{"id":282550,"date":"2017-11-01T12:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T19:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=282550"},"modified":"2017-11-01T09:45:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T16:45:21","slug":"fina-mens-water-polo-world-league-to-kick-off-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/fina-mens-water-polo-world-league-to-kick-off-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"FINA Men&#8217;s Water Polo World League to Kick Off This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European preliminary rounds of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fina.statslive.info\/c\/261302369\/eyJpdiI6InJBN1VoNGlxNFBjOWU4QUN5TXN0RVVpTVdRQ1Q5Tmo0dDFqM0g4eE5lS2M9IiwidmFsdWUiOiJGcERwdjJJQ3A4Q0ZuMkcyMEQyQUxDeWU0T3hrUWRvSEtnQU5rN1ZIdHBMNUZWNWJGRnpGYWxESFpsSlZWdm05R0laNVpadUpORHpDVVZtZ0w5NHZ2UT09IiwibWFjIjoiNWQwMWVjMGVhYmUwODVjNzI2MWExNGJkNzYyOTZmM2ViZWNjZDRmMWVhNzQ4MTk4YWNhN2Q3MjJlMmEyODM0YyJ9\" target=\"_blank\" 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14<\/span><\/span>, Romania will play Serbia, Croatia will welcome the Russians in Zadar (CRO), and the Netherlands will face the Spanish in Malaga (ESP).<\/p>\n<p>The European preliminaries will be played in six rounds, following this calendar from November 2017 to April 2018:<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"367\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"52\">\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>ROUND<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"104\">\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>DATE<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"70\">\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>A<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"70\">\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>B<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"70\">\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>C<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"52\">\n<p align=\"center\">1<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"104\">\n<p align=\"center\"><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_706162140\"><span class=\"aQJ\">14 November 2017<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td 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