CSM Oradea is Romanian champion once again. The team coached by Dorin Costras won the third match of the Romanian Super League final, played against Steaua Bucharest, with 11-8 and secured a new title, the 8th in a row. ...
Dual Australian water polo Olympian and Aussie Sharks men’s captain Rhys Howden is out of action for up to six to eight months after injuring his ACL on Sunday. Howden injured his knee during a social game of touch football with family and friends. It is Howden’s first major injury of his career. Howden visited Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS) doctors on Tuesday, with the 27-year-old requiring surgery...
With just one round to go, the National Water Polo League (NWPL) is hotting up with the race to the final six, and the contest is hottest between the Cronulla Sharks who sit in sixth and the UTS Balmain Tigers who are a close seventh. Meanwhile the Brisbane Barracudas have continued their unassailable lead by maintaining their unbeaten streak for the season. ...
In a dominant unbeaten season Olympiacos have retained the Greek national title by beating rivals Vouliagmeni in the championship play-offs finals 3-0. The last victory, on Sunday, ment the squad from Piraeus secured their 28th national championship in team history and none would have been obtained in more dominant fashion than the display of this season. Olympiacos posted a perfect 27-0-0 record...
In just his first season and after already having agreed to part ways next summer the cooperation between German record champion Wasserfreunde Spandau Berlin and Hungarian head coach András Gyöngyösi comes to an even sooner end. The club announced Monday that Gyöngyösi steps down with immediate effect after irreconcilable differences between coach and club had arisen, so that further cooperation was...
Water Polo match played in 1927 in Lehrte, a small industrial town and railway junction in North-Western Germany. The local swimming club, SV Lehrte, was founded in 1921 right after the end of World War I in the early days of the so-called “Weimar Republic” . The first venue of the Club was a pond with fixed sides. Water polo matches in Germany were mostly played on the occasion of Swimming Galas...
A real "quiet" round, this 18th round of the French Pro A League. A day where, except the draw of Reims definitely in great shape, all the results were consistent with the logic of the rankings. Teams of the “big three” have behaved as such and other clubs, each at their respective levels, have played their part, starting with Strasbourg. ...
VIDEO WP ABS MAS MEDI 9 CNB 4 (26-4-14) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk71KhFxmOU&feature=share&list=UU3x5XcgikICBHKlKQJKQWwQ Más videos y artículos waterpolo en: http://dosyelwaterpolo.blogspot.com.es/ Sosiego y Calma...
The Spanish league's final regular season round was played last weekend with the top four teams' perspective already reaching beyond as the play-off contenders were determined earlier. Red-hot title favorites and defending champions Barceloneta will face 4th seed Mediterrani in the semi-finals while an interesting battle in the second semi-final features 2nd ranked Terrassa and number three Mataro...
The team of California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) winner of the Southern California Championship in 1914. Source: private collection ...
The anticipated Montenegrin play-offs semi-final match-up between reigning champs Budva and rivals Primorac will come down to a decisive third game next Tuesday. On Saturday Primorac bounced back from a 12-8 loss in game 1 by beating Budva at home 7-5 to force the decider. A nice finish in which the home side scored the game's final two goals to decide the outcome in their favour set the final score....
The tone in the Italian play-offs semi-finals is set after round 1 already. Both regular season winners Pro Recco and runners-up Brescia posted big wins at home to start off the battle with the final four teams in the race for the national championship. Recco, playing without goalie Stefano Tempesti and centre-back Niccolo Gitto, walked away from Savona in the second half to win 9-3 while Brescia...
Mladost have completed a major upset in the Croatian championship play-offs by eliminating defending champions Jug Dubrovnik in the semi-finals keeping the squad from southern Croatia out of the finals for the first time in 15 years. After POSK topped Mladost to take the national title in the '97/'98 season Jug had always been present in the final battle for the championship but that streak was ended...
FHSAA Championships (via @AndreMHSports ) The spring season is coming to a rapid close as high school water polo in Florida crowns two champions today, regionals are well under way in Illinois and Texas to name just two such states, and women's collegiate conference championships have already begun (a nod to Arizona State for upsetting defending NCAA champs USC in their first round contest). Torrents...
Water Polo match in Ismailia, Egypt in the 1930's Source: Private collection ...
The team of Union Sportive Cettoise (Sette, France) in the 1920's . At the back of the picture there is stamped "Warer -Polo-Foot-Ball". This is the team that won against Montpellier with 3 - 0. The team : 1. Fabre (arrière gauche) 2. Lapart (demi centre capitaine) 3. Roche (ailier gauche) 4. Granier (arriére droit) 5. Broussard (goal keeper) 6. Capelle (Ailier droit) 7. Chiosa (avant centre) . Source:...
Szolnok was always going to be the favorite in the semi-final match up with Honvéd, but the ease with which the team of István Kovács confirmed the expectations was impressive. In 3 matches Honvéd was never allowed the confidence or belief that a stunt was possible. The offensive power of Szolnok simply proved to be too much. 12-6, 10-5 and eventually 16-9 ment a 3-0 victory for Szolnok as they advance...
Last year's championship battle was epic and both Serbian powerhouses look to be on the repeat-mode for this season's Serbian play-offs finals. The best-of-five series kicked off on Friday with game 1 in Crvena zvezda's Tasmajdan pool in Belgrade where a back-and-forth contest was won by the defending champions 12-11 after a nice fourth-quarter response to Radnicki's comeback in the third session....
A round of transition. So could be described this 17th round of the French Pro A league, played last weekend. Indeed, Sète-Nice was a priority, the only match with some real uncertainty about the outcome. Nevertheless the true, and quite unexpected, surprise came from the Champagne, where Reims continues its "resurrection". ...
The play-offs are what every water polo fan is looking forward to the entire year. This is where the men are separated from the boys and heroes arise. One hero stood up in the match between KSI and YBL on Tuesday afternoon. After the victory last weekend KSI needed only one more win to advance to the next round. Led by Zoltán Major with 3 goals, YBL came out strong and put KSI under pressure early....