Sada Cruzeiro boards on this Thursday night, 12/07, to play the main tournament of the season, the Club World Championship. The team left the training center late in the afternoon and went to Confins Airport. From there, the group heads to São Paulo where it takes a flight at 10 pm to Frankfurt, Germany. The next destination will be Krakow, Poland, scheduled to arrive at 5 pm on this Friday. And in the final stretch of the trip the group will still have another route of about 200km by bus to Opole, which is one of the host cities of the competition in the qualifying phase.

The team arrives in Poland on friday night

The Cruzeirenses are looking for their fourth World title in one of the most balanced editions of the interclub tournament. The debut of Sada Cruzeiro will be next Tuesday, 12, against the Italian Lube Civitanova, by group A, in the city of Opole. In the second round, Sada Cruzeiro faces Iran’s Sarmayeh Bank. Then the third clash will be against Poland’s Zaksa Kedzierzyn-Kozle on the 14th.

In group B of the tournament are the other Polish, PGE Skra Belchatow, the Russian Zenit Kazan, the Argentine Bolívar and the Chinese Shanghai Volleyball Club. These teams will compete in the qualifying round at another venue in the city of Lodz.

“Our team has made strong practices sessions this week and we were able to fine-tune some of the details, targeting the opponents we will now face. We go to Poland very motivated, confident in doing our best in every match. We don’t have the opportunity to play a Club World Championship every day, the most important tournament on the planet, especially against the high-level opponents we will face. Our squad is really focused to get great results “, said Coach Marcelo Mendez.