Lewandowski, Serie A contingent lead 35-man provisional Poland squad
Poland announced its 35-man provisional World Cup squad ahead of a pair of tune-up international friendlies, and highlighting the roster are Bayern Munich goal machine Robert Lewandowski and Napoli striker Arkadiusz Milik.
Joining Napoli's Milik on Adam Nawalka's roster are eight other players that ply their trades professionally in Italy: Milik's club teammate Piotr Zielinski, Sampdoria trio David Kownacki, Karol Linetty, and Bartosz Bereszynski, shot-stoppers Wojciech Szczesny (Juventus) and Lukasz Skorupski (Roma), SPAL defender Thiago Cionek, and Palermo midfielder Pawel Dawidowicz.
Nawalka has until the June 4 deadline to trim the squad to 23 players, as Poland faces a pair of friendlies with Chile and Lithuania before opening group play versus Senegal on June 19.
Here's a look at Poland's preliminary 35-man squad:
GK: Lukasz Fabianski (Swansea City), Bartosz Bialkowski (Ipswich Town), Lukasz Skorupski (Roma), Wojciech Szczesny (Juventus)
DF: Jan Bednarek (Southampton), Bartosz Bereszynski (Sampdoria), Thiago Cionek (SPAL), Kamil Glik (Monaco), Artur Jedrzejczyk (Legia Warsaw), Marcin Kaminski (VfB Stuttgart), Tomasz Kedziora (Dynamo Kyiv), Michal Pazdan (Legia Warsaw), Lukasz Piszczek (Borussia Dortmund)
MF: Jakub Blaszczykowski (Wolfsburg), Pawel Dawidowicz (Palermo), Przemyslaw Frankowski (Jagiellonia Bialystok), Jacek Goralski (Ludogorets Razgrad), Kamil Grosicki (Hull City), Damian Kadzior (Gornik Zabrze), Grzegorz Krychowiak (West Brom), Rafal Kurzawa (Gornik Zabrze), Karol Linetty (Sampdoria), Krzysztof Maczynski (Legia Warsaw), Maciej Makuszewski (Lech Poznan), Slawomir Peszko (Lechia Gdansk), Maciej Rybus (Lokomotiv Moscow), Sebastian Szymanski (Legia Warsaw), Piotr Zielinski (Napoli), Szymon Zurkowski (Gornik Zabrze)
FW: Dawid Kownacki (Sampdoria) Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich), Arkadiusz Milik (Napoli), Krzysztof Piatek (Cracovia), Lukasz Teodorczyk (Anderlecht), Kamil Wilczek)