Belgrade 2016: the preview 2/2
ROSTERS
Men's participants rosters
Serbia:
Gojko Pijetlovic, Branislav Mitrovic (goalkeepers), Dusan Mandic, Zivko Gocic, Sava Randjelovic, Milos Cuk, Dusko Pijetlovic, Slobodan Nikic, Milan Aleksic, Nikola Jaksic, Filip Filipovic, Andrija Prlainovic, Stefan Mitrovic.
Greece:
Konstantinos Flegkas, Stefanos Galanopoulos (goalkeepers), Christos Afroudakis, Ioannis Fountoulis, Angelos Vlahopoulos, Emannouil Mylonakis, Konstantinos Mourikis, Christodoulos Kolomvos, Georgios Dervisis, Konstantinos Genidounias, Evangelos Delakas, Kyriakos Pontikeas, Alexandros Gounas.
Spain:
Daniel Lopez, Iñaki Aguilar (goalkeepers), Marc Minguell, Marc Roca, Roger Tahull, Albert Español, Balazs Sziranyi, Alberto Munarriz, Francisco Fernandez, Blai Mallarach, Gonzalo Echenique, Guillermo Molina, Gonzalo Lopez-Escribano.
Italy:
Marco Del Lungo, Stefano Tempesti (goalkeepers), Christian Presciutti, Fabio Baraldi, Valentino Gallo, Matteo Aicardi, Michael Bodegas, Francesco Di Fulvio, Massimo Giacoppo, Alex Giorgetti, Pietro Figlioli, Niccolò Gitto, Stefano Luongo.
Croatia:
Josip Pavić, Marko Bijač (goalkeepers), Damir Burić, Andro Bušlje, Marko Macan, Luka Lončar, Boris Pavlović, Maro Joković, Antonio Petković, Anđelo Šetka, Sandro Sukno, Luka Bukić, Ante Vukičević.
Montenegro:
Dejan Lazovic, Milos Scepanovic (goalkeepers), Drasko Brguljan, Vjekoslav Paskovic, Darko Brguljan, Aleksandar Radovic, Mladjan Janovic, Nikola Janovic, Aleksandar Ivovic, Sasa Misic, Predrag Jokic, Antonio Petrovic, Nikola Vukcevic.
Hungary:
David Bisztritsanyi, Viktor Nagy (goalkeepers), Bence Batori, Adam Decker, Balazs Erdelyi, Miklos Gor-Nagy, Balazs Harai, Norbert Hosnyanszky, Gabor Kis, Krisztian Manhercz, Daniel Varga, Denes Varga, Marton Vamos.
Romania:
Dragos Stoenescu, Marius Tic (goalkeepers), Cosmin Radu, Tiberiu Negrean, Mihnea Chioveanu, Mihnea Gheorghe, Alex Popoviciu, Roland Szabo, Andrei Buşilă, Dimitri Goanţă, Alexandru Ghiban, Daniel Teohari, Nicolae Oanta.
France:
Remi Garsau, Jonathan Moriame (goalkeepers), Romain Blary, Alexandre Camarasa, Ugo Crousillat, Michael Izdinski, Enzo Khasz, Igor Kovacevic, Manuel Laversanne, Mehdi Marzouki, Remi Saudadier, Thibaut Simon, Petar Tomasevic.
Netherlands:
Ruben Hoepelman, Eelco Wagenaar (goalkeepers), Roeland Spijker, Joep van den Bersselaar, Ruud van der Horst, Lars Gottemaker, Luuk Gielen, Jesse Koopman, Lars Reuten, Thomas Lucas, Robin Lindhout, Yoran Frauenfelder, Jorn Winkelhorst.
Slovakia:
Lukas Kozmer, Martin Famera, Juraj Zatovic, Jozef Hrosik, Lukas Duric, Samuel Balaz, Lukas Seman, Maros Tkac, Tomas Bielik, Kristian Polovic, Martin Kolarik, Tomas Bruder, Michal Gogola.
Malta:
Alan Borg Cole, Niki Lanzon, Jerome Gabarretta, Nicholas Bugelli, Mark Meli, Matthew Zammit, Stevie Camilleri, Jordan Camilleri, John Brownrigg, Aurelien Cousin, Ben Plumpton,Dino Zammit, Nicky Grixti.
Georgia:
Nikoloz Shubladze, Beka Kavtaradze, Damir Crepulia, Marko Elez, Andria Bitadze, Marko Jelaca, Giorgi Khvedeliani, Mixeil Baghaturia, Zurab Rurua, Konstantine Gegelashvili, Khvicha Jakhaia, Revaz Imnaishvili, Ivan Struichi.
Russia:
To be announced January 9.
Turkey:
Atilla Sezer, Mahir Can Ağkurt, Srdan Aksentijevic, Oytun Okman, Arslan Sutalo, Osman Selim Gülenç, Cemil Bahadır Özbakış, Nadir Sönmez, Ali Can Yılmaz, Mihajlo Korolija, Halil Beşkardeşler, Alican Çağatay, Deniz Şen.
Germany:
Moritz Schenkel, Roger Kong (goalkeeperS), Mateo Cuk, Maurice Jüngling, Tobias Preuss, Marin Restovic, Marko Stamm, Dennis Eidner, Julian Real, Paul Schüler, Heiko Nossek, Timo van der Bosch, Erik Bukowski.
Facts & figures, by LEN
… HISTORY: The European Water Polo Championships celebrated their première in 1926. The first event was held in Budapest. Until today 31 editions in the men’s event were carried out from 1926 until 2014. The first event in the women’s competition took place in 1985. The last edition took place in Budapest/Hungary in 2014.
… PARTICIPANTS: 16 male and 12 female teams will fight to claim a spot at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (August 5-21) as the new European champions will qualify directly for the Games. With a total of 28 teams from 17 LEN Member Federations, the event in Serbia’s capital will be the biggest European Water Polo Championships ever staged in Europe, surpassing the previous record participation of 16 male and nine female teams in Bonn/Germany in 1989. The new European champions will be crowned after exactly 100 matches.
… HOSTS: For the second time after 2006 Belgrade will stage the Water Polo Europeans. In the current edition alongside the Danube and Sava Rivers, however, the hosts choose to challenge themselves. Ten years ago the championship matches were played at the legendary swimming pools of Tasmajdan (men) and Banjica (women). This time games will be contested in a temporary pool installed at the Kombank Arena.
… LOCATION: The arena has a maximum crowd capacity of up to 25,000 spectators and has already been the venue of numerous European Championships, with the men’s 2005 European Basketball Championships being the first sport event held here. After some alterations, the Kombank Arena will seat approximately 11,000 spectators during the European Water Polo Championships (since one part of the field of play is used for the warm-up pool). A “sold out” session will mean that the venue will witness the largest number of spectators ever seen at a water polo match at the Europeans. The advance ticket-sale has already started on December 1.
… POOL: By the way, to date games at the European Water Polo Championships were played only once in a temporary pool: it happened in 1995, when the men’s tournament was staged at the legendary Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna and Italy clinched the gold medal (the women’s final round was also played here with Italy winning gold there – so far the only occasion when the two titles went to the same country).
... NEWCOMER: The women’s team of Turkey has not yet competed in a European Championship, they qualified for the first time. Croatia’s women’s team also qualified for the first time for the 2016 Europeans in Belgrade; as hosts of the 2010 edition in Zagreb they were automatically qualified. In the men’s tournament Malta will celebrate its premiere on the European water polo stage (they played at the Olympics in Berlin 1936). Even though the national team already had played three European Championships in former years – with different competition modus then: In Split in 1981 Malta secured a 10th-place finish in Group B. Four years later in Sofia they finished in eighth position in Group B. Malta earned a fourth place-result in Group C in Strasbourg in 1987. At that time, these groups played at the same venue as Group A.
... COMPETITION MODUS: In the round of the last 16, the wheat will be separated from the chaff in the men’s water polo event as the first placed teams will meet the fourth-placed sides, according to the draw, in the crossover matches. Likewise, the runners-up will face the third-placed sides. The respective winners will make it to the quarter-finals while the defeated teams will fight for the ranks ninth to 16th in knockout rounds. In the women’s tournament the teams ranked 1-4 of both preliminary round groups will qualify for the quarters and will then determine the semi-final berths. The two teams on fifth position after the preliminary rounds will play for ranks 9-10. The sixth-placed teams will determine the ranks 11-12.
... WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TICKETS: At the European Championships in Belgrade the teams will not only be fighting for a ticket in the Olympic qualifying tournament and to the Olympic Games in Rio. Their participation in the next World Championships in Budapest (July 15-30, 2017) is at stake, too. The three best teams in the men’s and women’s tournament in Belgrade qualify for the Worlds in Hungary’s capital. As host of the World Championships, Hungary has already secured its berth in both the men’s and women’s tournament.
Men's participants rosters
Serbia:
Gojko Pijetlovic, Branislav Mitrovic (goalkeepers), Dusan Mandic, Zivko Gocic, Sava Randjelovic, Milos Cuk, Dusko Pijetlovic, Slobodan Nikic, Milan Aleksic, Nikola Jaksic, Filip Filipovic, Andrija Prlainovic, Stefan Mitrovic.
Greece:
Konstantinos Flegkas, Stefanos Galanopoulos (goalkeepers), Christos Afroudakis, Ioannis Fountoulis, Angelos Vlahopoulos, Emannouil Mylonakis, Konstantinos Mourikis, Christodoulos Kolomvos, Georgios Dervisis, Konstantinos Genidounias, Evangelos Delakas, Kyriakos Pontikeas, Alexandros Gounas.
Spain:
Daniel Lopez, Iñaki Aguilar (goalkeepers), Marc Minguell, Marc Roca, Roger Tahull, Albert Español, Balazs Sziranyi, Alberto Munarriz, Francisco Fernandez, Blai Mallarach, Gonzalo Echenique, Guillermo Molina, Gonzalo Lopez-Escribano.
Italy:
Marco Del Lungo, Stefano Tempesti (goalkeepers), Christian Presciutti, Fabio Baraldi, Valentino Gallo, Matteo Aicardi, Michael Bodegas, Francesco Di Fulvio, Massimo Giacoppo, Alex Giorgetti, Pietro Figlioli, Niccolò Gitto, Stefano Luongo.
Croatia:
Josip Pavić, Marko Bijač (goalkeepers), Damir Burić, Andro Bušlje, Marko Macan, Luka Lončar, Boris Pavlović, Maro Joković, Antonio Petković, Anđelo Šetka, Sandro Sukno, Luka Bukić, Ante Vukičević.
Montenegro:
Dejan Lazovic, Milos Scepanovic (goalkeepers), Drasko Brguljan, Vjekoslav Paskovic, Darko Brguljan, Aleksandar Radovic, Mladjan Janovic, Nikola Janovic, Aleksandar Ivovic, Sasa Misic, Predrag Jokic, Antonio Petrovic, Nikola Vukcevic.
Hungary:
David Bisztritsanyi, Viktor Nagy (goalkeepers), Bence Batori, Adam Decker, Balazs Erdelyi, Miklos Gor-Nagy, Balazs Harai, Norbert Hosnyanszky, Gabor Kis, Krisztian Manhercz, Daniel Varga, Denes Varga, Marton Vamos.
Romania:
Dragos Stoenescu, Marius Tic (goalkeepers), Cosmin Radu, Tiberiu Negrean, Mihnea Chioveanu, Mihnea Gheorghe, Alex Popoviciu, Roland Szabo, Andrei Buşilă, Dimitri Goanţă, Alexandru Ghiban, Daniel Teohari, Nicolae Oanta.
France:
Remi Garsau, Jonathan Moriame (goalkeepers), Romain Blary, Alexandre Camarasa, Ugo Crousillat, Michael Izdinski, Enzo Khasz, Igor Kovacevic, Manuel Laversanne, Mehdi Marzouki, Remi Saudadier, Thibaut Simon, Petar Tomasevic.
Netherlands:
Ruben Hoepelman, Eelco Wagenaar (goalkeepers), Roeland Spijker, Joep van den Bersselaar, Ruud van der Horst, Lars Gottemaker, Luuk Gielen, Jesse Koopman, Lars Reuten, Thomas Lucas, Robin Lindhout, Yoran Frauenfelder, Jorn Winkelhorst.
Slovakia:
Lukas Kozmer, Martin Famera, Juraj Zatovic, Jozef Hrosik, Lukas Duric, Samuel Balaz, Lukas Seman, Maros Tkac, Tomas Bielik, Kristian Polovic, Martin Kolarik, Tomas Bruder, Michal Gogola.
Malta:
Alan Borg Cole, Niki Lanzon, Jerome Gabarretta, Nicholas Bugelli, Mark Meli, Matthew Zammit, Stevie Camilleri, Jordan Camilleri, John Brownrigg, Aurelien Cousin, Ben Plumpton,Dino Zammit, Nicky Grixti.
Georgia:
Nikoloz Shubladze, Beka Kavtaradze, Damir Crepulia, Marko Elez, Andria Bitadze, Marko Jelaca, Giorgi Khvedeliani, Mixeil Baghaturia, Zurab Rurua, Konstantine Gegelashvili, Khvicha Jakhaia, Revaz Imnaishvili, Ivan Struichi.
Russia:
To be announced January 9.
Turkey:
Atilla Sezer, Mahir Can Ağkurt, Srdan Aksentijevic, Oytun Okman, Arslan Sutalo, Osman Selim Gülenç, Cemil Bahadır Özbakış, Nadir Sönmez, Ali Can Yılmaz, Mihajlo Korolija, Halil Beşkardeşler, Alican Çağatay, Deniz Şen.
Germany:
Moritz Schenkel, Roger Kong (goalkeeperS), Mateo Cuk, Maurice Jüngling, Tobias Preuss, Marin Restovic, Marko Stamm, Dennis Eidner, Julian Real, Paul Schüler, Heiko Nossek, Timo van der Bosch, Erik Bukowski.
Facts & figures, by LEN
… HISTORY: The European Water Polo Championships celebrated their première in 1926. The first event was held in Budapest. Until today 31 editions in the men’s event were carried out from 1926 until 2014. The first event in the women’s competition took place in 1985. The last edition took place in Budapest/Hungary in 2014.
… PARTICIPANTS: 16 male and 12 female teams will fight to claim a spot at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (August 5-21) as the new European champions will qualify directly for the Games. With a total of 28 teams from 17 LEN Member Federations, the event in Serbia’s capital will be the biggest European Water Polo Championships ever staged in Europe, surpassing the previous record participation of 16 male and nine female teams in Bonn/Germany in 1989. The new European champions will be crowned after exactly 100 matches.
… HOSTS: For the second time after 2006 Belgrade will stage the Water Polo Europeans. In the current edition alongside the Danube and Sava Rivers, however, the hosts choose to challenge themselves. Ten years ago the championship matches were played at the legendary swimming pools of Tasmajdan (men) and Banjica (women). This time games will be contested in a temporary pool installed at the Kombank Arena.
… LOCATION: The arena has a maximum crowd capacity of up to 25,000 spectators and has already been the venue of numerous European Championships, with the men’s 2005 European Basketball Championships being the first sport event held here. After some alterations, the Kombank Arena will seat approximately 11,000 spectators during the European Water Polo Championships (since one part of the field of play is used for the warm-up pool). A “sold out” session will mean that the venue will witness the largest number of spectators ever seen at a water polo match at the Europeans. The advance ticket-sale has already started on December 1.
… POOL: By the way, to date games at the European Water Polo Championships were played only once in a temporary pool: it happened in 1995, when the men’s tournament was staged at the legendary Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna and Italy clinched the gold medal (the women’s final round was also played here with Italy winning gold there – so far the only occasion when the two titles went to the same country).
... NEWCOMER: The women’s team of Turkey has not yet competed in a European Championship, they qualified for the first time. Croatia’s women’s team also qualified for the first time for the 2016 Europeans in Belgrade; as hosts of the 2010 edition in Zagreb they were automatically qualified. In the men’s tournament Malta will celebrate its premiere on the European water polo stage (they played at the Olympics in Berlin 1936). Even though the national team already had played three European Championships in former years – with different competition modus then: In Split in 1981 Malta secured a 10th-place finish in Group B. Four years later in Sofia they finished in eighth position in Group B. Malta earned a fourth place-result in Group C in Strasbourg in 1987. At that time, these groups played at the same venue as Group A.
... COMPETITION MODUS: In the round of the last 16, the wheat will be separated from the chaff in the men’s water polo event as the first placed teams will meet the fourth-placed sides, according to the draw, in the crossover matches. Likewise, the runners-up will face the third-placed sides. The respective winners will make it to the quarter-finals while the defeated teams will fight for the ranks ninth to 16th in knockout rounds. In the women’s tournament the teams ranked 1-4 of both preliminary round groups will qualify for the quarters and will then determine the semi-final berths. The two teams on fifth position after the preliminary rounds will play for ranks 9-10. The sixth-placed teams will determine the ranks 11-12.
... WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TICKETS: At the European Championships in Belgrade the teams will not only be fighting for a ticket in the Olympic qualifying tournament and to the Olympic Games in Rio. Their participation in the next World Championships in Budapest (July 15-30, 2017) is at stake, too. The three best teams in the men’s and women’s tournament in Belgrade qualify for the Worlds in Hungary’s capital. As host of the World Championships, Hungary has already secured its berth in both the men’s and women’s tournament.