Mateusz Grochal: Inspiration and education.

The EuroHockey Institute Podcast

From the beginning of his adventure with hockey, a Wart Poznań club player. He combines his field hockey adventure with a coaching career. From 2014 he was the coach of the senior team of Warta Poznań and in 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 the Savona Hockey coach (Italy) during the Indoor season.

In youth groups, Mateusz Grochal worked in the Grunwald Poznań team (2013-2016) and from 2016 until today with AZS Politechnika Poznańska. In the national teams in 2009-2017, a video analyst at the PZHT central training groups, in 2013-2018 was a coach of the Polish national youth boys team U16. From 2018, he was a Polish national team coach during the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires.

The greatest successes with national teams include:

2014 - a silver medal at the EuroHockey Youth Championship U16 in Vienna;

2016 - a silver medal at the EuroHockey Indoor Women Championship in Minsk;

2017 - gold medal at the EuroHockey5s Youth U16 Championship in Wałcz;

2018 - 5th place at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires.

Successes with clubs:

2010/2011 - Italian Indoor Championship U21;

2010/2011 and 2018/2019 - Bronze Medal of the Polish Championships;

2017/2018 - Silver medal of the National Youth Olympics;

2018/2019 - Gold medal of the National Youth Olympics and the Polish Indoor Vice-Championship for U16;

In addition to professional and coaching activities in 2011-2017 - a member of the Development Committee at the European Hockey Federation, in 2014-2016 - coach and coordinator of youth staff at PZHT. From 2019 - PZHT development specialist.