Sebastian Świderski about the future of Nikola Grbic. The President of PZPS decided
Nikola Grbić has been working with the Polish volleyball team from the beginning of 2022. Importantly, this is a time of success of the Polish team. Will the Serb remain in Poland?
Olympic runner -up (2024), European championship (2023), World Championship (2022), or two wins in the League of Nations (2023 and 2025). These are just some of the successes of the Polish volleyball team under the guidance of coach Nikola Grbic. Serb is certainly one of the best specialists in their profession.
Sebastian Świderski about the cooperation and future of Nikola Grbcia in Poland
His boss, Sebastian Świderski – president of the Polish Volleyball Association, took the floor in the context of cooperation with coach Grbicen. Both gentlemen collaborated together during work in the colors of Zaksa Kędzierzyn-Koźle. Then also with success, reaching, among others After winning in the Champions League (2021).
Coach Grbić currently has a contract in force for the Olympic tournament in Los Angeles. So we are talking about the perspective of the contract by mid -2028.
– We have a contract with Nikola and we will implement it, no matter what happens. I am in favor of giving people to work, not a confusion. Nikola also subordinated a little to our rigor, but to internal arrangements. He doesn’t run any club in Poland, he also gave up the team leading, even in Italy. He wanted to focus only on the representation, on his family and it was accepted by us (…) So we will cooperate as long as we can, and the results of course … We are such a country that we all want to judge and we all assess, because we are all doctors, we are all trainers, we all know best and in this sense it is normal for us. However, the board of the Polish Volleyball Federation will decide, but I hope that he will not have to and we will bring from the next events, as before, subsequent medals – said the president of PZPS in an interview for interia.pl.
The World Cup matches are shown on Polsat Sport and Polsat Sport Extra. Meetings with the participation of the Polish national team are additionally available on the open Polsat antenna. Online broadcasts are available through, among others Polsat Box Go.
An impressive balance of the Polish volleyball team at the World Cup. Sack of medals!
In the medal classification of all time, looking at the world championships, Polish volleyballers are fourth. Poland reached for three gold medals (1974, 2014, 2018) and two silver rings (2006, 2022).
As you can see, apart from the memorable success of the Hubert Wagner team – later Olympic champions (1976) – they stood on the podium in the World Cup events in the 21st century. Recent years are extremely successful, since 2014 it has not happened that Poles were missing in the final of the event. In addition, it is worth noting that since the team trains under the baton of Nikola Grbcia, Poles from the most important events come back with the medal each time. Last example? The Golden League of Nations 2025, where in the final tournament in China Polish volleyballers did not lose a single set in any of the three meetings.
In addition, it is worth remembering that in the case of the Polish volleyball team, we are talking about: leaders of the FIVB world ranking, current European champions (2023), world runners -up (2022) and Olympic runners -up (2024). These are really special times for men’s volleyball in Poland. And what is also worth emphasizing, it began in total with … the 2006 World Championships. At that time, the team led by Raul Lozano decided to remind the world by climbing the party’s podium from the highest representative shelf. It was the first medal of the World Cup since Wagner.
