2010 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup

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

Group A	Group B
Australia Iran Romania Spain	Croatia United States China Serbia

Preliminary round

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

Group A

	Team	G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1.	Spain	3	3	0	49	16	+33	6
2.	Romania	3	2	1	45	24	+21	4
3.	Australia	3	1	2	42	24	+18	2
4.	Iran	3	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	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1.	Croatia	3	3	0	33	19	+14	6
2.	Serbia	3	2	1	40	27	+13	4
3.	United States	3	1	2	26	32	−6	2
4.	China	3	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

July 31 – Oradea

China

Spain

July 30 – Oradea

Serbia

Australia

August 1 – Oradea

Serbia

July 30 – Oradea

Croatia

Iran

July 31 – Oradea

Croatia

Third place

July 30 – Oradea

United States

Romania

Spain

United States

United States

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

All times are EEST (UTC+3)

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

Semi-finals			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

FINA Water Polo World Cup

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