Football: Poland manager names 23-man squad for World Cup
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
04.06.2018 15:16
Poland manager Adam Nawałka on Monday named his final 23-man lineup for this month’s football World Cup in Russia.
Poland manager Adam Nawałka. Photo: PAP/Darek Delmanowicz
Nawałka whittled down the team from an initial 35-man list of names.
The Poland squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia:
Goalkeepers: Bartosz Białkowski (Ipswich Town), Łukasz Fabiański (Swansea City), Wojciech Szczęsny (Juventus);
Defenders: Jan Bednarek (Southampton), Bartosz Bereszyński (Sampdoria), Thiago Cionek (SPAL), Kamil Glik (AS Monaco), Łukasz Piszczek (Borussia Dortmund), Artur Jędrzejczyk (Legia Warsaw), Michał Pazdan (Legia Warsaw);
Midfielders: Jakub Błaszczykowski (VfL Wolfsburg), Jacek Góralski (Ludogorets Razgrad), Kamil Grosicki (Hull City), Grzegorz Krychowiak (West Bromwich Albion), Rafał Kurzawa (Górnik Zabrze), Karol Linetty (Sampdoria), Maciej Rybus (Lokomotiv Moscow), Piotr Zieliński (Napoli), Sławomir Peszko (Lechia Gdańsk);
Forwards: Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich), Dawid Kownacki (Sampdoria), Arkadiusz Milik (Napoli), Łukasz Teodorczyk (Anderlecht).
The World Cup kicks off on June 14 and runs until July 15. Poland take on Senegal, Colombia and Japan in the group stage of the tournament.
Defender Kamil Glik has been named as part of Poland’s final 23-man lineup despite sustaining a shoulder injury in training on Monday.
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Source: IAR