B M – Waterpolo Milano Metanopoli Promoted to Serie A2
WP MILANO METANOPOLI BACK IN A2!
A group and a dream season
Extraordinary promotion of Waterpolo Milano Metanopoli which, after just one year in Serie B, quickly returns to A2 and is established as the most important football reality in the city of Milan.
An immense joy that explodes at the final whistle of the playoff final, away from home and against the expert and strong Civitavecchia team, won with a score of 13 to 6.
A practically perfect match from a technical, tactical and mental point of view. A very young team that faced game three with great maturity (i.e. the playoff having previously won one match each), in a swimming pool full of opposing fans.
An enormous satisfaction for the president Alessandro De Marco and for the entire club which, courageously, restarted from series B with new values and a new approach, inserting many young players from the academy over the course of the year into a more experienced nucleus made up of motivated athletes who, like captain Luca Mugelli, chose to follow the team to a lower division with the aim – achieved – of moving up straight away.
The success of Waterpolo Milano Metanopoli can be explained precisely in this: a great technician, Leonardo Binchi, who was able to transmit the new approach of the company to the entire group. On the one hand, a strong attachment to the colors on the part of athletes from all over Italy who have found "home" here and the possibility of continuing to play high-level water polo without giving up their university or work ambitions.
In parallel, enormous work with the youth teams giving youngsters the chance to make their debut in the first team and, at the same time, helping the water polo movement grow in an important city like Milan.
Coach Leonardo Binchi's comment: "A season of ten is what I asked of the team, just like they do every day in their studies or in their work, because sport is the parallelism of life: and so it was. I add the final praise because we faced the most difficult road in the playoffs, meeting two excellent teams, first Lerici and then Civitavecchia, with the field factor in the final against us. The very young people, until 2009 and 2010, mixed well with the more experienced ones - if they can be called that given the still low average age. Together with the sporting director Francesco Ferrari, our trainer Yacopo Bonariva, always careful to vary the programs based on the stage of the season, and the irreplaceable all-round manager Michele Comana, that masterpiece was completed which was considered by many, at the beginning of the season impossible. But hard work pays off in the long run. With every difficulty encountered along the way, the team strengthened and matured until reaching the final exams, aware of the growth and determined to implement all the knowledge learned in recent months. I repeat a season of 10 and praise. A special and dutiful thanks to our warm public, to the youth teams always present, to the families, to parents, relatives, friends and girlfriends who believed in this dream and supported our team even when away".
Attached is a card with all the results of the regular season, the playoff semi-finals and the playoff finals culminating with the last victorious match against Civitavecchia which allowed the team to be promoted to Serie A.2.
Finally, a special thank you to the sponsors who believe in our ambitious project - ENI, Banco BPM, 9REN People - without whom this dream could not continue.
Waterpolo Milano Metanopoli SSD
Photo by Simone Ravizza
