Egypt meets the star studded
Russian team with the return back of all outstanding players
Kazan,
Egypt, June 15, 2007- : In the fourth weekend of the 2007 World
League, Russia will play Egypt in ancient Kazan hall whose
millennium was widely celebrated last year. It will be the first
match to be held in Kazan after Russia hosted Serbia in the
first weekend at Krylatskoye hall in Moscow. The team Kazan of
this city, became the champion of Russia a month ago, and now
the city will be the venue of the most prestigious event all
over the World with the best teams in the world participating.
The last meeting of competitors took place just a week ago in
Cairo and the result was 3:0 to the more experienced and titled
team of Russia. At this weekend the hosts are playing in a
stronger composition, because Semen Poltavsky, Alexey Kazakov
and Alexey Kuleshov will take part in these games for the first
time in this year’s competition.
The Polish head coach of Egypt Grzegorz Rys is very optimistic
with his players to show their consistency as they did in all
their matches in the World League till now. “Match by match we
improve and the performance of my players is progressively
advancing and this is a good sign before our important
involvements in the African competitions this year specially the
African Nation’s Championship and the 2008 Olympic
Qualification.” Rys said.
The head coach of The National Team of Russia, Vladimir Alekno
said: "During an intercontinental round we are deciding certain
tasks according the level of our players' training. So the added
player to the squad, who will be involved in the games, starting
from the second half of the preliminary stage, is planned in
advance according to our strategy."
By Tarek Aladwar from Kazan,
Russia |