Following Nishida Yuji's transfer to Italy, the transfer of national team setter Sekita Seita to the overseas team has also been officially announced! We already introduced this in an article in May. Sekita will play for Lubin in the Polish top league, PlusLiga (written as "PlusLiga" in Monthly Volleyball but pronounced "Prus" in Polish).
Sekita is the third Japanese player in the Prslyga after Taichiro Koga and Masahiro Yanagida. As for the Polish League as a whole, he is the fourth Japanese player, as Takahashi Sho also played in the second division. He is the first Japanese setter in the Polska League! As a Polish volleyball fan, I am very happy that there is another Japanese player!
What kind of team is Rubin, the team you belong to?
Cuprum Lubin (hereinafter referred to as Lubin) is a club team whose hometown is Lubin city in Dolni Silesia in southwestern Poland. For Japanese fans, it is famous as the team that Masahiro Yanagida played for in the 2018/19 season. It is about 6 hours by train from the capital Warsaw, and if you fly to nearby Wroclaw, it is about 1 hour by bus from there. I previously explained how to get there when Yanagida played for the team, but there have been many changes in the past three years, such as the opening of a train station and changes to the bus system, so I would like to write another article about the latest access information.
Past articles are here
Rubin was founded in 2001 and was promoted to the Przliga in the 2014/15 season. In their second year after promotion, they achieved a good result of 5th place in the league with players such as Polish national team players Womachi, Kaczmarek, and Mojzińek, and German national team player Böhme, but since the 2018/19 season, when most of their main players left, they have been in 11th and 12th place, barely avoiding relegation matches, and have continued to struggle.
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The Khurmullubin registered members for the 2021/22 season are as follows (- indicates jersey number not yet decided).
1. Marcin Walinski OH 196cm
2. Kamil Marszczyk OH 191cm
4. David Gunia MB 203cm
5. Ferenc Wojciech OH 194cm
9. Pawel Pietraszko MB 201cm
10. Remigiusz Kapitza OP 200cm
13. Ronald Siemens OP 200cm (Colombia)
14. Michal Giersot OH 205cm
20. Kamil Simula L 185cm
94. Przemyslav Tempien S 185cm
- Seida Sekida S 175cm (Japan)
- Florian Klage MB 204cm (Germany)
- Jenrzej Kazmierczyk MB 199cm
- Maciej Sás L 182cm
Director: Pawel Russek
Rubin has changed a lot of its members from last season for the new season. Of the 14 registered members, only six were originally there, and the remaining eight, including Sekita, are new members. The head coach, Russek, who was assistant coach last season, has been promoted to the new team.
The player to watch is Colombian oppositeSiemensLast season, he was the third-highest scorer in the league's attack scoring rankings, and expectations are high for his scoring ability this season as well.GhierzotAlso worth checking out is the large outside player for the Polish U21 national team, who is a promising player who could be selected for the senior national team in the near future.Jellyfishare also strong candidates for the starting lineup. How will setter Sekita handle this mix of veterans and young attackers? I'm excited just thinking about it!
Promising young player Gierzot
When will Pulsliga start? Will it be available online?
The Prussliga schedule for next season is posted on the official website.
https://www.plusliga.pl/games/tour/2021.html?memo=%7B%22games%22%3A%7B%22faza%22%3A1%2C%22runda%22%3A1%2C%22kolejka%22%3A1%7D%7D
The opening is on October 2ndThis is scheduled to happen!
Also, Pulsliga is hereipla.tvThe website provides online streaming and archived streaming for each season.
https://www.ipla.tv/start
You can watch it for about 1,200 yen per month, but it is only available in Polish, so if you don't understand Polish, it will be difficult to create an account. I would like to post an explanatory article about this as the opening draws closer.
What kind of impact will the second Polish League player "Masahiro" have on the Polish volleyball world? Keep an eye on Sekita's future performance and Przyliga!
Photo: PLS, FIVB
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