Last chance saloon

9th July 2010

The Polish Volleyball team is now playing for pride

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Poland’s volleyball team has one last shot at redemption having crashed out of the World League, losing their last three games; twice to Cuba, once to Germany. One game remains with the Germans for Poland to leave the competition with some sense of honour intact.

On Thursday night in Katowice’s Spodek, Poland lost to Germany in five sets, forcing a tie-break but eventually lost to their more consistent opponents.

The tie was given added spice due to the fact that Germany’s coach is Raul Lozano, who led the Polish team to their greatest recent successes. His Polish contacts were betrayed when he got entangled with a Polish cameraman and swore in fluent Polish at him, much to the c ...

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