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Water Polo 2022 - 2024 Discussion Thread


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Now it's the Men's Youth World Championships. Unfortunately our boys lost 9-8 to Spain today in the quarterfinals. The referees were tragic I must say...

 

The big surprise is that :NED won 12-7 against :MNE to make the semifinals :yikes:

I always wondered why the Dutch men were not a top team in water polo while their women are, maybe this new generation is really good though?! We beat them only 12-11 in the group stage. I was surprised it was so close but I guess the Dutch really are good :yes

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On 8/18/2022 at 2:03 AM, Makedonas said:

Now it's the Men's Youth World Championships. Unfortunately our boys lost 9-8 to Spain today in the quarterfinals. The referees were tragic I must say...

 

The big surprise is that :NED won 12-7 against :MNE to make the semifinals :yikes:

I always wondered why the Dutch men were not a top team in water polo while their women are, maybe this new generation is really good though?! We beat them only 12-11 in the group stage. I was surprised it was so close but I guess the Dutch really are good :yes

Well, I was wondering that too. I asked a friend from the waterpolo community in the Netherlands and he told me it's way too early to say there is a really good new generation. But he also said there are more talents than in average years. So we have to wait. but there is a little hope for Dutch men's waterpolo :-). 

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On 8/18/2022 at 2:03 AM, Makedonas said:

Now it's the Men's Youth World Championships. Unfortunately our boys lost 9-8 to Spain today in the quarterfinals. The referees were tragic I must say...

 

The big surprise is that :NED won 12-7 against :MNE to make the semifinals :yikes:

I always wondered why the Dutch men were not a top team in water polo while their women are, maybe this new generation is really good though?! We beat them only 12-11 in the group stage. I was surprised it was so close but I guess the Dutch really are good :yes

We tend to have better national teams on the womens side than the mens side in most team sports: waterpolo, volleyball, handball and field hockey. I guess one factor is also in the general sense a larger share of the boys athletic talent is concentrated in football.

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5 minutes ago, Jinzha said:

We tend to have better national teams on the womens side than the mens side in most team sports: waterpolo, volleyball, handball and field hockey. I guess one factor is also in the general sense a larger share of the boys athletic talent is concentrated in football.

Also the dutch women ice hockey team is miles ahead of the men team

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11 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Also the dutch women ice hockey team is miles ahead of the men team

I believe a stray dog on ice would be better than our ice hockey teams:p.

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Just now, Jinzha said:

I believe a stray dog on ice would be better than our ice hockey teams:p.

nah just give your speed skaters sticks and no one will catch them anymore. :p

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1 minute ago, hckošice said:

nah just give your speed skaters sticks and no one will catch them anymore. :p

Sven Kramer and Naomi van As (former field hockey star) recently had their second kid, so it's a matter of time for our Ice Hockey teams!

 

But we're getting really offtopic here:zip:

I hope our waterpolo U19 boys will have a good development!

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U16 World Championships:

 

:HUN beat :GRE in both finals to win gold for boys and girls

 

Our national teams won 6 medals in 2021 and so far 5 in 2022. None of them gold...

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18 hours ago, Makedonas said:

U16 World Championships:

 

:HUN beat :GRE in both finals to win gold for boys and girls

 

Our national teams won 6 medals in 2021 and so far 5 in 2022. None of them gold...

Those World Championships were probably first ever (in any age level) where :POL take part and even we win several matches and finished on 17th place out of 25 teams! Not that bad result!  

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  • 4 weeks later...

We beat Croatia 8-7 to make the semifinals of the Men's U19 European Championships. We will now play Spain.

 

After 12 medals from our national teams, but none of them gold, in the last two years, maybe this time we will finally win gold? Lucky number 13?!

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