Poland’s Serbian head coach Nikola Grbic released a list of 30 players he will rely on for the upcoming 2024 men’s national team season. There are no notable absences from the athletes responsible for the team’s impeccable 2023 season. In fact all players, who qualified the team to this year Paris 2024 Olympic Games at last fall’s FIVB Road to Paris Volleyball Qualifier in China, all players, who beat USA in the Volleyball Nations League 2023 final, and all players, who propelled Poland to the top of the 2023 CEV Men’s European Championship podium – a total of 16 names – are featured on Grbic’s 2024 line-up.
The list includes the likes of VNL 2023 Most Valuable Player Pawel Zatorski, EuroVolley 2023 MVP Wilfredo Leon, living legend Bartosz Kurek and plenty of high-calibre stars like Aleksander Sliwka, Jakub Kochanowski, Kamil Semeniuk and Lukasz Kaczmarek, to name a few.
The new roster also marks the return of 29-year-old outside hitter Arthur Szalpuk, a member of the squad that triumphed at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship, who last played for Poland at the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Cup in Japan, where the team earned silver.