{"id":621852,"date":"2025-09-03T09:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=621852"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:05:15","slug":"a-huge-opportunity-for-nyc-water-polo-as-giants-in-sport-unite-with-college-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/a-huge-opportunity-for-nyc-water-polo-as-giants-in-sport-unite-with-college-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Huge Opportunity for NYC Water Polo as Giants in Sport Unite with College Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Huge Opportunity for NYC Water Polo as Giants in Sport Unite with College Powers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Thursday, Asphalt Green will host New York City\u2019s most highly anticipated water polo match in decades: the Italian giant Pro Recco vs. reigning Euro League champions Ferencvaros. Not since the beginning of the previous century, when the old Madison Square Garden\u2014the original one on Madison Square\u2014hosted the then new sporting phenomenon has New York seen such an ambitious arrangement for the oldest Olympic team sport.<\/p>\n<p>In a warmup tonight, Pro Recco, the world\u2019s most successful club, tips off against UCLA, the country\u2019s top college team, followed by a match pitting Ferencvaros against East Coast collegiate power Princeton. The series of matches and their location at Princeton and Asphalt Green, New York City\u2019s premier aquatic facility, underscore a potential turning point in the city\u2019s mostly indifferent relationship with polo. There has not been a match of this level since Pro Recco\u2019s last visit, also to Asphalt Green, in 2002.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/european-water-polo-royalty-set-for-big-apple-appearance\/\"><em>European Water Polo Royalty Set for Big Apple Appearance<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A difficult sport to play, requiring tremendous stamina and exceptional athletic ability, the fact that Recco owners <strong>Philip Hammarskjold <\/strong>and<strong> Alex Behring <\/strong>chose New York for a series of high profile polo contests marks their Pro Recco 2025 World Tour as an audacious gambit.<\/p>\n<p>Their gambit appears to be paying off. Excitement in the city is evident with all matches sold out, including standing room. That the tour coincides with an announced expansion of host Asphalt Green\u2019s youth water polo program is tremendous for a sport most New Yorkers know nothing about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>European Polo on the East River<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Hammarskjold and Behring rescued Pro Recco from financial ruin last August, they probably didn\u2019t expect to end up in New York City 12 months later. In April of 2024, a 25-year love affair between former Recco owner <strong>Gabriele Volpi<\/strong> and his prized Genoa club came to an end. The American-based, Ivy-educated investors swooped in and captured the world\u2019s biggest polo prize.<\/p>\n<p>They financially righted the club and almost immediately plotted with Recco President <strong>Mauricio Felugo <\/strong>for a grand gesture: bring their club to America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe genesis of this trip began in the late fall of 2024 when Alex, Mauricio and I were talking about our longer-term plans for the Club,\u201d Hammarskjold said in an email. \u201cIronically, my first exposure to Pro Recco came five years earlier during Recco\u2019s last trip to the US, where they did a tour of Northern California and trained and had a friendly collegiate match at my son\u2019s high school Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton CA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As American polo fans know, the sport is most dominant in California, where it\u2019s played year-round. What distinguishes Behring and Hammarskjold\u2019s plan was to center the trip in the East, where polo is practically invisible. They would use Princeton, New Jersey as a staging area and New York City as the grand stage for a friendly between Recco, which has won 11 Champions League titles including three in a row from 2021-23, and Ferencvaros, league winners the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>What makes Recco\u2019s latest visit noteworthy is the decision to invite their Hungarian rivals. Including Ferencvaros not only increased the stakes, it paralleled matches taking place this weekend on the West Coast. Marseille, France\u2019s best pro club, and Barceloneta, the top Spanish club, travelled to the Berkeley campus of the University of California where they will play the host Golden Bears as well as the Olympic Club.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enter Asphalt Green, the City\u2019s Best Water<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A large factor why water polo\u2014or any aquatic sport, for that matter\u2014has not thrived in New York is the city contains so few pools of any sort, especially ones suitable for a prestigious match. Among NYC\u2019s five boroughs only three pools of Olympic dimension exist, and only one, Asphalt Green\u2019s aquatic palace on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side, is suitable for the world\u2019s best professionals.<\/p>\n<p>As Pro Recco ownership was sketching out grand plans to take Manhattan, <strong>David Rodriguez<\/strong>, Asphalt Green\u2019s Senior Director of Aquatics, realized that the next step for his aquatics program was to grow polo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought: Here are two of the biggest collegiate names (UCLA and Princeton) in the sport combined with two of the biggest polo giants in the world,\u201d Rodriguez said in a recent interview. \u201cLet\u2019s get &#8217;em all here in the biggest city in the world and try to put together an event that showcases Asphalt Green and the sport at the highest level. It also teaches our future generation of water polo players and swimmers, the pathways are [to the] Olympics but also college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShowcasing both of those things in the same light was an opportunity that I couldn&#8217;t pass up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manwithahat.nyc\/rodriguez-asphalt-green-water-polo\"><em>Asphalt Green\u2019s David Rodriguez: The Time is NOW for Asphalt Green Water Polo<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In NYC\u2019s miniscule water polo scene, Asphalt Green is a laggard: three youth clubs compete nationally and three high schools, all in the Bronx, play competitively while three local colleges also have intercollegiate teams. Asphalt Green\u2019s excellent facility, coupled with a 350-strong youth swim program that USA Swimming rates among the country\u2019s top 25 could grow into a bastion for the sport. But only if pool time is available in the city\u2019s busiest aquatic facility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Qualified Coach Comes Forth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As evidenced by his longevity and his program\u2019s results\u2014at 12 years and counting he\u2019s the longest head swim coach in Asphalt Green\u2019s history\u2014Rodriguez is excellent at what he does. A fan of water polo, he played in high school and learned that to be successful at a sport as specialized as polo, you need exceptional coaching. That he settled on <strong>Ilija Duretic<\/strong> to grow his program is inspiring. Not only does the Serbian native have a wealth of experience as an assistant on Fordham men\u2019s team and at Greenwich Aquatics, where he\u2019s a full-time youth coach, Duretic is attuned to polo\u2019s unique challenge on this coast. He has spent enough time in the New York region to know how to handle the personalities of parents and athletes who play polo here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manwithahat.nyc\/duretic-new-ag-waterpolo-coach\"><em>Changing of The Water Polo Guard at Asphalt Green<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Duretic\u2019s first practice with his new club will be Sunday; by then Pro Recco and Ferencvaros will have completed what has been a two week tour of the New York region, one that includes another meeting at Princeton. By then what will matter most is that New York polo fans maintain their enthusiasm. The danger\u2014as happened with Pro Recco\u2019s last visit\u2014is for the excitement to dissipate, wasting a much needed infusion of energy.<\/p>\n<p>The best outcome is that the constituencies that support polo in this city\u2014the youth clubs, the colleges, the fans who come out for an unusual and exciting sporting event\u2014maintain the momentum Pro Recco\u2019s tour has inspired, so that when the club returns next year, substantial progress on AG\u2019s youth club\u2014and energy in the city\u2014continues.<\/p>\n<p><em><b>Michael Randazzo<\/b>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/manwithahat.nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/manwithahat.nyc\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1756938564981000&amp;usg=AOvVaw08SjpFnvEFc1kmHdgy0NRN\">the Man with a Hat<\/a>) is a swimming &amp; water polo\u00a0enthusiast in New York City. He\u2019s the executive director of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitywellness.nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.communitywellness.nyc\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1756938564981000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3QezxcSCDKE_I7FBMWOrbV\">Inclusive Community Wellness<\/a>, a Brooklyn-based NPO that provides health and wellness opportunities to New Yorkers. When he\u2019s not on a pool deck helping children and adults learn to swim, Randazzo occasionally writes about water polo, a sport he never played and barely understands.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Huge Opportunity for NYC Water Polo as Giants in Sport Unite with College Powers This Thursday, Asphalt Green will host New York City\u2019s most highly anticipated water polo 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