The great jubilee of Mariusz Wlaz³y. Only the 3rd in the history of PlusLiga

PlusLiga is considered one of the strongest volleyball leagues in Europe. Stars grow on Polish dance floors and later present their skills abroad. It is enough to point to the example of Kamil Semeniuk, Bartosz Kurek or Michał Kubiak. However, not all volleyball players decide to part ways with the domestic backyard. One of such players is Mariusz Wlazły, who played the 500th match in PlusLiga on Thursday.

Mariusz Wlazły with his 500th appearance in PlusLiga. The attacker’s volleyball legend continues

The almost 40-year-old attacker made his debut exactly on November 29, 2003 as a player of PGE Skra Bełchatów. The club’s activists wanted to win one of the main volleyball players of the national team, which won the junior world championship under Ireneusz Rysia. In Bełchatów, the huge potential of Wlazły was immediately noticed, and he quickly became the main player of the team. However, the beginnings were not easy for him. – The level in PLS was much higher, and I also had to change during the season. We didn’t win a medal in the first season, but I’m sure those were very important months for me. It was this season and this experience that resulted in the following years – he said in an interview with the media.

He played for the Bełchatów team for 17 years, winning many titles along the way. He won the Polish championship 9 times, and additionally won the Polish Cup and the Polish Super Cup several times. Skra with Wlazły in the squad also presented itself very well in European cups. The volleyball player can boast of the silver medal of the Champions League in 2012 and the Club World Championship (2009, 2010).

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Wlazły’s adventure with the club from Bełchatów came to an end in 2020. The attacker then became a player of Trefl Gdańsk, where he plays until today. Thursday’s meeting with Resovia Rzeszów was his 500th appearance on the PlusLiga floors. This is the second best result in league history. Only Michał Ruciak, who played as many as 555 of them, ended his career this year.

“It makes me happy that I am perceived in this way. But we all created PlusLiga together”

Wlazły can also boast of many competition records. In the matches played, he scored a total of as many as 7,558 points and is a definite leader in the classification of the best-scoring players. The 39-year-old also leads the list of the best attackers (6051 point attacks) and players with the most statuettes for the MVP of the meeting (74).

So it is not surprising that in 2020 he was chosen the volleyball player of the 20th anniversary of the tournament. – It’s nice that in the minds of the fans I am so valued, especially since our league has had many great players over the years who together created its history and position. It makes me happy to be seen that way. But we all created and create PlusLiga together, each of us was important – summed up the selection of fans.

What’s next for Wlazły’s career? As he admitted, he hoped to end his volleyball adventure as a Skra player. – I do not hide that there were such thoughts. It is hardly surprising, however, since one club spends as many as seventeen years, so plans for the future are associated with it. There were such thoughts, but it did not work out, ”he admitted. It is known, however, that after leaving the league floors, he will remain in the world of sport. – I don’t want to leave sport, I don’t know if I’ll just focus on psychology in volleyball, I don’t want to close myself off to other disciplines – betrayed the attacker, who is currently studying.

In addition to a great club career, the volleyball player can also boast of successes with the Polish national team. We are talking primarily about the gold of the world championship in 2014, which he crowned with the award for MVP and the best attacker of the championship.