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With his two-year contract with Pro Recco concluded, the career of Ratko Rudic, the most successful coach in water polo history, is over. Francesco Grillone, who edits the WaterPoloItaly.com site, reports that—as expected—the 72-year-old Rudic will retire as head coach for the Biancocelesti. After b...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor The world’s largest sports tournament is now in full swing, with Russia hosting squads from 31 other nations in the 2018 FIFA World Cup. An interesting comparison to soccer (or football, as everyone outside of the United States calls it) is a sport not...

In a surprising upset Tuesday, the favored Serbians—who have won almost every major water polo title the past five years—were eliminated from title contention at the 2019 FINA World Aquatics Championships. Spain, which had not beaten Serbia in World Championship play since 2009, stunned the defendin...

BUDAPEST, Hungary. After a positively unbelievable, uplifting and frankly exhausting evening of water polo at the Alfréd Hajós Swimming Complex, it seemed ideal to start piecing together some of the pieces of what is both an intricate puzzle as well as a concrete reality: Croatia has beaten its arch...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor There’s no other way to say it: the water polo world was turned upside down Thursday night when Croatia—due either to relentless determination OR bad refereeing—shocked Serbia and beat the Olympic, European and World champs 12-11. Not only was it the f...

After the European women had already played two matches, Day Three of the 34th LEN European Water Polo Championships saw the men finally hit the water in Budapest’s Duna Arena for the first time. On Tuesday defending champion Serbia, as well as Croatia, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, the Nethe...

Swimming World Tabs Maddie Musselman and Filip Filipovic as Water Polo Players of the Year As Swimming World continues its look back at the 2021 year in aquatic sports, we shift gears to water polo. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, the United States women and Serbian men stormed to gold medals, with M...

Tomorrow starts a new decade — as well as the beginning of the end of the latest Olympic quadrennial. With the Tokyo Games set to open on July 24th, the next seven months will see a run-up to the most important water polo tournament in the sport. Before we go forward, Swimming World will go back — o...

DOHA - Before diving into this week's short course world championships, Katinka Hosszu and Chad Le Clos were singled out by FINA as their world swimmers of 2014, the first time each has been singled out by the global aquatic sports federation. In a year that did not include a long course world champ...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor As I wend my way across the Atlantic by air returning to Brooklyn, it seemed appropriate to wrap up my experience of Budapest and the 2017 FINA World Water Polo Championships. First, my congratulations to the winners—Croatia for the men and USA for the...

Luca Cupido's (Newport Beach, CA/California/Newport) goal with just two seconds left in the fourth quarter pushed Team USA to an 11-10 win over Serbia at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, CA. Cupido tied the game with 45 seconds left after goals from Filip Filipovic and Andrija Prlainovic had put ...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor BUDAPEST, Hungary. It was a tough World Cup in Budapest for the world’s greatest water polo player. Filip Filipovic, Swimming World’s 2016 men’s water polo player of the year, was very frustrated by the officiating at the 2017 FINA World Championships....

18th FINA World Aquatics Championships Preview: Water Polo July 14-27 and July 13 (Beach Water Polo) BY MICHAEL RANDAZZO Of the 16 teams in the men’s draw, the most closely watched will be Serbia and Croatia. Over the last five years, the Serbs, coached by Dejan Savic, have captured every major ...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor As the water polo community looks forward to a new year, Swimming World takes a look back at the top five events in men’s water polo for 2018. The only major championship this season was the 33rd LEN European Water Polo Championships in Barcelona, wo...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here In this issue of Swimming World, read about Australia's Ariarne Titmus. She bested Katie Ledecky for the second time this past summer at the Tokyo Oly.....

Water polo—a sport relatively unknown in America and one difficult for the uninitiated to comprehend—inspires tremendous loyalty among those who play it. Count Leonardo Ruzzante, a teenager eager to pursue his passion wherever it leads, as one who has caught the polo “bug.” That includes relocating ...

A dramatic finish Wednesday to a men’s quarterfinal match at the 34th LEN European Water Polo Championships may signal the end of an unprecedented reign of success. When Spain’s Alvaro Granados Ortega beat Serbian goalie Branislav Mitrovic in a shootout, it gave the Spaniards a dramatic 10-9 win and...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Marko Vavic may only be a freshman for the USC men’s water polo team but he is wise beyond his years, which comes from growing up in one of the sport’s most recognizable families. Following a stellar career at Loyola High School, where the Cubs went to...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor BERLIN, Germany. Bringing a young, inexperienced team to a tournament configured to test a variety of new rules for future application turned out to not be ideal for the U.S. Senior Men’s National team. Registering two wins in six days of action at the...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor BUDAPEST, Hungary. On a positively brilliant night in Budapest, an almost indescribable program of water polo took place at the Alfred Hajos Pool. In front of an adoring crowd of over 7,000 fans, the Hungarian men’s team suffocated a frustrated Greek t...