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Slovenia - Ukraine: a preview of the opening match of Eurovolley 2023

30.08.2023

On August 30, at 17:30 Kyiv time, the opening match of the men's national team of Ukraine will take place within the group round of the European Championship 2023. The opponent of the wards of Uģis Krastiņš will be the national team of Slovenia.

Rosters of the teams

Slovenia

The team is led by the Romanian specialist Gheorghe Crețu. A couple of weeks ago, he led the team to silver medals at the 2023 Memorial of Hubert Wagner. In addition to Slovenia, the national teams of Poland, France, and Italy took part in the tournament, but Slovenia was the one to become the winner.

At the 2022 World Cup, Slovenia came fourth, losing to Brazil (1:3) in the bronze medal match.

At the last Eurovolley, which took place in 2021, the Slovenians became silver medalists, losing in the finals of the tournament to Italy (2:3).

setters: Uros Planinsic ("Calcit" Slovenia), Gregor Ropret ("Perugia" Italy);

Outside hitters: Rok Bracko ("Merkur Maribor" Slovenia), Ziga Stern ("Slepsk Suwalki" Poland), Klemen Cebulj ("Resovia" Poland), Tine Urnaut ("JTEKT Stings" Japan), Rok Mozic ("Verona" Italy") ;

liberos: Urban Toman (Arcade Galati, Romania), Jani Kovacic (Ljubljana, Slovenia);

middle blockers: Alen Pajenk (Olympiakos, Greece), Jan Kozamernik (Trentino, Italy), Saso Stalekar (Berlin, Germany), Danijel Koncilja (Ljubljana, Slovenia);

opposites: Nik Mujanovic ("Calcit" Slovenia).

Head coach: Gheorghe Crețu (Romania).

Ukraine

During the team's preparation for the championship matches of the continent, two middle blockers got unfortunate injuries.

Dmytro Teromenko and Maksym Drozd will not play at the tournament. They will be replaced by Bohdan Mazenko ("Barkom-Kazhany") and Volodymyr Ostapenko ("Epicenter-Podolyany").

setters: Serhii Yevstratov (VC "Prometey"*), Yurii Synytsia;

outside hitters: Oleh Plotnytskyi ("Perugia" Italy), Tymofii Poluian ("Milon" Greece), Vitalii Kucher ("Barkom-Kazhany"), Illia Kovalov ("Barkom-Kazhany");

liberos: Oleksandr Boiko (VC "Prometey"), Dmytro Kanaiev ("Barkom-Kazhany");

middle blockers: Yurii Semeniuk, Vladyslav Shchurov (“Barkom-Kazhany”), Bohdan Mazenko (“Barkom-Kazhany”), Volodymyr Ostapenko (“Epicenter-Podolyany”);

opposites: Vasyl Tupchii (“Barkom-Kazhany”), Yevhenii Kisiliuk (“Epicenter-Podolyany”).

Head coach: Uģis Krastiņš (Latvia).

Previous meetings

At the 2022 World Cup, it was the Slovenian national team that stood in the way of the Ukrainians getting to the semi-finals of the prestigious tournament (1:3).

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