The European Water Polo Championship, which is scheduled to start on January 3 next year, should be held in Croatia.
Last week, the European Swimming Federation (LEN) definitively canceled hosting Netanya because of the Israel-Palestine war, and at one point there was a big question whether the EP would even take place.
Now a solution is on the horizon, so it is expected that Zagreb will be the host (as in 2010), after Split hosted the best European selections in the summer of 2022.
In both cases, the Croats became the champions of the Old Continent.
Berlin was also an option for January 2024, but with less than two months until the start of the competition, there are fewer and fewer dilemmas where the European Championship will be held, which, among other things, is a qualification for the Olympic Games in Paris next summer.
Namely, the European champion or the best-placed team in the tournament after Hungary, Greece and France, who already have a visa to the City of Light, will qualify for the OI.
The three best national teams from the EP go to the World Championship hosted by Doha (February 2 - 18 of the following year), and the Hungarians, Greeks, Spaniards, Serbs, Italians and French have already secured that right from the European selections.
All this is, of course, also important for the Montenegrin national team, which will play in group A at the European Championship.
The rivals of the "Sharks" are Spain, France and Croatia.
The top two teams go directly to the quarter-finals, while the third-placed and fourth-placed teams meet the top two teams from the Division 2 groups in the round of XNUMX.
The group in which Montenegro is in the round of XNUMX meets the teams from Group A of Division B, where Serbia is placed. Apart from Serbia, the group also includes Germany, Israel and Malta.
It is also announced that the European Women's Championship should be held in Eindhoven.
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