On November 12, the Polish national football team will play another match in the qualifying round of the 2022 world championship. The Andorra team will be the away rival of the “White and Red” team. The clear favorite of this confrontation will be our players, who will, however, have to cope with the difficulties of an organizational nature, as the spokesman of the Polish Football Association says.
– First of all, a trip to Andorra is a big logistical challenge and we knew about it for several months, when we were there and visited the stadium, we chose the hotel for the team. There is no airport there. The closest is more than three hours away by bus. If we take the whole trip – starting from the departure from the hotel, which we usually use in Warsaw, transfer to the airport, flight to Barcelona and coach transfer, the whole one-way trip would take us over eight hours. We know that the game is the most important, the players should be refreshed and we wanted to avoid this type of trip – explained the spokesman of the national team.
– We considered various types of scenarios and in the end it was reasonable that the players who fly to Poland for the training camp will fly to Spain instead. We will have a training center for ourselves. We will stay there from Monday 8 November to 11 November until Thursday. The day before the game, we will go by coach to Andorra and it will take us about two hours. Due to logistical considerations, this type of decision was made. We will come back from Andorra after the match on Saturday. We will fly to Warsaw on November 13, where we will prepare for the match against Hungary – said Kwiatkowski.
A spokesman for the Polish Football Association suggested that there is no shortage of subtexts related to such a decision.
– We already have a selected center, contracts with this facility are being finalized. It may turn out that the weather conditions will be much better, because in November it may even snow in Poland. Only logistical reasons decided that we would be in Spain, because I also heard various subtexts that the selector prefers to stay in a warm country. This is nonsense – he emphasized.
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