On Thursday, at the end of the third final tournament day in Romania, played in the pool of Dinamo Bucharest, the squad from CSM DiGi Oradea celebrated their sixth consecutive Romanian national championship title. In the nine playing days of the decisive tournament, devided over three ocassions, CSM DiGi Oradea just lost once confirming their national domination once more. Mihnea Chioveanu, player of CSM Digi Oradea and Romanian international, was the top scorer of the championship scoring 87 goals.
Defending Italian champions Pro Recco are up 1-0 in this year's Italian league playoffs finals. On Thursday, Recco defeated Brescia 9-8, thanks to a late man-up goal from Alex Giorgetti with less than a minute to play. The home team had a two-point advantage five times with Brescia reparing that deficit just twice (3-3 and 8-8). It was not enough as Giorgetti's dagger gave Recco the lead in the series and the chance of becoming Italy's champion on Sunday in Brescia where game 2 is scheduled at 20.30 local time. Meanwhile, in the battle for third place Posillipo is leading their series 1-0 over last year's playoffs finalist Savona after beating the reigning Euro Cup winners 8-14 in Savona on Wednesday. Acquachiara...
2008 Olympic champion and one of the key-players at the ZF-Eger side that was the 2011 Hungarian national champion, and forced a three-game playoffs finals against Vasas this season Norbert Hosnyánszky, will continue his career with Szolnok. On Wednesday, the rumours were confirmed by the technical director of Szolnok István Kovács. Hosnyánszky signed a two-year deal. Meanwhile, this year's Hungarian league number six also reached an agreement with talented centre-forward Viktor Vörös from Vasas, who will sign a one-year contract as well as, previously being mentioned, Serbian centre-back Milan Aleksic will join Szolnok, coming from Serbian champion Partizan Belgrade.
Arch rivals and Greek powerhouses Vouliagmeni and Olympiacos will battle for this year's Greek national title. In the playoffs semi-finals Vouliagmeni gained two confident wins over regular season number four Panathinaikos winning the series 2-0. For Olympiacos, the road to the finals was tougher. Against a quality Chios team, the reigning national champs needed three games to eliminate the regular season number three. After game 2 was won by Chios on penalties, Olympiacos finished things off at home in the decisive third match beating their opponents 12-9. The same four teams that played in the playoffs semi-final will battle for the Greek national Cup this next weekend at Argostoli. In the following weekend, th...
Gergely Kiss will leave his team Vasas after this season, as was announced by the club on Monday. Th...
After four days of tough competition, the women's teams from Germany and Italy clinched the last two...
Italy’s national champion in women’s waterpolo will be created by a Final Four event this year. The ...