He dethroned Italy and Poland became the “queen” of Europe again!

He took the crown of Italy and wore it again Poland! Nikola Grbic’s terrible team “beat” Rome by winning 3-0 set of the title holder and was crowned Queen of Europe for second time in its history and first after his epic 2009 in Turkey.

The Italians bowed to the superiority of the Poles as they failed to prevail in any field with the Leon to score 13 pointshaving as their worthy supporters Hubek with 12 and Kaczmarek with 10.

This is how Poland did the “double” this year as it was preceded by the conquest of the Nations League last July.

Incredible service stats for the new European champion who had 11 aces to the Italian’s three,

The sets: (20-25, 21-25, 23-25)

*Italy’s points came from 3 aces, 35 attacks, 6 blocks and 20 opponent errors while Poland’s points came from 11 aces, 40 attacks, 4 blocks and 20 opponent errors

ITALY (Ferdinando De Giorgi): Micheletto 10 (9/16 ref., 1 block, 28% sub. – 11% excellent), Gianelli 3 (1/2 ref., 1 ace, 1 block), Galassi 6 (4/5 ref., 2 blocks) , Lavia 13 (11/20 ff., 2 blocks, 27% sub. – 27% excellent), Romano 9 (8/17 ff., 1 ace), Rousseau 2 (2/4 ff.) / Balaso (min. , 38% sub – 38% excellent), Spertoli 1 (1 ace), Scanferla (l.), Rinaldi

POLAND (Nikola Gribic): Kaczmarek 10 (10/22 ff.), Leon 13 (10/22 ff., 3 aces, 50% sub. – 13% excellent), Slivka 9 (7/14 ff., 1 ace, 1 block, 50% sub. .– 21% excellent), Kochanowski 9 (7/11 ff., 1 ace, 1 block), Janus 1 (1 ace), Huber 12 (5/9 ff., 5 aces, 2 blocks) / Zatorski (min. ,), Semenyuk 1 (1/1 ff.), Fornal