2010 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup

2010 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup
2010 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup
League	FINA Water Polo World Cup
Sport	Water polo
Duration	1 – 4 August
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The 14th edition of the Men's FINA Water Polo World Cup was held in Oradea, Romania from July 27 to August 1, 2010.^[1]

Format

8 teams qualified for the 2010 FINA World Cup. They were split into two groups of 4 teams. After playing a Round-robin every team advanced to the quarterfinals. The best ranked team of Group A played against the fourth ranked team of Group B, the second ranked team of Group A against the third ranked team of Group B the third ranked team of Group A against the second ranked team of Group B and the fourth ranked team of Group A against the best ranked team of Group B. The winners of those quarterfinals advanced to the Semis and played out the champion while the losers of the quarterfinals competed in placement matches.

Teams

The top eight teams from the previous world championship are no longer qualified. Now only the top three teams from the previous world championship qualify, with one guest per continent (the highest-ranked team from the previous world championship).

Teams	Qualified as
Romania Serbia Spain Croatia (European Host) United States Australia China ( South Africa) Iran	Host (7th 2009 World Championship) 1st 2009 World Championship 2nd 2009 World Championship 3rd 2009 World Championship 1st European team at 2009 World Championship 1st American team at 2009 World Championship 1st Oceanian team at 2009 World Championship 1st Asian team at 2009 World Championship 1st African team at 2009 World Championship replace South Africa withdrawn

Groups

Group A	Group B
Spain Romania (H) Australia Iran	Serbia Croatia United States China

Preliminary round

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

Group A

	Team	G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points	Qualification
1.	Spain	3	3	0	49	16	+33	6	Quarter-finals
2.	Romania (H)	3	2	1	45	24	+21	4	Quarter-finals
3.	Australia	3	1	2	42	24	+18	2	Quarter-finals
4.	Iran	3	0	3	6	78	−72	0	Quarter-finals

27 July 2010 17:00	Report	Iran	1–26	Romania	Referees: Jianguo (CHN), Cabral (BRA)
		Score by quarters: 0–8, 0–8, 0–6, 1–4
		Jafari 1	Goals	Georgescu 5

27 July 2010 20:00	Report	Australia	7–9	Spain	Referees: Štampalija (CRO), Goldenberg (USA)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 1–3, 0–1, 2–3
		McGregor 3	Goals	Molina, Perrone 3

28 July 2010 17:00	Report	Australia	9–11	Romania	Referees: Ćirić (SRB), Koganov (AZE)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 3–4, 1–2, 2–4
		Miller 3	Goals	Redu, Kádár 3

28 July 2010 20:00	Report	Iran	1–26	Spain	Referees: Cabral (BRA), Štampalija (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 0–6, 0–7, 1–5, 0–8
		Jafari 1	Goals	Garcia 5

29 July 2010 17:00	Report	Romania	8–14	Spain	Referees: Ćirić (SRB), Koganov (AZE)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 2–4, 3–6, 2–3
		Iosep, Georgescu 2	Goals	Minguell, García 3

29 July 2010 20:00	Report	Iran	4–26	Australia
		Score by quarters: 0-6, 1-3, 3-8, 0-9
		Kouhi 2	Goals	Campbell, Younger, Miller 4

Group B

	Team	G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points	Qualification
1.	Croatia	3	3	0	33	19	+14	6	Quarter-finals
2.	Serbia	3	2	1	40	27	+13	4	Quarter-finals
3.	United States	3	1	2	26	32	−6	2	Quarter-finals
4.	China	3	0	3	18	39	−21	0	Quarter-finals

27 July 2010 15:00	Report	United States	10–6	China	Referees: Alexandrescu (ROU), Hafezi (IRN)
		Score by quarters: 1–0, 3–3, 3–1, 3–2
		Sharf, Hopkins, Hutten 2	Goals	Tan Feihu 2

27 July 2010 18:30	Report	Croatia	10–8	Serbia	Referees: Shaydakov (RUS), Koganov (AZE)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 1–1, 3–2, 4–3
		Sukno 4	Goals	Udovičić, Filipović 2

28 July 2010 15:00	Report	Croatia	14–4	China	Referees: Hart (AUS), Hafezi (IRN)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 4–1, 2–0, 5–2
		Dobud 4	Goals	Liang 3

28 July 2010 18:30	Report	United States	9–17	Serbia	Referees: Moliner (ESP), Shaydakov (RUS)
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 1–3, 1–4, 6–7
		Sharf, Azevedo 2	Goals	Udovičić 5

29 July 2010 15:00	Report	China	8–15	Serbia	Referees: Moliner (ESP), Hart (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 0–4, 2–6, 4–4
		Liang 2	Goals	Udovičić, Vapenski, Nikić, Aleksić, Filipović, Mitrović 2

29 July 2010 18:30	Report	United States	7–9	Croatia	Referees: Shaydakov (RUS), Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 1-2, 1-2, 1-3, 4-2
		Hopkins, Bailey 2	Goals	Joković, Sukno 3

Knockout round

Championship

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

July 30 – Oradea

Spain	11
		July 31 – Oradea
China	5
		Spain	10
July 30 – Oradea
		Serbia	12
Australia	9
				August 1 – Oradea
Serbia	12
				Serbia	13
July 30 – Oradea
				Croatia	7
Iran	2
		July 31 – Oradea
Croatia	23
		Croatia	11
July 30 – Oradea
		United States	9	Third place
Romania	12
				August 1 – Oradea
United States	14
				Spain	12

				United States	8

Quarterfinals

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

30 July 2010 15:30	Report	Australia	9–12	Serbia	Referees: Alexandrescu (ROU), Cabral (BRA)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 2–4, 2–3, 3–2
		Younger, Howden 2	Goals	Aleksić 3

30 July 2010 17:00	Report	Romania	12–14	United States	Referees: Moliner (ESP), Shaydakov (RUS)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 4–4, 4–4, 3–5
		Negrean 4	Goals	Azevedo, Bailey, Hutten 3

30 July 2010 18:30	Report	Spain	11–5	China	Referees: Hafezi (IRI), Hart (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 5–1, 2–0, 3–2
		Molina, Español, Vallès, García 2	Goals	Tan, Liang, Pan, Wang, Han 1

30 July 2010 20:00	Report	Iran	2–23	Croatia	Referees: Jianguo (CHN), Koganov (AZE)
		Score by quarters: 0–6, 1–8, 0–5, 1–4
		Mirmehdi, Soltani 1	Goals	Bošković, Sukno 4

Semifinals

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

31 July 2010 18:30	Report	United States	9–11	Croatia	Referees: Alexandrescu (ROU), Hart (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 2–3, 4–2, 2–3
		Azevedo, Bailey 3	Goals	Bošković 4

31 July 2010 20:00	Report	Serbia	12–10	Spain	Referees: Koganov (AZE), Cabral (BRA)
		Score by quarters: 4–4, 3–3, 4–3, 1–0
		Prlainović 4	Goals	García 3

Bronze medal match

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

1 August 2010 16:00	Report	United States	8–12	Spain	Referees: Hart (AUS), Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 3–3, 1–2, 3–4
		Powers 2	Goals	García 4

Final

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

1 August 2010 17:30	Report	Croatia	7–13	Serbia	Referees: Goldenberg (USA), Koganov (AZE)
		Score by quarters: 0–4, 3–2, 3–5, 1–2
		Sukno 3	Goals	Gocić, Udovičić, Filipović 3

5th–8th playoffs

Semi-finals		Fifth place

July 31 – Oradea

China	6
		August 1 – Oradea
Australia	10
		Australia	5
July 31 – Oradea
		Romania	9
Iran	6

Romania	24
		Seventh place

		August 1 – Oradea

		China	20

		Iran	5

5th–8th semifinals

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

31 July 2010 15:30	Report	Australia	10–6	China	Referees: Goldenberg (USA), Hafezi (IRI)
		Score by quarters: 4–1, 2–2, 1–2, 3–1
		Campbell, Younger, McGregor 2	Goals	Pan 2

31 July 2010 17:00	Report	Romania	24–6	Iran	Referees: Štampalija (CRO), Ćirić (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 4–1, 8–3, 9–1, 3–1
		Negrean 6	Goals	Mardani, Mirmehdi, Jafari 2

7th place playoff

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

1 August 2010 10:00	Report	China	20–5	Iran	Referees: Cabral (BRA), Ćirić (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 5–0, 6–2, 4–1, 5–2
		Junliang 4	Goals	Karami, Pirouzkhah 2

5th place playoff

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

1 August 2010 11:30	Report	Australia	5–9	Romania	Referees: Moliner (ESP), Štampalija (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 1–3, 2–2, 1–3
		McGregor 3	Goals	Iosep 3

Final standings

RANK^[1]	TEAM
	Serbia
	Croatia
	Spain
4.	United States
5.	Romania
6.	Australia
7.	China
8.	Iran

2010 Men's FINA Water Polo World Cup
Serbia Second title

Team roster

1. Slobodan Soro (GK), 2. Marko Avramović, 3. Živko Gocić, 4. Vanja Udovičić, 5. Boris Vapenski, 6. Duško Pijetlović, 7. Slobodan Nikić, 8. Milan Aleksić, 9. Miloš Miličić, 10. Filip Filipović, 11. Andrija Prlainović, 12. Stefan Mitrović, and 13. Gojko Pijetlović (GK).^[1] Head coach: Dejan Udovičić.

Serbia, Croatia, Spain, United States and Romania qualified for the 2011 World Aquatics Championships.

Individual awards

Best Player
- Vanja Udovičić (SRB)
Best Goalkeeper
- Slobodan Soro (SRB)
Best Scorer
- Sandro Sukno (CRO) — 17 goals

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 25. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.

External links

Official site

[HistoFINA_PDF-1] "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 25. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.

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