An injury of the captain of the Polish national team. Fatal news came
Rafał Szymura will not play in the upcoming League of Nations League tournament in Chicago. The volleyball player in the team will be replaced by Aleksander Śliwka.
It is worth recalling that at the opening of the representative season, Rafał Szymura was the captain of the team. As the most experienced among the new team under the baton of Nikola Grbic, the host did very well.
Unfortunately, in Chicago playing every day in the colors of Zaksa Kędzierzyn-Koźle, there will be a shortage of.
“Preparing for the start in the second volleyball tournament of the League of Nations, in Chicago (USA), Rafał Szymura suffered a left knee injury. The player returns to the country where the research will undergo, and his place in the composition will be taken by Aleksander Śliwka,” the Polish Volleyball Association said in a special communication.
Thus, a player who appeared in the Japanese league will enter the game last season. And in Capital matters, plum has been indicated many times as the successor of Bartosz Kurek – Captain number 1 in the national team.
Rafał Szymura’s injury. A sudden change in the Polish national team
It is worth recalling that before the start of the personnel season, at the start of the national team in Spała, Szymura in a special conversation for directly admitted that he was happy to return to the national team. The volleyball player set himself an ambitious goal of the fight for a place among those appointed to the most important event of this year, i.e. the world championship.
It is difficult to judge how serious trauma we are talking about. However, when the knee issue is involved, you certainly have to be very careful in the context of health.
– On the pitch, despite the fact that we are not so fully harmonized yet, we feel “this something” between us. So it’s great. It doesn’t matter that we make mistakes, we always have to reset after them immediately. It’s nice that this is how it looks. We need to correct these mistakes, but all the time with a smile, forward. The head up and only positively, because you can win this way – he said during the Szymur tournament in China, complimenting his teammates.
Poles will start the VNL 2025 tournament in Chicago Wednesday (i.e. June 25) with a match with Italy. Looking at Polish watches, the start of the meeting at 19:30.
