of time at the gym. Probably we will also organize some kind of a training with the Young PlusLiga team.
- Because of the absence of so many players it is difficult to think about ideal preparation to the next phase of the season. We do not even have possibility to perform control matches.
- In November we will not play at all. We have a match planned for the 2nd of December with AZS Częstochowa in Oleśno. However, there will also be foreigners with us then. French national team will start its qualification tournament to the Olympic Games on the 27th of November. Our national team will finish its tournament in Japan on the 4th of December.
- Such a long break in the tournament is not good for developing the condition of the team.
- There is no use in complaining. The national team fights for promotion to the Olympic Games. It is the first opportunity to get it. We have been given a chance to play it the World Cup and we have to use it.
- Let’s get back to the PlusLiga tournament. ZAKSA is the only team which has not been defeated. Seven victories. Set of points. No one could have expected this.
- We have no calculations, counting points or listening to others. We play every match the best we can. Each match is equally important for us and we do our best in order to prepare the best we can.
- Five weeks break it is a long time. The teams have to build their form from the beginning. It is a little as if the tournament in December started from the beginning.
- It looks as if the league had two stages. Before the match in Bydgoszcz I told boys it would be great to win as we would have a set of points in the second part of the tournament. In December everything will start again.
