Soccer: Poland announce World Cup squad

WARSAW - Poland's soccer coach Jerzy Engel named his 23-player squad for the World Cup finals, relying on the players who beat Estonia 1-0 in their friendly on Saturday.

Engel played 22 players going to the championships in the Estonia tune-up, with only first choice goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek of Liverpool sitting out to rest his sore knee.

Engel's final selection was straightforward after he picked a 24-man squad for a training camp last week, only to have Legia Warsaw winger Bartosz Karwan injured and ruled out of the World Cup.

Poland squad:

Goalkeepers: Jerzy Dudek (Liverpool), Radoslaw Majdan (Goeztepe Izmir), Adam Matysek (RKS Radomsko)

Defenders: Michal Zewlakow (Excelsior Mouscron), Marek Kozminski (Ancona Calcio), Tomasz Waldoch, Tomasz Hajto (both Schalke 04), Jacek Zielinski (Legia Warsaw), Jacek Bak (RC Lens), Tomasz Klos (Kaiserslautern), Arkadiusz Glowacki (Wisla Krakow),

Midfielders: Tomasz Rzasa (Feyenoord), Jacek Krzynowek (Nuernberg), Radoslaw Kaluzny (Energie Cottbus), Arkadiusz Bak (Widzew Lodz), Piotr Swierczewski (Olympique Marseilles), Maciej Murawski (Legia Warsaw), Pawel Sibik (Odra Wodzislaw),

Strikers: Emmanuel Olisadebe (Panathinaikos Athens), Pawel Kryszalowicz (Eintracht Frankfurt), Maciej Zurawski (Wisla Krakow), Marcin Zewlakow ((Excelsior Mouscron), Cezary Kucharski (Legia Warsaw)

- REUTERS

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