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10/04/2018 15:00
Slovak twins dream of always playing in one team
2018 CEV U18 Volleyball European Championship - Men

Púchov, Slovakia, April 10, 2018. Twins in the world of sport are rare, but you can also find some in volleyball. For example, the Finnish twin brothers Matti and Mikko Oivanen. If you studied the rosters of the teams competing in the 2018 CEV U18 Volleyball European Championship - Men in Zlin and Púchov, you would stumble upon a last name repeating in the Slovak team for players, who share the same birth date and height. We are speaking about twin brothers Šimon and Vincent Rzyman.

 

They have the same smile, same face and it is really difficult to tell them apart. "Our coach gave us national team jackets in different colours, so he could recognise, who is who," smiles Šimon. Vincent is an opposite and Šimon a middle blocker. "Šimon is not as good as me, so he is playing on the block," joked Vincent and Šimon added: "Some players can only spike, but I know, how to spike and block, so do not believe him in the question, who is a better player."

 

Surprisingly, these young, talented players have never tried to swap their names, but they are thinking to make this joke on the national team coach Erik Gábor. "We will try it sometimes," they agree simultaneously. Actually, Vincent´s nickname is Šimon and Šimon has a nickname Vinco, so no one can ever be wrong with their names.

 

The Rzymans started playing Volleyball in their home town Poprad, under the big mountains in the High Tatras. Before the last season they moved to the national volleyball academy in Trenčín and they have played several matches in Slovakia‘s top division Extraliga. "We started to play Volleyball thanks to the assistant coach here in the national team, Andrej Vojčík. He called us to the club in Poprad and we started to love volleyball from the very first moment," Šimon recalled, how it all began.

 

The dream of the boys is to always play Volleyball in the same team, just like famous ice-hockey twins Daniel and Henrik Sedin from Sweden. "Of course, we would like to play in one team, because we have a very good relationship, even though we are always together, we never fight. That is why we dream of playing in one team together as our careers progress," said both Rzymans in the end.

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