Russian national water polo team head coach Sergei Markoch spoke about the renewal of the team and the inclusion of the 2016 Olympic medalist Ekaterina Prokofiev to the list of candidates for the national team.
Prokofieva stopped playing for the national team after the 2020 Games in Tokyo.
– I asked Katya to stay and continue her career in the national team. Katya said, “Yes.” She is a candidate for the team. All our other honored masters, winners of the Olympic Games – all finished playing for the national team, – Markoch told “”.
– Potentially, is she ready to join the next training camp?
– Theoretically ready and said. We have the first training camp at Krugly in early December. Players will be called up to the squad based on the results of their performances in the first two rounds of the Russian championship. I tend to believe it should be young players. The youngest will be born in 2006. The backbone of the team will be the players born in 1998, those who won the world championship with me. But there will be older athletes.
Source : MatchTV
