{"id":383528,"date":"2019-07-25T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=383528"},"modified":"2019-07-29T12:30:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T19:30:44","slug":"usa-men-finish-strong-at-fina-world-water-championships-beat-montenegro-15-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/usa-men-finish-strong-at-fina-world-water-championships-beat-montenegro-15-14\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Men Finish Strong at FINA World Water Championships, Beat Montenegro 15-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a difficult FINA World Championships two years ago, when they finished a program-worst 13th and lost to Japan for the first time ever, the U.S. men\u2019s water polo team finished the 2019 FINA World Aquatics Championships on a high note, taking ninth place with a victory over a Montenegrin squad currently ranked sixth in the world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"379898\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/18th-fina-world-championships-a-numbers-game-for-us-womens-polo\/fina-gwangju-jul19\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fina-gwangju-jul19.png\" data-orig-size=\"312,115\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"fina-gwangju-jul19\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;fina-gwangju-jul19&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fina-gwangju-jul19.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fina-gwangju-jul19.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-379898 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fina-gwangju-jul19.png\" alt=\"fina-gwangju-jul19\" width=\"312\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fina-gwangju-jul19.png 312w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fina-gwangju-jul19-280x103.png 280w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fina-gwangju-jul19-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fina-gwangju-jul19-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/>The heroes of the Americans\u2019 15-14 victory today were many, but none bigger than <strong>Hannes Daube<\/strong>, who hammered the game-winner past goalie <strong>Slaven Kandic<\/strong> with 36 seconds left in the final period. With 10 ticks remaining U.S. goalie <strong>Alex Wolf<\/strong> followed with a huge steal on Montenegro\u2019s <strong>Drasko Brguljan<\/strong>, sealing his team\u2019s biggest win since a victory over Croatia last year at the FINA World League Super Final.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I shot around [the defender&#8217;s] arm and the ball went on the post.&#8221; Daube said in describing his winning tally. &#8220;Confidence definitely starts with my teammates and my coach believing in me and the preparation coming up to this tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chancellor Ramirez<\/strong> and <strong>Max Irving<\/strong> contributed fourth quarter goals to put the U.S. ahead 14-13 and help set the stage for Daube\u2019s heroics. <strong>Johnny Hooper <\/strong>had a monster game with four scores, including a pair in the second period when the Americans jumped ahead by two. <strong>Ben Hallock<\/strong> was a force in front of the Montenegrin cage, scoring three times including once during a third period offensive explosion which saw both teams combine for eight goals.<\/p>\n<p>For Montenegro, which has to be disappointed by the worst World Championship finish in program history, <strong>Aleksander Ivovic<\/strong> tallied six goals on seven shots. His teammates were a combined 8 of 26 on shots\u2014a paltry 30%\u2014a statistic that factors in a successful penalty conversion. Including a loss earlier this month in the China Wenjiang International Water Polo Tournament, Head Coach <strong>Vladimir Gojkovic<\/strong> has now lost consecutive games to Team USA\u2014the first time this has happened since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, his team\u2019s showing leaves Montenegro vulnerable in qualifying for the 2020 Olympics. The next opportunity for for Gojkovic&#8217;s to secure a berth at the Tokyo Games is at the European Qualification Tournament, next January in Budapest. There the team will have to compete with the rest of Europe\u2014including the Croatians, who a surprising loser to Spain in a semifinal today\u2014to get back to the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The Americans have their own qualification woes to contend with, but\u2014after a tournament where they won four matches and beat both Australia and Montenegro\u2014Head Coach <strong>Dejan Udovicic <\/strong>and his staff must be feeling immeasurably better about the team\u2019s Olympic prospects. From Gwangju the team will travel to Peru for the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, where they will look to take gold in the water polo competition and qualify for their eighth straight Olympics.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_383564\" style=\"width: 1033px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-383564\" data-attachment-id=\"383564\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/usa-men-finish-strong-at-fina-world-water-championships-beat-montenegro-15-14\/cupido-fina-championships-jul19\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cupido-fina-championships-jul19.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1500,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"cupido-fina-championships-jul19\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;6-18-24&lt;br \/&gt;\ncupido-fina-championships-jul19&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cupido-fina-championships-jul19-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cupido-fina-championships-jul19-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-383564\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cupido-fina-championships-jul19-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"cupido-fina-championships-jul19\" width=\"1023\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cupido-fina-championships-jul19-280x187.jpg 280w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cupido-fina-championships-jul19-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cupido-fina-championships-jul19-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cupido-fina-championships-jul19-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cupido-fina-championships-jul19-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cupido-fina-championships-jul19-1350x900.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cupido-fina-championships-jul19-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cupido-fina-championships-jul19-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cupido-fina-championships-jul19-533x355.jpg 533w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cupido-fina-championships-jul19.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-383564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luca Cupido, a star for the United States. Photo Courtesy: Tsutomu Kishimoto \/ FINA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Outside of his team\u2019s strong performance, Udovicic had to be conscious of Brazil\u2019s poor showing at FINA Worlds. Perhaps the American\u2019s biggest rival in the region, the Brazilian squad coached by <strong>Ricardo Azevedo<\/strong> finished 13th, losing all of its matches in group play before rallying with two wins against New Zealand and Kazakhstan<em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Canada, the region\u2019s other contender, did not qualify this year for Worlds, instead sending a squad to participate in FINA&#8217;s inaugural beach water polo competition. Certainly, the Canadians had a close look at a committed U.S. squad that got strong contributions\u2014as expected\u2014from <strong>Alex Bowen<\/strong> (10 goals), <strong>Luca Cupido<\/strong> (hat trick, game winning-goal against Australia) and Hallock (11 goals). What makes the Americans potentially dangerous are its young players. Daube, who collected 11 goals in Gwuangju is just 19 years old, while his USA and USC teammate <strong>Marko Vavic<\/strong> is just 20. <strong>Alex Wolf<\/strong> has embraced his responsibility protecting the U.S. cage, and his former UCLA teammates Ramirez, Irving and <strong>Matt Farmer<\/strong> have provided Udovicic with necessary grit and desire that may have previously been lacking.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/trouble-is-a-bruin-ucla-players-storm-fina-2019-world-water-polo-championships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Bruin Tradition: UCLA Players Bolster US Teams for FINA 2019 World Water Polo Championships<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Coach Udovicic pointed to his young players as being decisive now and in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is for our young players; it means more than just a win,&#8221; he said after the match. &#8220;It shows how we can go to this phase and win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/usa-mens-water-polo-at-2019-pan-american-games-look-out-for-brazil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>USA Men\u2019s Water Polo At 2019 Pan American Games: Look Out for Brazil<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>With their first game against Cuba on August 4 in Lima&#8217;s Andres Avelino Caceres <span class=\"st\">sports complex,<\/span> it remains to be seen how much of a lift Team USA gets from their success at FINA Worlds. At the very least, they proved that can compete against the world\u2019s best; if they carry that confidence into Pan Ams, the American men will be tough to beat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a difficult FINA World Championships two years ago, when they finished a program-worst 13th and lost to Japan for the first time ever, the U.S. men\u2019s water polo team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4875,"featured_media":303834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[73139,99595,27250,47732,47734,62283,99594,66899,62272,42084,62606,47052,62274,60192,64635,3016,99593,3613,97501],"class_list":["post-383528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-water-polo","tag-2019-fina-world-aquatics-championships","tag-aleksander-ivovic","tag-alex-bowen","tag-alex-wolf","tag-ben-hallock","tag-chancellor-ramirez","tag-drasko-brguljan","tag-hannes-daube","tag-johnny-hooper","tag-luca-cupido","tag-marko-vavic","tag-matt-farmer","tag-max-irving","tag-michael-randazzo","tag-montenegro-water-polo","tag-ricardo-azevedo","tag-slaven-kandi","tag-usa-water-polo","tag-vladimir-gojkovic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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