Błażej Korczyński, coach of the Polish national futsal team, sent Sobota to the training camp before the play-off matches with Croatia to qualify for the World Cup. The 36-year-old player will make his debut in the futsal team. Previously, in the years 2011-14, he played 17 times for the national team on grass, under the leadership of three coaches – Franciszek Smuda, Waldemar Fornalik and Adam Nawałka. He scored four goals with the eagle on his chest.
The call-up for Sobota was made in an emergency – the Dreman Komprachcice Opole player, who ended his football career in 2022 and moved to the hall, was called up together with Sebastian Grubalski (Constract Lubawa) due to injuries of Michał Marek (Rekord Bielsko-Biała) and Jakub Kąkol ( GI Malepszy Arth Soft Leszno). Earlier, an injury eliminated Mikołaj Zastawnik, the driving force of the national team, who suffered a serious injury in a cup match against futsal team Piast Gliwice and is undergoing intensive rehabilitation.
Sobota is one of the most effective Poles in the current FOGO Futsal Ekstraklasa season. He has scored 24 goals so far and in the snipers’ classification he is ahead of only two Brazilians (one of whom may soon get Polish citizenship), a Costa Rican and Rajmund Siecla from Leszno. – I approach the topic of the national team calmly – he said a month ago. — I do my job and what I have to do. However, being called up to the futsal national team would undoubtedly be the pinnacle of my entire football career, he declared in an interview with the FE portal.
The weakened Polish national team will compete with Croatia on April 12 in Koszalin and on April 16 in Zagreb in a play-off to advance to the Futsal World Championship. The Reds and Whites have only entered the futsal World Cup once – in 1992 in Hong Kong. This year’s world championships will be held in Uzbekistan in the fall.
