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Daniel Mateusz Pliński (born 10 December 1978) is a Polish volleyball coach and former volleyball player, member of the Poland men's national volleyball team in 2005–2010, participant at the Olympic Games (Beijing 2008), silver medallist at the 2006 World Championship, 2009 European Champion, five–time Polish Champion. The current head coach of the PlusLiga team, Stal Nysa.

Contents

• 1 Personal life
• 2 Career
  • 2.1 Clubs
  • 2.2 National team
• 3 Sporting achievements
  • 3.1 Clubs
  • 3.2 State awards
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Personal life

Daniel Pliński was born in Puck. He has three brothers Piotr, Wiesław, Wojciech and two sisters – Wioleta and Iwona. On 24 September 2004, he married Marta. They have two daughters – Julia (born 10 April 2006) and Lena (born 2012).

As a player of Jastrzębski Węgiel.

Career

Pliński is a three–time Polish Champion in beach volleyball – 2002, 2003, 2004.

Clubs

He was a player of PGE Skra Bełchatów for seven years. With this team, he won, among others: five *les of Polish Champion (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014), three Polish Cups (2009, 2011, 2012), silver and bronze medal of the CEV Champions League. On 9 May 2014, it was announced that Pliński will join Cerrad Czarni Radom.

He retired from volleyball on 24 May 2018.

National team

Pliński was a member of the Polish national team which won a gold medal at the 2009 European Championship held in Turkey. On 14 September 2009, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of Polonia Res*uta. The Order was conferred on the following day by the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk.

Sporting achievements

Clubs

• CEV Champions League
  • 2011/2012 – with PGE Skra Bełchatów

• FIVB Club World Championship
  • Doha 2009 – with PGE Skra Bełchatów
  • Doha 2010 – with PGE Skra Bełchatów

• National championships
  • 2002/2003 Polish Cup, with Polska Energia Sosnowiec
  • 2003/2004 Polish Cup, with Polska Energia Sosnowiec
  • 2007/2008 Polish Championship, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
  • 2008/2009 Polish Cup, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
  • 2008/2009 Polish Championship, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
  • 2009/2010 Polish Championship, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
  • 2010/2011 Polish Cup, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
  • 2010/2011 Polish Championship, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
  • 2011/2012 Polish Cup, with PGE Skra Bełchatów
  • 2013/2014 Polish Championship, with PGE Skra Bełchatów

State awards

• 2006: Gold Cross of Merit
• 2009: Knight's Cross of Polonia Res*uta

References

External links

• Player profile at the European Volleyball Confederation
• Player profile at Olympedia
• Player profile at PlusLiga.pl (in Polish)
• Player profile at the International Olympic Committee
• Coach/Player profile at Volleybox.net