8/21/2024 | Europe | www.waterpolo.hu

#HUNGARY #WOMEN'S U19 # EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP

Women's U19 European Championships, with six U20 world champions

Women's U19 European Championship, with six U20 world champions

The "second half" of the age group tournaments begins: the girls' U19 European Championship starts on Saturday in Zagreb. The goal is clearly the podium.

Our women's junior national team is going to a competition in which, in its history dating back to 1994, we have won the most medals - 10, the most so far 14 times - but they only managed to win the U19 European Championship once, back in 1998.

Two years ago, in Netanya, our team finished as silver medalists - then the Spanish defended their title (in 2018, 2020 )

According to our current knowledge, the Spaniards will again be the biggest rivals, if everything is true, they will even have a recent Olympic champion, Isabel Piralkova. Of course, we also have excellence, let's not say otherwise, six of last year's U20 world champion team are members of the current squad (Szonja Golopencza, Kata Hajdú, Laura Kardos, Eszter Mácsai, Tiba Panna, Eszter Varró). And they happened to defeat the Spaniards in the golden match last autumn - where Márton Benczur managed the team in the same way as now.

In any case, the group stage seems easier despite the fact that the Euro will take place according to the two-division system, i.e. the guards who finished in the top eight in the previous competition are in groups A and B, and the rest are in C and D. The draw threw the Croatians and the French here, so at first glance, the rally against the Greeks seems to be a tougher challenge (though let's not forget the U16 European Championship, where the Croatians defeated the Dutch in the quarter-finals). Hacaca's is due from the quarter-finals, although the first place in the group would almost certainly guarantee a meeting against Israel, at least based on the paper form: on the other side, in addition to the Spanish, there are also the Italians and the Dutch, plus the Israelis.

 

The traveling frame

Emese Batizi

Szonja Golopencza

Gulyás-Page Emma

Kata Hajdú

Luca Horváth

Zsófi Horváth

Dominika Kardos

Laura Kardos

Zoé Lendvay

Eszter Mácsai

Bíbor Pogonyi

Lili Sóti

Tiba Panna

Luca Torma

Varró Eszter

Staff:

Péter Biros, Márton Benczur, Dóra Kisteleki, Gergely Béres, Dr. Péter Golopencza, Marcella Almási-Szabó, Zsolt Csapliczky

Schedule of the European Championship in Zagreb (group stage)

August 25

17.30 Hungary-Croatia

August 26

10.30 Hungary-Greece

August 27

16.00 Hungary-France


If you are a water polo player, you want to be found by coaches and other sports workers, create your FREE profile.

Create PLAYER Profile

If you are a water polo coach create your FREE profile here

Create COACH Profile

Mentioned Clubs