The training camp for the most important game this year begins on Monday, March 21. In less than 10 days, the team will face Sweden or the Czech Republic in the play-off final for participation in the world championship in Qatar.
Controversy over vocations. The squad includes players from Russia
The selector decided to refer to as many as 33 players. Such a large number of called-ups raises some controversy (some probably will not appear on the pitch even for a minute), but the coach himself explains that he wants to prepare for the play-off match in the best possible way.
Among the appointed were two players who play in the Russian Premier League on a daily basis. Originally it was about (Lokomotiv Moscow) and Sebastian Szymanski (Dynamo Moscow). .
Their appointment to the team aroused a lot of controversy. There were voices that the players who were playing there at the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine should not have played in the Polish national team. In addition, after all, as well as the leaders of the Polish national team, unequivocally boycotted the match with Russia in the play-off semi-finals for promotion to the World Cup in Qatar, which indirectly led to the exclusion of this country from participation in international competitions. Tomasz Kędziora, a Dynamo Kyiv footballer, who had to flee Ukraine after the Russian army attacked the country is also in the squad.
Robert Lewandowski: You can’t sweep it under the rug
Therefore, there are doubts as to whether there will be any disagreements in the frame. The captain of the team, Robert Lewandowski, commented on this topic. – Certainly it will be a topic that will be discussed, in these times it is impossible not to talk about it. We will probably be accompanied by a lot of emotions, because the war is fought next to us and we see its effects more clearly than other countries. The farther you are, the less realistic it seems. And for us Poles, the tragedy of the Ukrainian nation is something very close – he said in an interview with.
– It is important that each of us will be able to express our opinion during the training camp. You can’t sweep it under the rug and I think we are all aware of it. On the other hand, looking at it through the prism of sport, we have to switch off some of these emotions and, despite these events, focus on the ball. At the beginning, I had one or two matches when it was not easy for me, but over time I had to put it aside, throw it out of my head when I went out on the pitch – he also added.
Source: Sport
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