The Men’s National Polo Team lost 11-12 to Croatia at the “Petros Kapagerov” in the premiere of the World League qualifiers and started with the “left” trying to qualify for the next phase of the tournament and against one of the leading forces in world water polo.
Ethniki did not have Thodoris Vlachos on its bench and the team was coached by his colleague Dimitris Kravaritis, with the contribution of Elias Macheiras. The mission was presented without Mourikis, Colombo and without the sick Genidounias, Giouvetsi.
The representative team was in control until the middle of the third eight minutes, despite the fact that it was bad for the player above, while it conceded many goals to the player less. Then, 7-5 became 8-7 in favor of the Croatians at the end of the third eight minutes and 9-9 9-12 1′.58 ” before the end.
The MVP of the match was Jozip Brilic.
Eight minutes: 4-3, 2-2, 1-3, 4-4
GREECE (Dimitris Kravaritis, Elias Macheiras): Zerdevas, Kalogeropoulos, Skoumpakis, Kapotsis 1, Foundoulis 4, Papanastasiou 1, Dervisis, Argyropoulos 1, Solanakis 1, Kakaris 1, Alafragkis, Vlachopoulos 2, Tzortzatos
CROATIA (Ivica Tucak): Bijac, Milakovic, Fatovic 1, Krapic, Jovic 1, Bukic 1, Vukicenic 2, Zuvela, Buric 1, Vrilic 2, Benic 2, Basic 2, Marcelic
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