Men's Water Polo Tournament at the Aquatics AQUA World Championships 2025

[copravolley 639]

Spain is an interesting case on men team: a series of World and European Championship medals in recent years but the last Olympic medal in 1996...

Edited July 22, 2025 by copravolley

[copravolley 639]

In Italy's case the men's team needs a complete change with the coaching staff at first. The team has enormous potential but last won something in 2019... Their last Olympic medal was in 2016... Recent tournaments have been lost in the same style: suspensions for brutal play and series of penalty losses. The team clearly has a mental problem and Campagna, after 17 years work, is unable to solve it. It`s time for change!

Edited July 22, 2025 by copravolley

[Makedonas 2,262]

So disappointing the game against Spain, I didn't see it but heard people complain about referees, and we conceded the equaliser with 1 second left and lost on penalties...

 

Anyways I hope we can bounce back and win bronze against Serbia today!

[Makedonas 2,262]

Easy win over Serbia, this is the third World Championships in a row where we comfortably beat them, which makes it even more upsetting that we lost to them in the quarterfinals of the Olympics last year 

[lapaj 437]

Congrats !

 

[MatiReimundo 501]

Final Results:

 

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Group Stage:

 

Group A:

 

1st - () / 17-5  ; 13-13 (4-3)  ; 28-4

2nd - () / 27-3  ; 19-9

3rd - () / 24-5  

4th - ()

 

Group B:

 

1st - () / 22-16  ; 10-7  ; 10-9  

2nd - () / 18-6  ; 23-18  

3rd - () / 12-11  

4th - ()

 

Group C:

 

1st - () / 18-9  ; 16-7  ; 26-6  

2nd - () / 19-8  ; 11-11 (8-7)  

3rd - () / 22-10  

4th - ()

 

Group D:

 

1st - () / 25-6  ; 13-11  ; 10-9  

2nd - () / 10-9  ; 13-8  

3rd - () / 26-5  

4th - ()

 

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13-16th Place Semifinals and Positions:

 27-4

 21-8  

 

15th Place Game:  14-13

13th Place Game:  16-9

 

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Playoffs:

 21-14

 15-11  

 17-5

 22-10  

 

9-12th Place Semifinals and Positions:

 22-11

 18-12  

 

11th Place Game:  16-11  

9th Place Game:  16-16 (4-3) 

 

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Quarterfinals:

 17-11  

 14-5

 14-9

 18-12

 

5-8th Place Semifinals and Positions:

 12-8

 14-9

 

7th Place Game:  9-8  

5th Place Game:  19-13  

 

Semifinals:

 7-7 (4-2)

 19-18

 

Third Place Game:  16-7  

 

FINAL:  15-13  

 

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Statistics and Awards:

 

Statistics:

 

Top Goalscorers:

 

1st - Reuel Mark D'Souza  / 26

2nd - Yusuke Inaba  / 23

2nd - Dusan Mandic  / 23

 

Awards:

 

All-Star Team:

 

Goalkeeper: Panagiotis Tzortzatos  

Field Players: Reuel Mark D'Souza  / Alvaro Granados  / Yusuke Inaba  / Dusan Mandic  / Krisztian Manhercz  / Stylianos Argyropoulos  

 

MVP: Alvaro Granados

Best Goalkeeper: Panagiotis Tzortzatos

 

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Podium Teams:

 

Spain  : Unai Aguirre ; Alberto Munarriz ; Alvaro Granados ; Bernat Sanahuja ; Miguel del Toro ; Marc Larumbe ; Jose Javier Bustos Sanchez ; Sergi Cabanas ; Roger Tahull ; Felipe Perrone ; Unai Biel ; Alejandro Bustos ; Eduardo Lorrio ; Biel Gomila Faiges ; Fran Valera

 

Hungary  : Kristof Csoma ; Daniel Angyal ; Krisztian Manhercz ; Erik Molnar ; Marton Vamos ; Adam Nagy ; Gergo Fekete ; Gergely Burian ; Peter Kovacs ; Vendel Vigvari ; Szilard Jansik ; Vince Vigvari ; Marton Mizsei ; Akos Nagy ; Zsombor Vismeg

 

Greece  : Panagiotis Tzortzatos ; Konstantinos Genidounias ; Dimitrios Skoumpakis ; Konstantinos Gkiouvetsis ; Stylianos Argyropoulos ; Aristeidis Chalyvopoulos ; Nikolaos Gkillas ; Efstathios Kalogeropoulos ; Ioannis Alafragkis ; Konstantinos Kakaris ; Dimitrios Nikolaidis ; Nikolaos Papanikolaou ; Emmanouil Andreadis ; Evangelos Pouros ; Nikolaos Gardikas

 

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Extensive Results