Making up for a six-goal loss in one game is not easy to do. It's the clear but daunting task Mladost Zagreb is up to coming into the LEN Euro Cup finals second leg, to be played in Croatia's capital Wednesday. A dominant display by Spartak Volgograd in leg one, especially in the first half, led to the big win and seemingly comfortable situation for the Russian powerhouse. Spartak can become the third...
With the final round of the regular season in the books, the four best teams of the Adriatic league take centre stage to battle for this year's title. No major upsets or chances in the top 4 of the table were noted last weekend as the teams geared up for what promises to be an exciting finish of the season, especially for the two favorites; last year's finalists Primorje and Jug. Both recorded clear,...
With the three teams sure of Final Six participation out of group B now known, the attention on the final two days of action in the Champions League preliminary phase shifts to the highly competitive group A where still a final decision is to be made. Two particularly big matches are to be contested in Dubrovnik, Croatia and Piraeus, Greece on Wednesday in round 9 of the prelims. Jug hosts current...
The Sydney University Lions have walked away with the Simms Cup, named in memory of former Balmain Tiger Grant Simms at Dawn Fraser Baths on Saturday. The Tigers took to the water in pink in support of breast cancer, and the Lions in blue, the official colour of the Cancer Council NSW. The ‘Clash of the Cats for Cancer’ was decided with Sydney University prevailing 16-8. While the result is important...
Another fantastic day of Water Polo action at the Aberdeen Sports Village brought thrashings, drama and a couple of entertaining draws as the competition gathered momentum. England’s Women team are one of the favourites for gold at this tournament and showed exactly why with a demolition of Wales in the first match of the day. With a host Team GB players on the team, the English cruelly dispatched...
The race for the fourth and final play-off spot in the Spanish league looks to be coming down to a two-way battle between current fourth ranked Mediterrani and Sabadell after this weekend's 20th round was played. Mediterrani held second-ranked Terrassa to a 7-all draw at home in a close game with no goals in the final period while Sabadell posted an easy victory over A.R. Concepcion in Madrid winning...
Saturday morning the water polo community was shocked to hear that Hungarian international and Szeged star Márton Szivos had suffered a heart attack during the final minutes of the round 25 match against Vasas on Friday evening. Luckily, good thinking by his surroundings led to a quick diagnosis and immediate surgery to avoid dangerous complications. Waterpolo.hu visited Szivós to see how he was doing...
The reigning Serbian champions look well underway to another play-offs finals appearance after game 1 of the semi-finals against Vojvodina ended in a comfortable, even one-sided 14-4 victory. The Dejan Savic coached side will face the young Vojvodina squad next week in game 2 of the best-of-three series. On Thursday Zvezda took flight in the second half of the game scoring ten goals in that span to...
With just one more regular season round of play remaining in the Italian league the reigning champions Pro Recco have more or less secured their top spot going into the play-offs. In a high scoring contest the visitors edged Canottieri Napoli 12-20 with centre forward Matteo Aicardi scoring a dominant six goals in the victory. His colleague and national team mate Fabio Baraldi netted five for the...
The round 1 games of the championship play-offs will be played on April 19/20, April 22/23, April 25/26, April 28/29 and May 6/7. The winners of round 1 will then meet each other to decide for the final league standings on May 9/10, May 12/13, May 15/16, May 18/19 and a potential decisive game on May 21. With the dates announced the realization of the nearing end of the regular season hits like a...
Scotland’s Mens and Womens teams got off to a great start in the Commonwealth Water Polo Championships with both teams recording wins in their first matches in the competition. Both teams faced Wales on the first day of the Championship, which ends with the finals next Saturday (12th April). There were wins also for Malta Men and England Men in the earlier games. This year’s competition held at Aberdeen’s...
Greek powerhouse Olympiacos Piraeus is the new LEN Trophy winner. A close final game in Florence on Saturday was won 10-9 over the home team, thanks to a late goal by Australian international Bronwen Knox. The bronze medal was grabbed by Ugra Khanty Mansiysk who rolled past favorites and Russian champions Kinef Kirishi in a rare one sided display 8-20. ...
Member of the Hungarian 2013 World Championships gold medal squad, Márton Szivós, underwent surgery yesterday evening after suffering a heart attack during a league match against Vasas. The Szeged star had just scored the equalizer when he felt a sudden pain in the chest and back area. After a short break at the side of the pool Szivós returned to the water to eventually beat Vasas by 1 goal and bring...
Both Russian sides did not make it to the LEN Trophy final and will have to watch the teams of Olympiacos and home side NGM Firenze battling for this year's first European club trophy of the season after clear victories in the semi-finals on Friday. Favorites Olympiacos held off Russian champions Kinef Kirishi in a big match-up 8-5, followed by the nationally televised game of Firenze facing second...
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In cooperation with the Water Polo Legends blog we will highlight great moments and achievements from the rich history of water polo in a weekly post. In this week's installment we take a look at some of the greater goalkeepers the game has known. First up is Milorad Krivokapić, goalie of Yugoslavia, pictured in action during the game against Hungary at the Rome 1983 European Championships. Krivokapić...
In this year's new format for the women's European club competition losing the quarter-finals doesn't mean your done. In fact, this weekend the fifth to eighth ranked teams in Europe will battle for this year's LEN Trophy in the Final Four tournament, set to go underway Friday in Florence, Italy. And with a current balanced top of women's club water polo in Europe three of four sides this weekend...
The 15th round of the French Pro A league caused no real surprise, and it is likely to last for several more rounds. Indeed, the teams qualified for the "final four" have long been known, only the order of their final ranking (which will determine the semi-finals) remains unknown. What is commonly known as the "soft ubelly" of the championship will remain “soft” until the end, and the suspense is...
The European Championships will be even more crowded from the 2016 edition onwards. The LEN Bureau, after meeting over the weekend in Istanbul, has decided that the men's and women's tournaments will be played with 16 and 12 teams respectively expanding with an additional four sides, LEN announced Wednesday. The 2016 European Championships to be held in Belgrade, Serbia will have the honor of hosting...