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| Sunday, August 26, 2007 |
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Game 103: Croatia (CRO) vs Serbia (SRB) on 8/26/2007
By Joan Gould @ 10:32 PM :: 1345 Views :: 0 Comments
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Game 103: 16:00, Los Alamitos, Sunday, August 26, Play-off 3-4 (BRONZE)
CROATIA 12 SERBIA 8
Referees: Georgios STAVRIDIS (GRE), Filippo ROTUNNO (ITA)
Quarters: 4-2, 3-2, 2-3, 3-1
Teams:
CROATIA: Egon JURISIC, Luka LONCAR, Ivan DELAS (1), Domagoj CULE (2),
Ivan BEBIC (1), Maro JOKOVIC (1), Boris POPOVIC, Igor RADMANOVIC, Sandro
SUKNO (2), Petar MUSLIN (2), Ivan BULJUBASIC (1), Josip SUTALO, Mirko NIZIC. Head
Coach: Emil NIKOLIC.
SERBIA: Milos MARINKOVIC, Petar TOMASEVIC (1), Luka SAPONIC (2), Dusan
MARKOVIC, Dorde BASIC, Ivan RACKOV (3), Boris VAPENSKI, Petar
FILIPOVIC, Miroslav RANDIC (1), Marko PETKOVIC, Petar IVOSEVIC (1), Stefan
MITROVIC, Stefan ZIVODINOVIC. Head Coach: Nenad VASILOVSKI.
Shooting success: CRO 12/26; SRB 8/29
Extra Man: CRO 6/10; SRB 5/9
Pen: CRO 0/1
Goalkeeper saves: CRO 8; SRB 5
Match Report:
Croatia gained its first bronze medal to go with a gold and two silvers
whenleading all the way against outgoing champion Serbia.
Croatia started the best possible way with four unanswered goals.
Jokovic, Buljubasic and Bebic on extra while Sukno¹s goal was laser-like from
the top. Bebic gained his by stealing the ball, immediately gaining an
ejection on his defender and swam halfway up the pool to taunt Marinkovic and
score two goals in 35 seconds by Serbia, playing without the services of
banned head coach Emil Nikolic, struck back through Ivosevic on a cross pass
on extra to the far post and Rackov on left-hand catch.
Saponic continued the Serbian charge in the second period on extra to
close to one but Cule responded from the top on extra. Rackov replied for
5-4, also on extra. Delas slapped in a loose ball off a rebound on extra and
Cule loosed a shot from the top on action at 0:52 for the final scoring of
the half and 7-4 to Croatia. Saponic scored from eight metres at the top of the third but Muslin
muscled in his 27th goal of the tournament from two metres for 8-5. Sukno
scored his second on extra for a three-goal lead again. Filipovic left the water,
as he did in the second quarter, with a sore right shoulder. Serbia took a
timeout on extra and Rackov converted his second on extra and third of the
match for 9-7 at 0:45. Loncar and Jokovic, for his 20th goal of the week, took Croatia to a
near-unassailable, four-goal lead at 5:54. A Croatian timeout soon
after led to a blocked shot and Muslin gaining the ball at centre forward,
turning and scoring for 12-7. Less than a minute later, Muslin¹s game was over
when sent for misconduct for an apparent hit to an opponent¹s face. It didn¹t
matter, there wasn¹t going to be extra time. He had a bronze medal. There was
time but the Croatian defence was too good and the minutes ticked down.
Croatia drew a penalty at 0:39 on Randic for his third. Cule took the penalty
and hit the crossbar. Serbia called timeout but the instructions to the
team were drowned out by the Croatian fans behind the team. The ploy worked and
Tomasevic converted for 12-8 to close the match.
Flash Quotes:
Ratko Rudic: Head Coach Croatia Mens Senior National Team " Last night, we did not use the skills we have. We played our best game today. I am happy to see that the best Croatian players of tomorrow can step up and play the game like they did today."
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Game 104: Italy (ITA) vs Hungary (HUN) on 8/26/2007
By Joan Gould @ 10:21 PM :: 1238 Views :: 0 Comments
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Game 104: Los Alamitos, Sunday, August 26, Play-off 1-2 (GOLD)
ITALY 6 HUNGARY 9
Referees: Steve ROTSART (USA), Alexander GALKIN (RUS)
Quarters: 0-1, 2-2, 2-3, 1-3
Teams:
ITALY: William WASHBURN, Niccolo PATRONE, Giacomo NINFA (1), Paride
SACCOIA, Alex GIORGETTI, Edoardo CALIOGNA (1), Niccolo FIGARI (4), Marco
FERRONE, Federico LA PENNA, Francesco LO CASCIO, Alessandro NORA, Gianmarco
GUIDALDI, Dario GENNARO. Head Coach: Pietro IVALDI.
HUNGARY: David BISZTRITSANYI, Endre BORSOS, Botand SZABO (1), Gabor
PECZ, Zsolt LAZAR (1), Tamas SZIKLAI, Viktor VOROS, Attila KINCSES, Ferenc SALAMON
(2), Denes VARGA (3), Balazs HARAI (1), Lonzo MARNITZ (1), Attila DECKER.
Head Coach: Tibor KESZTHELYI.
Shooting success: ITA 6/24; HUN 9/30
Extra Man: ITA 5/16 HUN 3/14
Pen: ITA 0/1
Goalkeeper saves: ITA 13; HUN 8
Match Report:
It was Hungary who controlled the gold-medal final from start to
finish. Itwas a heated exchange with Hungary losing four players and Italy three
withthree going for misconduct. The opening quarter was a test of the goalkeepers and here it was
Bisztritsanyi who came out on top with some spectacular saves.
Washburn, at the other end, was also impressive. Only Varga could find a slot to
post the ball. His long shot came off the right post at 5:08. The flurry of
shots and saves had the sell-out crowd on the edge of their seats, if they had
one. A goal came early in the second when Ninfa scored off the post on extra
at 7:29. Varga lifted the crowd with his second goal and 28th for the
tournament on a cross pass, which picked him out on the far post at two
metres. A minute later Salamon was on the board for 3-1 with a bomb
from the top. Both team utilised timeouts but neither succeeded with goals
following the return. Figari blasted from the top at 1:17 to narrow the margin.
Soon after, when Italy had two players excluded in succession, Figari
intercepted the cross pass to deny Hungary another goal before halftime.
There was plenty of action in the third with Varga scoring a third for
4-2 on extra. Figari responded, also on extra. Lazar drilled from the top
for 5-3. Figari scored a disputed goal at 2:20 for 5-4 down. After this an
Italian was struck in the face and did not take part in the game. The
referee chose to ignore the injury. Washburn, the goalkeeper, came to
his aid and threw the ball from the pool. The referee turned the ball over
and Hungary¹s Guidaldi earned a misconduct foul. Szabo converted for 6-4
just nMarnitz used his considerable bulk to turn and score at two metres for
7-4 at 6:40 in the final period of the championship. The same could be said
of fellow man mountain Harai when heavily guarded at two metres. At 8-4
and with 4:24 remaining, the championship was heading to Hungary. Figari
thought not and scored his fourth for 8-5. Harai gained a misconduct and then
gave up a penalty foul. Figari shot but Bisztritsanyi blocked. Ninfa gained
a misconduct foul and Salamon converted extra for 9-5. With the Hungarians
celebrating the Italians didn¹t finish and Caliogna sent in a long
shot with four seconds left to close the championship.
Kemeny Ferenc--Hungary
"This game was very easy, yesterday and the day before was the championship, three goals is a big difference.""From start until the end of the game we have the advantage""This is the expectation in Hungary, this is our national sport like baseball in America."
What this win means... "It means that maybe one player off this team can go to the senior team."
Endre Borsos--Hungary
On winning, "It means my life, we train for this for the last 12 years.""It wasn't easy, it was a hard game, it was a war, we had to concentrate the entire time."
On the goal of winning, "Yes, but we didn't want to speak about the winning until we got to that game."
On playing in America "It was a great time, a great holiday, a vacation, it was a hard job though, I like America."
William Washburn -- Italy
On losing-- "It hurt a lot because I tried to win until the end. It makes me mad we could have done better in the first and second quarter."
"I think they are the better team, mostly in defense but we weren't intimidated at all."
To reach this game "I believe in this team, so it doesn't surprise me so much."
On when he knew they could play for gold "After the first match with Hungary I started to believe."
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Game 102: USA (USA) vs Australia (AUS) on 8/26/2007
By Joan Gould @ 6:47 PM :: 1093 Views :: 0 Comments
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Game 102: 14:30 Los Alamitos, Sunday, August 26, Play-off 5-6
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 4 AUSTRALIA 14
Referees: Mehmet SUNGU (TUR), Radislaw KORYZNA (POL)
Quarters: 0-3, 2-3, 1-4, 1-4,
Teams:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Chay LAPIN, JP MacDONELL, JW KRUMPHOLZ (1),
Arjan LIGTENBERG, Anthony ARTUKOVICH, Matthew SAGEHORN, Janson WIGO (1), Will
HINDLE-KATEL (1), Scott DAVIDSON (1), Nico SARDO, Justin RAPPEL,
Spencer WARDEN, Andy STEVENS. Head Coach: Doug PEABODY.
AUSTRALIA: Joel DENNERLEY, Nathan CARGILL (2), Richard CAMPBELL,
Nicholas O¹HALLORAN (4), James YOUNG (1), William MILLER (1), Daniel LAWRENCE
(2), Patrick HARMER (2), Stephen CODY, Rhys HOWDEN, Johnno COTTERILL (2),
Stephen LEWIS, John HAHN. Head Coach: John FOX.
Shooting success: USA 4/22; AUS 14/29
Extra Man: USA 0/13; AUS 5/12
Pen: USA 1/1; AUS 1/1
Goalkeeper saves: USA 8; AUS 6
Match Report:
Australia finished the tournament without being beaten in real play.
The only loss was in a penalty shootout to Hungary in the quarterfinals.
The Aussies put on a show and proved who was the best team outside Europe
and advanced from seventh last time to fifth this time. Australia opened
strongly with two goals in the first two minutes. A third was added by
midway through the period before the USA woke up to the Australian
counter. Australia went 4-0 up before USA struck back with two goals. Australia
then raced away to 6-2 at halftime and 8-2 thanks to two O¹Halloran goals.
Krumpholz sent one across the line for 8-3 but Australia, through two
Lawrence goals, finished the period 10-3 ahead. Cotterill, in
contention for the All Star team, hammered in the 11th to start the fourth but was
fouled out soon after. Sagehorn then had a brain implosion with a major foul
and then a deliberate kick to Cargill, giving up a penalty goal for
O¹Halloran to convert. Harmer and Cargill completed the scoring. Davidson scored
the USA¹s first goal in 11 minutes of play inside the last minute. Luck
was not on the USA¹s side with many one-on-ones missed through poor handling.
USA improved from 11th position in Mar del Plata.
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Game 101: Spain (ESP) vs Germany (GER) on 8/26/2007
By Joan Gould @ 4:43 PM :: 1092 Views :: 0 Comments
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Game 101: 13:00, Los Alamitos, Sunday, August 26, Play-off 7-8
SPAIN 12 GERMANY 4
Referees: Mark KOGANOV (AZE), Andrei BAJANARU (ROU)
Quarters: 3-1, 2-0, 3-2, 4-1
Teams:
SPAIN: Jose Carlos GIERSIG, Eduardo MINGUEZ (2), Francesc SANCHEZ (1),
Eridu ALCALA, Oscar AGUILAR (3), Sergi TRILLES (1), Marc ROCA (1), Abraham
ALCAIDE, Edgar ANGELATS, Gonzalo LOPEZ-ESCRIBANO (3), Blai MALLARACH,
Fernando GUTIERREZ (1), Manuel LLOBREGAT. Head Coach: Joaquim COLET.
GERMANY: Matthias FOERSCH, Sascha KNOOP, Julian REAL (1), Julian FLECK,
Till ROHE (1), Bartolomaeus LUCZAK, Tobias GIETZ, Tobias PREUSS, Holger
DAMMBRUECK, Maximilian MUELLER, Paul SCHUELER (2), Marko STAMM, Tim
HOEHNE.
Head Coach: Peter ROEHLE.
Shooting success: ESP 12/32; GER 12/30
Extra Man: ESP 4/7; GER 1/13
Pen: GER 1/1
Goalkeeper saves: ESP 10; GER 15
Match Report:
Group winner Spain finished in seventh position after claiming the
bronze two years ago. Spain ran rampant over Germany, leading 5-1 at halftime
and climbing to a five-goal margin after three. Spain had the moves, the
counter-attack and the healthier man-up advantage. Germany couldn¹t
put away the extra-man shots, which proved critical. Only one from 13 attempts
does not lead to a successful game. Goalkeeper Giersig stopped some
excellent shots at times but missed some straight-forward ones. Perhaps the early
flight home weighed on the Germans¹ minds more than trying to win against Spain. Germany finished eighth in 2003 but did not contest the Mar del
Plata
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Game 100: Greece (GRE) vs France (FRA) on 8/26/2007
By Joan Gould @ 3:40 PM :: 1081 Views :: 0 Comments
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Game 100: 10:30, Los Alamitos, Sunday, August 26, Play-off 9-10
GREECE 9 FRANCE 8
Referees: Srdjan MISKOVIC (SRB), Torsten BOCK (GER)
Quarters: 4-0, 1-3, 1-1, 3-4
Teams:
GREECE: Konstantinos FLEGAS, Papadogonas PANAGIOTIS (1), Alexandros
GOUNAS, Nikolaos BATAKIS, Andreas MIRALIS (5), Menelaos TZAMANTAKIS, Thomas
TSAKIRAKIS (1), Christodoulos KOLOMVOS (1), Konstantinos MOURIKIS (1),
Ioannis FOUNTOULIS, Iannes BERISTIANOS, Gerasimos VARDARAMATOS,
Panagiotis CHRONOPOULOS. Head Coach: Panagiotis TROULOS.
FRANCE: David SAUZEAU, Emilien BUGEAUD, Harrison CHAVE, Sylvain
DESQUERRE, Nicholas GOLEJEWSKI, Manuel LAVERSANNE, Raphael PIRAT (1), Lucas
DEVEMY, Mehdi MARZOUKI (2), Michael BODEGAS (3), Florian BRITTO, Alexandre
CAMARASA (2), Tristan NICOLET. Head Coach: Joseph BRITTO.
Shooting success: GRE 9/34; FRA 8/35
Extra Man: GRE 4/9; FRA 3/11
Pen: GRE 4/4; FRA 1/1
Goalkeeper saves: GRE 15; FRA 11
Match Report:
Greece slipped to ninth from sixth in the world rankings and a far cry
from victory in 2001 in Istanbul, Turkey. It almost lost the game when after
4-0 up at quarter time, it managed to stave off the French attack 9-8. It
was Miralis who went wild with three goals in the opening period. He gained
his second penalty in the second and collected a third penalty goal in the
fourth. The margin was trimmed to two in the second and maintained in
the third. As the game heated, Greek coach Troulos gained a yellow card. He
lost two of his players to major fouls, as did France¹s Britto. Mourikis
scored on extra in the fourth for 8-5 and Greece looked safe but Marzouki and
Bodegas, back from injury, scored to narrow the margin to one.
Fountoulis gave up a penalty foul and Bodegas grabbed his third to equalise at
3:13. Greece gained an extra man and went to a timeout. The result was
gaining a penalty shot 18 seconds into possession time. Tsakirakis converted at
1:06 and it proved the winner. France was 10th in Mar del Plata two years
ago so maintained its ranking.
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Game 98: Brazil (BRA) vs Canada (CAN) on 8/26/2007
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Game 99: Japan (JPN) vs Slovakia (SVK) on 8/26/2007
By Joan Gould @ 12:49 PM :: 976 Views :: 0 Comments
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Game 99: 9:00, Los Alamitos, Sunday, August 26, Play-off 11-12
JAPAN 16 SLOVAKIA 10
Referees: Masoud REZVANI (IRI), Miroslav VLASIC (CRO)
Quarters: 2-2, 3-3, 5-1, 7-4
Teams:
JAPAN: Hideyuki TANAMURA, Yuseuke SHIMIZU (2), Hiroki YANASE (1), Naoki
DOSHITA (1), Yuya DAIGO (1), Masatoshi SOMEYA (1), Akira YANASE (5), Hiroshi
YAMAGUCHI (1), Hiroki WAKAMATSU (2), So MATSUMOTO (2), Yoko TAKAHASHI,
Yoichi YASUDA (1), Takafumi IKEMOTO. Head Coach: Tadashi KITAZAKI.
SLOVAKIA: Ivan BLICHA, Erik BUNDSHUCH, Andreo JANICEK (1), Juraj BIELIK (2),
Stanislav VANO, Matus CIERNIK, Lukas SEMAN (3), Stefan PATAKI (3),
David PAPUGA (1), Tomas MESTER, Lukas KOSIK. Head Coach: Jan KUKO.
Shooting success: JPN 17/22; SVK 10/37
Extra Man: JPN 7/9; SVK 1/5
Pen: JPN 1//1
Goalkeeper saves: JPN 12; SVK 4
Match Report:
Japan slipped two placings from two years ago but finished in 11th
place with a precision game of water polo. The big gap came in the third
period when, with a sudden burst of energy and adeptness at counter-attack,
the margin ballooned to four goals after two tied periods. Slovakia
narrowed the
gap to three on three occasions but in the last three minutes it went
to five and six before Akira Yanase chanced his arm with a shot on extra
just four seconds from time for 17-10. Slovakia improved one placing from
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Game 97: Argentina (ARG) vs Egypt (EGY) on 8/26/2007
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Game 17: Kuwait (KUW) vs Argentina (ARG) on 8/19/2007
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Referees: Rodrigues, Jones
Delegate: Whitehouse
Kuwait Goals: Al-Askari 1, Al-Safran 1
Kuwait Saves: Altameemi 15
Argentina Goals: Pelroni 2, Corti 4, Villa 2, Echenique 5, Olivieri 1, Kwaterra 2
Argentina Saves: Campanella 5
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Game 16: Italy (ITA) vs Germany (GER) on 8/19/2007
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Referees: Koganov, Sungu
Delegate: Diathessopoulos
Italy Goals: Giorgietti 1, Caliogna 1, Figari 4, Lo Cascio 1, Nora 3, Guidali 1
Italy Saves: Washburn 8
Germany Goals: Rohe 2, Gietz 1, Mueller 1, Schueler 2, Stamm 1,
Germany Saves: Foersch 10
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