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Men's Water Polo LEN European Championship 2024


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:SVK Team Slovakia :SVK

 

Goalkeepers:

 

Tomáš Hoferica

Filip Balogh

 

Field Players:

 

Patrik Tisaj

Adam Furman

Marek Tkáč

Tomáš Zolovčík

Matej Čaraj

Samuel Baláž

Dani Bačo

Róbert Kaid

Milan Matejka

Maroš Tkáč

Peter Marco Mihál

Tomáš Bielik

 

The Goal: Beat Slovenia to be the best Slov-nation and avoid last place :d, Every single place above 15th place will be a success in other words - Top 14.

 

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Solid start for our boys with a 10-8 win against Hungary! Revenge for losing to them on penalties in the World Championships final last year :p

 

We already qualified for Paris 2024 so there should be no pressure on us, and although we have an Olympic medal and four World Championships medals (and even four World League medals!), surprisingly our men's team has never won a European Championships medal!

 

So the goal here is obviously to finally win a European medal. It would be a bonus if it's gold because we've never won a gold medal in anything at the senior level.

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23 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Why was Italy a massive favourite with all the bookmakers, despite Italy having a 'average' record in the past years and Hungary having won lots of big medals? :yikes: 

Because Hungary is playing with very few of their top players as they have already qualified for the olympics, it's pretty much a B (or maybe even C) roster. While Italy has not yet qualified and plays with exactly the same roster compared to the last world championship.

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22 hours ago, maestro said:

Because Hungary is playing with very few of their top players as they have already qualified for the olympics, it's pretty much a B (or maybe even C) roster. While Italy has not yet qualified and plays with exactly the same roster compared to the last world championship.

Now it makes a lot of sense, thanks :d

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