No hope for Ryan Benesch playing for Czech national team

Most of Czech national team suited up for an exhibition game against a select team from participants in the annual Ales Hrebesky Memorial, held in Prague at the end of April. There was a guy plaing in a jersey named Benesch. But he certainly was not the best scorer of the NLL Ryan Benesch...

The game was the final chance for players to impress head coach Jim Veltman an his staff. During the game, the crowd noticed one player wearing Benesch on the back, informed ilindoor.com. The best scorer of NLL is not a member of Canadian team; does he "return" back to his old country?

“I saw the same jersey and thought oh, that’s kind of cool,” Veltman told ilindoor.com. “But that guy didn’t play as good as the Ryan Benesch we know. He didn’t have quite the same hands,” he added.

The jersey had Benesch’s name added to the back because the Swarm sniper had originally agreed to play for the Czechs but has had to decline the opportunity.

Veltman says it the problem was the same as with Czech goalie Mike Poulin. “These guys take a lot of time off work for the NLL season and to ask them to take another 10 days for the tournament is just too much.”

“Unfortunately I had to tell them at the last minute that I wasn’t going to be able to make it,” Benesch confirmed. “They might have made that jersey for me already, cause I did tell them that I was going to play for them. It’s too bad. It would be nice to go there. I can’t get the time off work.”

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