The water polo national team of Montenegro has its first important competitive exam in 2019 tomorrow.
In the quarter-final tournament of the European zone of the World League, they will play against Hungary in Zagreb from 15:XNUMX.
If they beat the Hungarians, the "sharks" will advance to the semi-finals, and probably also qualify for the final tournament, which will be played in Belgrade.
Three teams from Zagreb will qualify for the finals of the World League, with the host Serbia having a guaranteed place, and the big favorite in the quarter-finals against Spain.
"It would be very good if we beat the Hungarians and qualify for the final tournament of the World League, but it will not be easy because this tournament is specific for two reasons. First, the teams are quite exhausted, three matches are played in three days. Players from any national team they are not prepared physically and mentally to play three matches in a row. I hope that the motivation of every player from our team will be at a high level, and that all these problems will be overcome. The second thing is that they will play according to new rules, and we will see how much we adapted to them. We were lucky enough to be in Zagreb with Croatia for four days, we did several joint training sessions, we did a couple of tactical things that are most important for the team to adapt to the new rules. I hope that we succeeded in that, that we adapted, and that it will look quite good against the Hungarians," said Aleksandar Ivović.
The winner of the World League will qualify for the Olympics.
SCHEDULE:
Friday, April 5:
15:00h Montenegro - Hungary - G1
16:45 Spain - Serbia - G2
18:30 Italy - Russia - G3
20:15 Greece - Croatia - G4
Saturday, April 6:
15:00 defeated G1 - defeated G3
16:45 defeated G2 - defeated G4
18:30 winner of G1 - winner of G3
20:15 winner of G2 - winner of G4
Sunday, April 7:
Placement matches
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