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Which clubs have the most players in Tokyo?

July 28, 2021
Szolnok Photo by Laszlo Balogh/Total Waterpolo

Almost all of the best water polo players in the world are in Tokyo at the moment. There are no many water polo superstars who miss the Tokyo Olympics.

Do you know which male club has the most Olympians?

It’s not hard to guess. The answer is – Pro Recco.

Although three players who are on Olympic rosters left the club this summer, 12 Recco’s players are competing at the Olympic water polo tournament (three of them arrived this summer). They are members of six different national teams. Besides the 12, Recco’s new head coach Sandro Sukno participate in the Tokyo Games, as a member of Croatia’s staff (he is Ivica Tucak’s assistant).

Barceloneta is represented by ten players (all are on Spain’s roster) and a new coach Elvis Fatovic, who will leave Australia’s bench after the 2020 Olympic Games.

Olympiacos and Novi Beograd have been the most active clubs during the transfer window. Nine players of Olympiacos are battling for glory in Tokyo, including three captains of the national teams – Filip Filipovic (Serbia), Andro Buslje (Croatia), and Ioannis Fountoulis (Greece). Olympiacos’ coach Theodoros Vlachos guides Greece.

Six Olympians have arrived at Novi Beograd this summer. They have been welcomed by head coach Vladimir Vujasinovic, who is Dejan Savic’s assistant in the coaching staff of the Serbian national team.

We composed the list of the European clubs which have three Olympians or more on their rosters.
The transfer window hasn’t been finished yet, so there will undoubtedly be changes on this list after the Tokyo Olympics. A few players are still free agents (Bodegas from Italy, Milos from Croatia, etc), but most big transfers were completed before Tokyo.

European clubs with three Olympians or more

(Note: Players and coaches marked with * arrived at a current club this summer)

Pro Recco, Italy (12 players and a coach)

Pro Recco captain Aleksandar Ivovic Photo:LEN Champions League/FB

Olympians in Tokyo: Del Lungo*, Figlioli, N. Presciutti, Velotto, Echenique, Di Fulvio, Aicardi (all Italy), Ivovic (Montenegro), Zalanki* (Hungary), Loncar* (Croatia), Younger (Australia), Hallock (USA), head coach Sukno* (Croatia assistant coach).

Olympians who departed this summer: Mandic (Serbia), Bijac (Croatia), Luongo (Italy).

Barceloneta, Spain (10 players and a coach)

Barceloneta’s Olympians Photo:cnab/FB

Olympians in Tokyo:Lopez, Perrone, Fernandez, Munarriz, Larumbe, De Toro, Granados, Famera, Bustos, Aguirre* (all Spain), head coach Fatovic* (Australia).

Departed this summer: Aleksic (Serbia), Bodegas (Italy), Mallarach (Spain).

Olympiacos, Greece (9 players and a coach)

Photo:Olympiacos SFP/FB

Olympians in Tokyo: Zerdevas, Genidounias, Fountoulis*, Dervisis, Mourikis, Kolomvos* (all Greece), Bijac*, Buslje* (both Croatia), Filipovic* (Serbia), head coach Vlachos (Greece)

Departed this summer: Irving, Daube (both USA), Argyropoulos, Kapotsis, Skoumpakis (all Greece)

Novi Beograd, Serbia (6 players and a coach)

Olympians in Tokyo: G.Pijetlovic*, D.Pijetlovic*,Β  Mandic*, Jaksic*, S.Rasovic* (all Serbia), Vlachopoulos* (Greece), head coach Vujasinovic (Serbia’s assistant coach).

Brescia, Italy (5)

Olympians in Tokyo: Dolce, Renzuto, Luongo*, (all Italy), Lazic (Serbia), Tesanovic* (Montenegro).

Departed this summer: Jokovic (Croatia), Del Lungo (Italy), Vlachopoulos (Greece).

Vasas, Hungary (5)

Olympians in Tokyo: Erdelyi*, Mezei* (both Hungary), B.Mitrovic, Randjelovic (both Serbia), Dr. Brguljan (Montenegro).

Jug, Croatia (5)

Olympians in Tokyo: Jokovic*, Fatovic (both Croatia), Papanastasiou, Argyropoulos* (both Greece), Obert (USA).

Departed this summer: Obradovic, Loncar, Garcia (all Croatia). Note: Garcia will retire after the Tokyo Olympics.

Marseille, France (4 players and a coach)

Olympians in Tokyo: Prlainovic (Serbia), Cuckovic, Spaic (both Montenegro), Vukicevic (Croatia), head coach Scepanovic (Montenegro assistant coach)

Ferencvaros, Hungary (4)

Olympians in Tokyo: Varga, Jansik, Vamos, Vogel (all Hungary)

Departed this summer: Jaksic (Serbia), Mezei, Zalanki (both Hungary), Fountoulis (Greece)

Partizan, Serbia (3)

Olympians in Tokyo: S.Mitrovic, Aleksic* (both Serbia), Bowen* (USA).

Four champions that are out of the list

Hungarian champion Szolnok and champions of three ex-Yugoslavian countries: Radnicki, Mladost, Jadran Herceg Novi aren’t in the list of the clubs with three or more Olympians, but a lot of players who represent their nations in Tokyo played for these clubs in the last season.

Two Olympians left Szolnok after the end of the clubs’ season – Serbia captain Filip Filipovic (Olympiacos) and Dusko Pijetlovic (Novi Beograd). Szolnok, which won two trophies this year (Hungarian League and LEN Euro Cup) is represented by Hungary’s goalkeeper Viktor Nagy and Danial Angyal in Tokyo, but Nagy will probably retire after the Tokyo Olympics.

Mladost Zagreb had a very good team in the last season, but only one player of the Zagreb-based team plays in Tokyo – goalkeeper Ivan Marcelic (Croatia). Four players of the Croatian national team have left Mladost in the last few months: Andro Buslje (Olympiacos), Luka Bukic (Jadran Split), Josip Vrlic (Radnicki Kragujevac) and Lovre Milos (free agent)

One of Radnicki’s best players in the last season Strahinja Rasovic is on Serbia’s Olympic roster, but he moved to Novi Beograd after winning the title with Radnicki. Still, the Serbian and the Regional League champion has two Olympians – Aleksa Ukropina (Montenegro) and newcomer Josip Vrlic (Croatia).

Jadran’s only player in Tokyo is the club’s captain Marko Petkovic (Montenegro), while two members of the team of Montenegro left the club this summer – goalkeeper Petar Tesanovic (Brescia) and Dusan Banicevic (Sabadell). Djuro Radovic, who moved from Jadran to Olympiacos, would have gone to Japan if he hadn’t got injured.

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