Starting tomorrow, Bucharest and nearby Otopeni will host the World Championship for water polo players under the age of 20, a competition where even young sharks will chase their dreams.
Yesterday, our junior national team arrived in the capital of Romania, where tomorrow (Saturday, 12.30:XNUMX p.m.) against Spain - in one of the three group A derbies - opens the planetary championship.
"The conditions in Bucharest at first glance are excellent - we want to start this championship in the best possible way", said the captain of Montenegro Marko Mršić from Bucharest.
Spain should not be unknown, believes center Jovan Vujović.
"We played with them last year as well, we analyzed them recently. We expect a tough match, but also that we can win - as in all other matches in the group," Vujović is clear.
Petar Radanović's men are preparing hard, but everything should fall into place when the games start - apart from Spain, the rivals of our selection will be Croatia and Italy.
"Before the World Cup, we had a very tiring tournament in Belgrade where two games were played a day and that exhausted us a lot, but after that we specified certain things that didn't work in that tournament," Mršić added.
The world championship, in which 20 national teams are participating, this year brings a somewhat strange system, so the eight best by rank (including Montenegro) will play in groups A and B, while the other national teams are in groups with three national teams each (C, D , E and F).
Montenegro is in group A, and group B consists of Greece, Serbia, USA and Hungary.
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Canada, Japan and South Africa are in Group C, Brazil, China and Kazakhstan in D, New Zealand, Peru and Romania in Group E, and Iran, Australia and Argentina in F.
The two best teams from groups A and B will advance directly to the quarterfinals, and the third and fourth-placed teams from groups A and B will play against the teams from groups C, D, E and F to advance to the top eight.
MONTENEGRO AT ST
Saturday
12.30 pm Spain - Montenegro
Sunday
18.30:XNUMX p.m. Montenegro - Croatia
Monday
14.00h Italy - Montenegro
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