{"id":327925,"date":"2018-09-05T07:15:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T14:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=327925"},"modified":"2018-09-05T05:43:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T12:43:57","slug":"water-polo-clubs-return-to-barcelona-for-preliminary-draw-for-upcoming-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/water-polo-clubs-return-to-barcelona-for-preliminary-draw-for-upcoming-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Polo Clubs Return To Barcelona For Preliminary Draw For Upcoming Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the highly successful European Water Polo Championships in July, the water polo family returned to Barcelona where the draw for the preliminaries and the wild-card holder clubs meeting was held. With some great plans with water polo on the horizon, to be revealed in the near future, the draw was opened by representative of the City Council, Sport Commissioner <strong>Marta Caranca<\/strong> and <strong>Enric Bertran<\/strong>, Vice President of the Royal Spanish Swimming Federation, President of the Catalan Swimming Federation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The draw saw the winners of the previous six editions being sorted equally to the two groups \u2013 courtesy of two the greatest stars of Barceloneta, <strong>Felipe Perrone<\/strong> and <strong>Dani Lopez<\/strong> who \u2018handled\u2019 the balls, this time a bit smaller ones than in the pool. In group A, Olympiacos Piraeus and Jug Dubrovnik are to meet again in the prelims, just like in last year, while Pro Recco and Eger will clash for the third straight season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were two changes in the field of the wild card-holders: Crvena Zvezda replaced Partizan from Serbia while 7-time winner Mladost Zagreb (CRO) stepped in from the waiting list instead of Alphen (NED). Both returning sides will face a series of tough challenges: in fact, Mladost was drawn to the same group with fellow Croatian side Jug and group B will also offer an in-house battle of the German teams Spandau and Hannover. Since Hannover is the host of the Final Eight, it enjoys an automatic berth, leaving three spots available for the others in this group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The qualification kicks off next week, at the end of the process four more sides will join the 12 seeded clubs. 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