Seventh place in Split (2022), then sixth in Zagreb (2024), and a similar epilogue was brought by the European Championships in Belgrade. This time, however, with a much more positive impression.
The Montenegrin water polo team will finish the European Championship with a match for 7th place, the last rival in the Belgrade Arena at 18 pm will be Romania.
The "Sharks" are far from medals after the bronze medal in Budapest 2020, but this January a rejuvenated team Dejan Savić announced that it has a bright future - this was also shown by the victory over the host Serbia, a team that will go all the way to the European crown. Regardless of the fact that the duel had no significant result.
- The victory over Serbia has boosted our confidence, but we still have a game against Romania. We want to close the European Championship properly, with a victory - he said Marko Mršić.
He thinks similarly and dmitrij holod.
- Although the match with Romania is not imperative, for us as a young team every match is very important, especially every victory. The duel with Serbia was not of any significance, but when you defeat Serbia in the middle of Belgrade, it is certainly a big victory for our team - emphasized Holod.
Romania recorded victories over Georgia, Turkey and Slovakia in Belgrade, while being convincingly defeated by Croatia and Italy.
- They are a good team, they have a good center, good outfield players. However, I think we are better than them. We have to look only at ourselves, to improve ourselves - added Mršić.
This was Montenegro's tenth appearance in total, and in addition to the bronze in Budapest, it won three more medals - gold in Malaga in 2008 and silver medals in Eindhoven (2012) and Belgrade (2016).
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