Although it seemed that Montenegro was the one losing the most by pausing the Regional Water Polo League due to the small number of clubs, and that Croatia, and even Serbia, wanted to strengthen their national championships, different reactions are now coming.
And, this immediately after the establishment of a new joint league in which only clubs from our country and Serbia will participate.
Thus, "Slobodna Dalmacija" writes that this is a low blow and that the clubs and associations of Montenegro and Serbia played the Croatian side.
"They no longer wanted a joint league, so they founded their own, but without us," the aforementioned media outlet emphasizes.
They also remind that the story is "convoluted", that Serbia allegedly decided to focus only on its own championship, and that the Croats and Montenegrins were unable to reach an agreement, mostly because of the name of the swimming pool in Kotor.
Regarding all this, they refer to Perica Bukić, executive vice president of the Croatian Water Polo Association, and also president of the Board of Directors of the Regional League.
"It seems that our neighbors have changed the movie and founded their own league, without Croats," adds "Slobodna Dalmacija".
When information emerged about twenty days ago that after 17 years, there would be a break in the Regional League, in which teams from Montenegro, Croatia and Serbia participated, the leaders of our water polo spoke out.
The Water Polo and Swimming Federation of Montenegro then said that the only concrete proposal for preserving the RVL and resolving this issue was given by the VPCSG, which clearly presented the reform of the league, progress and profitability for the clubs.
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It was precisely at the initiative of the VPSCG that a meeting was held yesterday in Belgrade with representatives of the Water Polo Federation of Serbia and clubs from that country, at which an agreement was reached on the formation of a new Regional League.
It was agreed that the Premier League will have eight clubs (Jadran m:tel, Primorac, Budućnost One, Radnički, Novi Beograd, Šabac, Crvena zvezda and Partizan), the First League will have nine (Kattaro, Budva Budvanska rivijera, Valis, Nais, Stari grad, Vukovi, Vojvodina, Zemun and Belgrade).
"It's actually a league that is almost the same as the one in previous years, only of course without Croatian clubs in it," concludes "Slobodna Dalmacija".
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