Poles in tears and gold medals on the neck. It’s more than just a match
Recent years in representative volleyball have shown that Poland – Brazil matches at men are great classics. For a really huge rate.
The Saturday semi -final match of the VNL 2025 tournament in China will answer whether it was the Polish or Brazilian national team for the gold of this year’s edition. It is worth recalling that Poles with Brazilians also had the opportunity to face matches for the League of Nations medals. In 2019, Poles were the top (3: 0), reaching for bronze, while in 2021 Brazil turned out to be better (1: 3), winning the grand finale.
League of Nations: Polish-Brazilian battles with matches for gold
What’s more, both teams also measured during the last Olympic tournament. In Paris, Poles were better winning in group competitions after a five -hundred thriller.
However, if you look for matches that Polish fans remember best in the context of competition with Brazil, you have to go back a little deeper. The finals of the World Cup in 2014 and 2018. At the time, Poland had a bad memory from 2006, when sensational reached the finals of the World Cup in Japan, it affected Great Brazil.
However, as the later history showed, two more opportunities to play for the gold of the World Championships, Poland decided to in its favor. In 2014, during a tournament organized in Poland, where MVP of the whole struggle was elected Mariusz Wlazły.
Four years later, Poles defended the trophy during the World Cup in Bulgaria and Italy. At that time, the team led by coach Vital Heynen had Bartosz Kurek returning to the highest level in their ranks. It was “Kuraś” that led the team to success, collecting the MVP statuette of the tournament.
VNL 2025: Poland – Brazil in the semi -final. Where and when to watch the match?
Interestingly, the Brazil – Poland match has already been held this season. During the tournament played in Chicago, the Brazilian team won 3: 1 (25:21, 25:21, 21:25, 28:26). However, Poles did not have all the basic players in their ranks. Kamil Semeniuk presented himself best on the Polish side then, who scored as many as 17 points. Artur Szalpuk – 15 points added next to him next to him.
The semi -final of Poles with Brazil will take place on Saturday (i.e. August 2). Beginning of the meeting at 13:00 Polish time. Earlier, the Italians played 3: 1 Slovenians, thanks to which the world champions on Sunday (i.e. August 3) will play for gold VNL 2025. Slovenia remains the “final of consolation”, i.e. a game for brown rings.
All matches of the VNL 2025 final tournament will be shown at Polsat Sport antennas. In addition, the Polish national team matches will be in the Polsat open channel schedule. Online broadcasts will be on the Polsat Box Go platform.
