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Born | Warsaw, Poland | 7 October 1958||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wojciech Drzyzga (born 7 October 1958) is a Polish former volleyball player and coach. He was a member of the Poland national team from 1978 to 1985 and a participant in the 1980 Olympic Games. Drzyzga works as a volleyball commentator.
He is married to Janina. They have two sons, Tomasz (born 1985) and Fabian (born 1990). [1]
Since 2003, Wojciech Drzyzga has been working as a volleyball commentator at Polsat Sport (earlier also at TV4), often with Tomasz Swędrowski. He comments on the most important volleyball events broadcast in Poland. [2]
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