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VC Dynamo back to CEV Champions League group stage since season 2018/19. Last year white-blues played in the CEV Cup and became the winners of competition (3:2, 3:1 at the final against Zenit Saint-Petersburg).

The match against Project Warsaw will be the first Champions League game at Volleyball arena Dynamo at Vasilisa Kozhina’s street. From 2003 to 2020 VC Dynamo played home games at Dynamo Sport Hall at Lavochkina’s street.

VC Dynamo is one of the basic team for Russian national team. This summer setter Pavel Pankov and two outside hitters Yaroslav Podlesnikh and Denis Bogdan became the silver medalist of the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Pankov, Podlesnikh, middle-blocker Ilya Vlasov and libero Evgeni Baranov also was a part of National team on Euro-2022.

Last weekend Dynamo became the member of Final Four of Russian Cup. At semi-final stage Konstantin Bryanskiy’s team won 3 games against ASK (3:0), Ugra-Samotlor (3:0) and Ural (3:1). Setter Pavel Pankov scored 19 aces at those games and with 30 points became the second leading scorer of the team at this stage.

Outside spiker Yaroslav Podlesnikh is on fire. 27-years old player was the best scorer of the team at last four games. At the game against Ural he repeated his own record in National Championship games (25 points).

Projekt Warszawa will play in CEV Champions League in Russia for the very first time even when they already played with Russian team - Kuzbass Kemerovo (both matches were organized in Roeselare and Modena).

Projekt Warszawa has one of the best middle blockers pair in Polish PlusLiga - both are in the top 10 of blockers in league ranking (Piotr Nowakowski is 4th and got 24 blocks after 10 matches and Andrzej Wrona is 8th and got 19 blocks after 10 matches).

We will see four World Champions in a Projekt Warszawa squad - middleblocker Piotr Nowakowski (2014, 2018), captain and middle blocker Andrzej Wrona (2014), libero Damian Wojtaszek (2018), outside hitter Bartosz Kwolek (2018). Also coach Andrea Anastasi won a World Championship in 1990 with a team of Italy.

Coach of Projekt Warszawa - Andrea Anastasi knows how to play against Russian teams. In 2019 when he was a coach of Trefl Gdańsk, he broke the "winning streak" of 30 games in a row of Zenit Kazan! His team won 3: 2 in revenge in Kazan but lost promotion in the "golden set".

Previous year Champions League group stage was one of the most dramatic story for Projekt Warszawa (VERVA Warszawa ORLEN Paliwa in 2019-2021). Polish team was not promoted to the next stage after losing 2:3 with Kuzbass Kemerovo. Projekt needed only four points more in tie-break to get promotion to quarterfinals from second place (Polish team lost in tie-break 5:15).