Polish coach Pawel Janas has named his squad for the upcoming FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Austria and Wales coming up at the end of next week.

The squad list sees the return of Greek Champions League contenders Panathinaikos' striker Emmanuel Olisadebe, who after 18 months out of the Polish squad with a persistent knee injury, has found his form again, and scored two vital goals for his club, against fellow Pole Radoslaw Sobolewski (also called up), in the recent game against Wisla Krakow in the knock-out stages of the Champions League.

The squad also includes Jacek Krzynowek, the pacy midfielder from Bayer Leverkeusen, and Celtic FC's Maciej Zurawski playing up front.
The line-up does not include Liverpool's 'keeper jerzy Dudek, who is out with an elbow injury, with Celtic's Artur Boruc likely to take his place.

The return of Olisadebe is a worrying sign for John Toshak's Wales team, who face Poland in Warsaw on the 8th of September, after the Poles play Austria in the Polish city of Chorzow on September 3, which may well see the elimination of some of the lower placed teams in the group. A win for Wales is a must for there to be any chance of being in Germany's finals next summer.

The Polish squad in full:

Goalkeepers: Artur Boruc (Celtic), Wojciech Kowalewski (Spartak Moscow), Sebastian Przyrowski (Groclin Grodzisk)

Defenders: Marcin Baszczynski (Wisla Krakow), Jacek Bak (Al Rayan, Qatar), Tomasz Klos (Wisla Krakow), Tomasz Rzasa (ADO Den Haag), Mariusz Jop (FK Moscow), Dariusz Dudka (Wisla Krakow), Michal Zewlakow (Anderlecht), Bartosz Bosacki (Nuremberg)

Midfielder: Damian Gorawski (FK Moscow), Kamil Kosowski (Kaiserslautern), Jacek Krzynowek (Bayer Leverkusen), Sebastian Mila, Arkadiusz Radomski (both Austria Vienna), Mariusz Lewandowski (Shakhtar Donetsk), Radoslaw Sobolewski (Wisla Krakow), Miroslaw Szymkowiak (Trabzonspor), Euzebiusz Smolarek (Borussia Dortmund)

Forwards: Maciej Zurawski (Celtic), Tomasz Frankowski (Wisla Krakow), Andrzej Niedzielan (NEC Nijmegen), Grzegorz Rasiak (Derby County), Emmanuel Olisadebe (Panathinaikos).

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