Nikola Grbić made key choices. An important signal from the Polish team

The most important event of this representative season in volleyball is the World Championships. This type of event continues in the case of volleyballers. Polish women at the weekend secured their place in the best eight of the tournament, playing Belgian 3: 2. As for men, they will start playing around mid -September.

Wagner Memorial: Nikola Grbić made key choices?

For this reason, the Olympic runner -up selector in Krakow during the XXII Memorial of Hubert Wagner, he can check some interesting ideas. Serb in the first two days put on two … quite different seven. On the first day against Serbia (3: 0) Poles began in the setting: Bartosz Kurek on the attack, in the role of the receiving Tomasz Fornal and Wilfredo Leon, in the middle Szymon Jakubiszak and Norbert Huber, playing for Marcin Komenda and Jakub Popiwczak at Libero.

The Polish team had no problems with Serbia’s fence in three sets. However, it must be reflected that the Serbian team is currently in a really large crisis, so the challenge was much simpler than the day after. On Saturday, Poles played with Brazil. And interestingly, how the first day was 3: 0 for the hosts, the second Poland recorded a rather sad defeat of 0: 3. “Enough”, because we are still talking about a social tournament, but still Poles did not get used to losing in three sets in their area. The more that the Krakow Tauron Arena was filled tightly, within 14-15 thousand people.

In a loser meeting with Brazil, the Poles began: Kewin Sasak at the attack, a duo of the host Kamil Semeniuk and Artur Szalpuk, Middle Jakub Nowak and Jakub Kochanowski, playmaker Jan Firlej and Maksymilian Granczny at Libero.

After two days, it became clear that coach of the latter, “final”, may want to squeeze the maximum quality from the team to put up very well -available Argentina. The Argentine team won both meetings and simply, they looked quite well in Krakow.

What set did coach Grbić decide to do? The following: Marcin Komenda at the game, Bartosz Kurek on the attack, Central duo Norbert Huber and Jakub Kochanowski, host Tomasz Fornal and Wilfredo Leon and Jakub Popiwczak at Libero.

Will it be a team that will start the 2025 World Cup? It is difficult to clearly determine. It seems that the most question marks still remain in the context of the middle position. This “sure” is Jakub Kochanowski. Who next to him? Norbert Huber returns to full disposal, although the Olympic runner lost several weeks, and recently has made a slight injury. There is also Jakub Nowak, having great potential, but we are still talking about a teenager, breaking up to senior playing.

So maybe Szymon Jakubiszak? It can be a “black horse” for the upcoming World Cup tournament.

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It is worth noting that after the Wagner Memorial, and before the World Championships Poland will play one more friendly match – September 4 at the Atlas Arena in Łódź – when the opponent of Poles will be the representation of Brazil.

Composition of volleyball teams at the 2025 World Cup

• Playmaker: Marcin Komenda, Jan Firlej.
• Attacker: Bartosz Kurek, Kewin Sasak.
• Host: Tomasz Fornal, Wilfredo Leon, Kamil Semeniuk, Artur Szalpuk.
• Middle: Norbert Huber, Szymon Jakubiszak, Jakub Kochanowski, Jakub Nowak.
• Libero: Jakub Popiwczak, Maksymilian Graniczny.

Polish volleyballers at the upcoming World Cup will play in group B. The opponents of Poles will be Romania (September 13), Qatar (September 15) and the Netherlands (September 17). It is worth recalling that the tournaments of the World Cup in the 21st century are particularly successful for Polish volleyball players. Poland won two silver (2006 and 2022) and two gold medal (2014 and 2018). During the tournament in the Philippines, the Polish team will be included in the group of candidates for the final triumph. Even more so after the recent gold VNL 2025.