World Cup: impressive victory against Tunisia at the start of murderous tournament – Polish Radio

The most effective player was rafał buszek – 15 points. On Wednesday white-and-red face with the Russians.

Meeting with Tunisia was a “warm-up”. It was important to win quickly because of the much lower-listed rivals need to save energy – the coach said Stephane Antiga.

White-red in any of the three sets they had no problems. It made it very difficult opponents serve Bartosz Kurek, and the block was doing a great Matthew Bieniek.

 

Poland – Tunisia – 3: 0 (25:17, 25:15, 25:20)

 

Poland: Grzegorz Łomacz Bartosz Kurek (13), Matthew Bieniek (6), Piotr Nowakowski (3), rafał buszek (15), Matthew Mika (10), Paul Zatorski (L) – David Konarski, Fabian Drzyzga (1), Michał Kubiak (6), Charles Ear (2), Artur Szalpuk (1).

Tunisia: Mohamed Ali Ben Othmen MILADI (3) Marouane M’rabet, Marouen Garcia (9), Elyes Karamosli (11), Skander Ben Tara (1), Omar Agrebi (6), Tayeb Korbosli (L) – Hamza Nagg (1), Ismail Moala (3), Haykel Jerbi , Hichem Kaabi (1), Nabil MILADI (1).

 

After the match, said:

 

Stephane Antiga (coach of the Polish national team): “The main thing is that we won in three sets. We came to the meeting seriously and did not make too many mistakes. As a result, I could also do a lot of changes and gave play almost all volleyball players. It was the best possible preparation for Wednesday’s match with Russia. We are into this tournament well prepared mentally and physically. ”

Michal Kubiak (captain Polish): “The first match in the tournament is always very difficult, but it turned out that it is not so bad. We can not wait to meet with Russians which I hope we will win. We are not afraid of confrontation, because in this season regularly with them we won. Luckily managed to win with Tunisia quickly and not lose too much energy. This is important because the event is long and ahead of us a lot of games. ”

Fethi Mkaouar (coach of Tunisia): “It was a very tough game. We played the world champions. I wanted to pitch appeared all volleyball players. We have in this tournament 11 games and I would sure each was better. Step by step we want to make progress. With each encounter should draw the best science “.

Marouen Garcia (captain Tunisia): “We made too many mistakes in the match against the world champions, it takes revenge. We were respectively good at defensive game. We need to improve adoption and avoid making mistakes. “

 

“White-red” Japan will play 11 games. The two best teams of the tournament will gain promotion to the Olympic Games. Four years ago the Polish national team in the World Cup took second place.

 

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Among the 12 teams there is no Brazilians, who were the hosts of the Games do not have to fight for qualification. Among the participants, amongst others missing winners of this year’s World League – the French and Serbs, but will play for example. The Russians, Americans, Iranians and Italians.

 

The second match of Poles will clash with Olympic champion Russia, and on Thursday from Argentina. In Hamamatsu after the break they will compete even with Iran and Venezuela.

 

Later the white and red team will move to Toyama matches with Canada, Egypt and Australia. In Tokyo, where they will go all the teams will play the US, Japan and Italy. The event will end on 23 September.

 

Skład squad for the World Cup:

CENTRAL – Charles Ear (PGE Skra Belchatow), Matthew Bieniek (Effector Kielce), Marcin Możdżonek (Cuprum Lubin) Piotr Nowakowski (Asseco Resovia);

The receiving – Matthew Mika (Lotos Trefl Gdańsk), rafał buszek (ZAKSA Kedzierzyn-Kozle), Michał Kubiak (Halkbank Ankara), Artur Szalpuk (Cerrada Black Radom);

Quarterback – Fabian Drzyzga (Asseco Resovia), Grzegorz Łomacz (Cuprum Lubin);

Libero – Piotr Gacek (Lotos Trefl Gdańsk), Paul Zatorski (ZAKSA Kedzierzyn-Kozle);

Attacker – David Konarski (ZAKSA Kedzierzyn-Kozle), Bartosz Kurek (Asseco Resovia).