Irina Dobrekova

The 14th edition of the Men's FINA Water Polo World Cup was held in Oradea, Romania from July 27 to August 1, 2010.

Format

8 teams qualified for the 2010 FINA World Cup. They were split into two groups of 4 teams. After playing a Round-robin every team advanced to the quarterfinals. The best ranked team of Group A played against the fourth ranked team of Group B, the second ranked team of Group A against the third ranked team of Group B the third ranked team of Group A against the second ranked team of Group B and the fourth ranked team of Group A against the best ranked team of Group B. The winners of those quarterfinals advanced to the Semis and played out the champion while the losers of the quarterfinals competed in placement matches.

Groups

Preliminary round

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

Group A

	Team	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1.	Spain	3	3	0	0	49	16	+33	6
2.	Romania	3	2	0	1	45	24	+21	4
3.	Australia	3	1	0	2	42	24	+18	2
4.	Iran	3	0	0	3	6	78	−72	0

27 July 2010 17:00	Report	Iran	1 – 26	Romania	Referees: Jianguo (CHN), Cabral (BRA)
		Score by quarters: 0–8, 0–8, 0–6, 1–4
		Jafari 1	Goals	Georgescu 5

27 July 2010 20:00	Report	Australia	7 – 9	Spain	Referees: Stampalija (CRO), Goldenberg (USA)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 1–3, 0–1, 2–3
		McGregor 3	Goals	Molina, Perrone 3

28 July 2010 17:00	Report	Australia	9 – 11	Romania	Referees: Ciric (SRB), Koganov (AZE)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 3–4, 1–2, 2–4
		Miller 3	Goals	Redu, Kadar 3

28 July 2010 20:00	Report	Iran	1 – 26	Spain	Referees: Cabral (BRA), Stampalija (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 0–6, 0–7, 1–5, 0–8
		Jafari 1	Goals	Garcia 5

29 July 2010 17:00	Report	Romania	8 – 14	Spain	Referees: Ciric (SRB), Koganov (AZE)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 2–4, 3–6, 2–3
		Iosep, Georgescu 2	Goals	Minguell, Garcia 3

29 July 2010 20:00	Report	Iran	4 – 26	Australia
		Score by quarters: 0-6, 1-3, 3-8, 0-9
		Kouhi 2	Goals	Campbell, Younger, Miller 4

Group B

	Team	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1.	Croatia	3	3	0	0	33	19	+14	6
2.	Serbia	3	2	0	1	40	27	+13	4
3.	United States	3	1	0	2	26	32	−6	2
4.	China	3	0	0	3	18	39	−21	0

27 July 2010 15:00	Report	United States	10 – 6	China	Referees: Alexandrescu (ROU), Hafezi (IRN)
		Score by quarters: 1–0, 3–3, 3–1, 3–2
		Sharf, Hopkins, Hutten 2	Goals	Tan Feihu 2

27 July 2010 18:30	Report	Croatia	10 – 8	Serbia	Referees: Shaydakov (RUS), Koganov (AZE)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 1–1, 3–2, 4–3
		Sukno 4	Goals	Udovicic, Filipovic 2

28 July 2010 15:00	Report	Croatia	14 – 4	China	Referees: Hart (AUS), Hafezi (IRN)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 4–1, 2–0, 5–2
		Dabud 4	Goals	Liang 3

28 July 2010 18:30	Report	United States	9 – 17	Serbia	Referees: Moliner (ESP), Shaydakov (RUS)
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 1–3, 1–4, 6–7
		Sharf, Azevedo 2	Goals	Udovicic 5

29 July 2010 15:00	Report	China	8 – 15	Serbia	Referees: Moliner (ESP), Hart (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 0–4, 2–6, 4–4
		Liang 2	Goals	Udovicic, Vapenski, Nikic, Aleksic, Filipovic, Mitrovic 2

29 July 2010 18:30	Report	United States	7 – 9	Croatia	Referees: Shaydakov (RUS), Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 1-2, 1-2, 1-3, 4-2
		Hopkins, Bailey 2	Goals	Jokovic, Sukno 3

Knockout round

Championship

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	July 30 – Oradea
	Spain	11
					July 31 – Oradea
	China	5
					Spain	10
	July 30 – Oradea
					Serbia	12
	Australia	9
									August 1 – Oradea
	Serbia	12
									Serbia	13
	July 30 – Oradea
									Croatia	7
	Iran	2
					July 31 – Oradea
	Croatia	23
					Croatia	11			Third place
	July 30 – Oradea
					United States	9
	Romania	12							Spain	12
	United States	14							United States	8
									August 1 – Oradea

Quarterfinals

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

30 July 2010 15:30	Report	Australia	9 – 12	Serbia	Referees: Alexandrescu (ROU), Cabral (BRA)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 2–4, 2–3, 3–2
		Younger, Howden 2	Goals	Aleksic 3

30 July 2010 17:00	Report	Romania	12 – 14	United States	Referees: Moliner (ESP), Shaydakov (RUS)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 4–4, 4–4, 3–5
		Negrean 4	Goals	Azevedo, Bailey, Hutten 3

30 July 2010 18:30	Report	Spain	11 – 5	China	Referees: Hafezi (IRI), Hart (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 5–1, 2–0, 3–2
		Molina, Espanol, Valles, Garcia 2	Goals	Tan, Liang, Pan, Wang, Han 1

30 July 2010 20:00	Report	Iran	2 – 23	Croatia	Referees: Jianguo (CHN), Koganov (AZE)
		Score by quarters: 0–6, 1–8, 0–5, 1–4
		Mirmehdi, Soltani 1	Goals	Boskovic, Sukno 4

Semifinals

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

31 July 2010 18:30	Report	United States	9 – 11	Croatia	Referees: Alexandrescu (ROU), Hart (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 2–3, 4–2, 2–3
		Azevedo, Balley 3	Goals	Boskovic 4

31 July 2010 20:00	Report	Serbia	12 – 10	Spain	Referees: Koganov (AZE), Cabral (BRA)
		Score by quarters: 4–4, 3–3, 4–3, 1–0
		Prlainovic 4	Goals	Garcia 3

Bronze medal match

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1 August 2010 16:00	Report	United States	8 – 12	Spain	Referees: Hart (AUS), Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 3–3, 1–2, 3–4
		Powers 2	Goals	Garcia 4

Final

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

1 August 2010 17:30	Report	Croatia	7 – 13	Serbia	Referees: Goldenberg (USA), Koganov (AZE)
		Score by quarters: 0–4, 3–2, 3–5, 1–2
		Sukno 3	Goals	Gocic, Udovicic, Filipovic 3

5th–8th playoffs

	Semifinals				Fifth place
	July 31 – Oradea
	China	6
	Australia	10
					August 1 – Oradea
					Australia	5
					Romania	9
					Seventh place
	July 31 – Oradea			August 1 – Oradea
	Iran	6		China	20
	Romania	24			Iran	5

5th–8th semifinals

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

31 July 2010 15:30	Report	Australia	10 – 6	China	Referees: Goldenberg (USA), Hafezi (IRI)
		Score by quarters: 4–1, 2–2, 1–2, 3–1
		Campbell, Younger, McGregor 2	Goals	Pan 2

31 July 2010 17:00	Report	Romania	24 – 6	Iran	Referees: Stampalija (CRO), Ciric (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 4–1, 8–3, 9–1, 3–1
		Negrean 6	Goals	Mardani, Mirmehdi, Jafari 2

7th place playoff

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

1 August 2010 10:00	Report	China	20 – 5	Iran	Referees: Cabral (BRA), Ciric (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 5–0, 6–2, 4–1, 5–2
		Junliang 4	Goals	Karami, Pirouzkhah 2

5th place playoff

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

1 August 2010 11:30	Report	Australia	5 – 9	Romania	Referees: Moliner (ESP), Stampalija (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 1–3, 2–2, 1–3
		McGregor 3	Goals	Iosep 3

Final standings

RANK TEAM  Serbia  Croatia  Spain 4.  United States 5.  Romania 6.  Australia 7.  China 8.  Iran

2010 Men's FINA Water Polo World Cup  Serbia Second title Team Roster 1. Slobodan Soro(GK), 2. Marko Avramović, 3. Živko Gocić, 4. Vanja Udovičić, 5. Boris Vapenski, 6. Duško Pijetlović, 7. Slobodan Nikić, 8. Milan Aleksić, 9. Miloš Miličić, 10. Filip Filipović, 11. Andrija Prlainović, 12. Stefan Mitrović, and 13. Gojko Pijetlović(GK). Head Coach: Dejan Udovičić.

• Serbia, Croatia, Spain, United States and Romania qualified for the 2011 World Aquatics Championships.

Individual awards

• Best Player

•  Vanja Udovičić (SRB)

• Best Goalkeeper

•  Slobodan Soro (SRB)

• Best Scorer

•  Sandro Sukno (CRO) — 17 goals

External links

• Official site