Water Polo
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Forza Italia! Oops!... They did it again
Summer Games
8 August 2023
“We are not going to celebrate our victory. We have practice in the evening and an early flight tomorrow. Then we go back to swimming,“ joked Italy’s head coach Daniele Bettini after his team’s 13-11 victory over Hungary in the men’s water polo final of the Chengdu FISU World University Games, Tuesday afternoon. A fight […]
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Greek know-how leads China to the first water polo title in 12 years
Summer Games
7 August 2023
To win a water polo tournament you need to gain some know-how. To obtain this kind of knowledge, there are few better sources than a Greek coach with experience at the highest level of this sport. Until a year ago Kostas Chatzidakis had spent his whole coaching career in his homeland. He is most notably […]
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Water polo champions gets chance to defend title
Summer Games
6 August 2023
The battles for spots in the men’s water polo final at the Chengdu FISU World University Games were filled with action and excitement. Italy faced Georgia in one semifinal and won 11-10, in down-to-the-wire, dramatic fashion. The game didn’t start well for the favored Italians, who simply couldn’t score. It was Georgia in the lead […]
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From garden goalie, to the pools of Chengdu Stephanie Berry's water polo career grows
Water Polo
21 June 2023
Stephanie Berry has a comical story of how she ended up between the goalposts of a swimming pool. “I was exposed to water polo at a fairly young age because I used to go watch my older sister’s high school games,” she tells FISU.net. “But my first memory of playing water polo was in the […]
