The Horse-Ball lands in Poland and Involve Ukrainian Cossacks

During the weekend from 18^th to 20^th November was held at the fair "Parada Jezdziecka" in Lodz, Poland, among the numerous shows, a demonstration of Horse-Ball.

The event was organized with great care and passion by Piotr Zielinski, father of the Horse-Ball in Poland. Took part at the demonstration a selection of seven Spanish players, including two of the National Team, and some players of Equiclub Valcurone of Missaglia (LC).

Dede Monti, Thomas Giuliani, Enrico Monti and Alfred Ndreu braved the fantastic playground of Atlas Arena with spectacular actions the Spanish team, which embraced and involved the audience.

The objective of this event was to give visibility to the sport, which in Poland has not yet started, and after this weekend we can say we have managed to intrigue the large audience (consisting of about 5,000 people every day) and arouse in them at least some of the great thrills of the sport.

It has also been held a brief friendship match between a mixed team of Italian and Spanish players and Ukrainian Cossacks, who have shown great enthusiasm and desire to learn the sport.

During the three days the players have ridden horses kindly offered by the Polo Club Polski in Warsaw.

Friday has been played a demo game; Saturday Iberian selection team has prevailed on Lombardy team with a final result of 7 to 5, playing on the physicality and speed of the ball. Sunday the match held in suspense until the end the crowd of spectators closing with a draw (4 to 4) between the two formations.

“Thanks to Piotr Zielinski and Asia Zielinska for the effort in organizing this event and made it a success” said Dede Monti “their availability was constant day and night to provide to all players the all support needed with great kindness”.

We hope this event will help Poland Horse-Ball development and the Italian Coach Dede Monti after official thanks to Lodz organizers has given its availability to come back next year with other Italian teams.

Thomas Giuliani

Player of the Italian Nazional Team