Water Polo Qualification for Summer Olympic Games 2016

[heywoodu 13,820]

The referees gave Italy another victory against us....

 

 

Spoiler

Kidding  

We just weren't good enough, which is obviously quite normal....I mean, it's insane there was even still a theoretical chance of us winning the group today  

 

[Gianlu33 3,736]

42 minutes ago, Benolympique said:

TU Y CROIS ENCORE EN LA QUALIF OLYMPQUE ?

French wasn't accept in the forum  

[hckošice 13,676]

Men's Final Olympic Qualification

Tournament

Trieste (ITA) - 03.04.2016 - 10.04.2016

 

Preliminary Round

12 Nations, 2 Groups, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Nations will Qualify to Quarterfinals

 

Day 4 Results

 

Group A

Canada  10 - 10  Romania    

(Score by Period: 2-2, 5-3, 3-4, 0-1)

6h April 2016, h. 16:30 (GMT +2), Polo Natatorio, Trieste

 

Russia  8 - 18  Hungary      

(Score by Period : 2-6, 3-5, 1-4, 2-3)

6h April 2016, h. 17:50 (GMT +2), Polo Natatorio, Trieste

 

Slovakia  8 - 10  France    

(Score by Period : 2-0, 2-4, 3-4, 1-2)

6h April 2016, h. 19:10 (GMT +2), Polo Natatorio, Trieste

 

Group A Provisional Standing After Day 4

RANK	NATION	GAME	WINS	DRAW	LOST	GF	GR	GD	POINTS
1	Hungary	4	3	1	0	57	37	+20	7
2	Canada	4	2	2	0	42	39	+3	6
3	France	4	3	0	1	41	43	-2	6
4	Romania	4	1	1	2	42	45	-3	3
5	Russia	4	1	0	3	32	41	-9	2
6	Slovakia	4	0	0	4	32	41	-9	0

 

 

Group B

Kazakhstan  11 - 11  Germany    

(Score by Period: 2-2, 3-3, 4-2, 2-4)

6h April 2016, h. 13:50 (GMT +2), Polo Natatorio, Trieste

 

South Africa  1 - 15  Spain      

(Score by Period : 1-3, 0-6, 0-4, 0-2)

6h April 2016, h. 15:10 (GMT +2), Polo Natatorio, Trieste

 

Italy  11 - 5  Netherlands    

(Score by Period : 3-1, 5-3, 2-0, 1-1)

6h April 2016, h. 20:30 (GMT +2), Polo Natatorio, Trieste

 

Group B Provisional Standing After Day 4

RANK	NATION	GAME	WINS	DRAW	LOST	GF	GR	GD	POINTS
1	Italy	4	3	0	1	55	20	+35	6
2	Spain	4	3	0	1	39	21	+18	6
3	Netherlands	4	3	0	1	29	29	0	6
4	Germany	4	1	1	2	47	34	+13	3
5	Kazakhstan	4	1	1	2	30	39	-9	3
6	South Africa	4	0	0	4	14	71	-57	0

 

 

 

Qualified Nations for Quarterfinals (Partial)

• Canada
• France
• Hungary
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Spain

 

[dcro 10,193]

Slovakia's goal difference is only -9 despite losing all four games. That's respectful.

[heywoodu 13,820]

By the way, the Dutch federation seems to be pretty sure that winning against RSA tomorrow would give us 2nd place in the group. Nobody knows how these rules will work exactly  

[hckošice 13,676]

39 minutes ago, dcro said:

Slovakia's goal difference is only -9 despite losing all four games. That's respectful.

 

yes, we are really playing good. we do not play bad considering our capabilities and posibilities. I saw three of our matches (except the one with Canada), and I must say that we played really well. Our problem is low efficiency, we had many pretty clear chances in attack, but we threw away a majority of them because of lack of patience. if we were just a little more patient and more carefull in our offensive actions, I´ll say that we could have won against the Romanian and French. but it´s still the same word "if"

But never mind, we are still yet to learn, we must learn to be patient and mentally to handle the last minutes of the match, we have also failed because wrong tactics at end of matches...but we learn..and one nice day it will pay, hopefully

[DaniSRB 896]

3 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

yes, we are really playing good. we do not play bad considering our capabilities and posibilities. I saw three of our matches (except the one with Canada), and I must say that we played really well. Our problem is low efficiency, we had many pretty clear chances in attack, but we threw away a majority of them because of lack of patience. if we were just a little more patient and more carefull in our offensive actions, I´ll say that we could have won against the Romanian and French. but it´s still the same word "if"

But never mind, we are still yet to learn, we must learn to be patient and mentally to handle the last minutes of the match, we have also failed because wrong tactics at end of matches...but we learn..and one nice day it will pay, hopefully

and notable also to mention is that you don't use naturalized players

[hckošice 13,676]

6 minutes ago, DaniSRB said:

and notable also to mention is that you don't use naturalized players

 

well, I don´t know who would want to play water polo for Slovakia, he would not have much profit of this.

[hckošice 13,676]

11 minutes ago, DaniSRB said:

and notable also to mention is that you don't use naturalized players

 

but btw believe me or not, but a slovak born player is a olympic champion.

 

Štefan (now István) Gergely after the olympics in Sydney he was invited to play for Hungary, and that was the best thing for him, he won 2 olympic titles in Athens and Beijing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/István_Gergely

[De_Gambassi 961]

14 hours ago, heywoodu said:

By the way, the Dutch federation seems to be pretty sure that winning against RSA tomorrow would give us 2nd place in the group. Nobody knows how these rules will work exactly  

 

It seems that both french and canadians agree with the dutch federation.