Spanish women’s water polo concludes the summer of dreams: gold at the U-18 World Cup

The Spanish U-18 women’s water polo team won The title of world champion in the category after defeating Greece with a score of 11-9 In the final of the event, which was held in the Chinese city of Chengdu.

The Spanish players managed to leave at the end of the first half with a goal advantage (5-4), The rent they extended after their 4-2 victory over the Greeks in the third quarter.

In this way, in the decisive quarter, they only had to focus on keeping the distance, something they managed to do despite conceding one more goal than they scored for the Greeks in this stretch. Thus, they obtained His third medal in this event After achieving another gold in 2018 in Belgrade and silver in 2016 in Auckland.

At the individual level, The most relevant players in the offensive section were Itziar Almeida with three goals and Carlota B. ermalfer With four. The latter also entered the All-Stars as well as Reyes de ermaz, who was also named the best goalkeeper. Marian Diaz was named the best coach.

After the Spaniards and Greeks, the Hungarians ended. In the fight for third and fourth place they came back 6-3 Negative against the United States national team to end up winning 14-13 thanks to a last-minute goal from Kata Hajdu.

With this title, Spanish women’s water polo concludes a wonderful summer , which, besides the absolute gold medal at the Paris Olympics and the success achieved in China, also added another World U-15 Championship in Manisa and Europe U-19 in Zagreb.