2006 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup

The 13th edition of the FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup was held in the Alfréd Hajós Swimming Pool on Margitsziget (Margaret Island) in Budapest, Hungary from June 13 to June 18, 2006.

Teams

GROUP A	GROUP B
Greece Hungary Italy Romania	Croatia Russia Serbia and Montenegro Spain

Squads

Croatia

• Goran Volarević
• Damir Burić
• Boris Pavlović
• Srđan Antonijević
• Tiho Vranješ

• Ratko Štritof (captain)
• Andrija Komadina
• Teo Đogaš
• Andro Bušlje
• Miksa Dobud

• Aljosa Kunac
• Miho Bošković
• Miko Kačič

Head Coach:

• Ratko Rudić

Greece

• Filippos Karambetsos
• Anastasios Schizas
• Dimitros Mazis
• Konstantinos Kokkinakis
• Christos Afroudakis

• Argvrios Theodoropoulos
• Nikitas Kochilas
• Georgios Ntoskas
• Georgios Afroudakis (captain)
• Andreas Miralis

• Konstantinos Dimou
• Manolis Mylonakis
• Georgios Reppas

Head Coach:

• Alessandro Campagna

Hungary

• Zoltán Szécsi
• Dániel Varga
• Norbert Madaras
• Ádám Steinmetz
• Tamás Kásás (captain)

• Márton Szivós
• Gergely Kiss
• Csaba Kiss
• Rajmund Fodor
• Péter Biros

• Gábor Kiss
• Tamás Molnár
• Gábor Jászberényi

Head Coach:

• Dénes Kemény

Italy

• Stefano Tempesti
• Massimo Giacoppo
• Valerio Rizzo
• Fabrizio Buonocore
• Andrea Scotti Galletta

• Maurizio Felugo
• Federico Mistrangelo
• Fabio Bencivenga
• Arnaldo Deserti
• Alessandro Calcaterra (captain)

• Luigi Di Costanzo
• Goran Fiorentini
• Fabio Violetti

Head Coach:

• Paolo Malara

Romania

• Berttini Nenciu
• Cosmin Radu
• Florin Musat
• Florin Bonca
• Andrei Iosep

• Andrei Busila
• Gheorghe Dunca
• Ramiro Georgescu
• Alexandru Ghiban
• George Georgescu

• Alexandru Matei Guiman
• Kalman Kadar
• Robert Dinu

Head Coach:

• Vlad Hagiu

Russia

• Igor Shaltanov
• Yuri Yatsev
• Pavel Khalturin
• Roman Dokuchaev
• Roman Balashov

• Anton Korotaev
• Revaz Chomahidze (captain)
• Dmitri Stratan
• Aleksey Agarkov
• Marat Zakirov

• Viktor Vishnyakov
• Andrei Reketchinski
• Yegor Rastorguev

Head Coach:

• Aleksandr Kabanov

Serbia and Montenegro

• Denis Šefik
• Živko Gocić
• Nikola Janović
• Filip Filipović
• Dejan Savić (captain)
• Danilo Ikodinović

• Slobodan Nikić
• Vladimir Gojković
• Aleksandar Ćirić
• Aleksandar Šapić
• Duško Pijetlović
• Predrag Jokić

• Zdravko Radić

Head Coaches:

• Nenad Manojlović
• Petar Porobić
• Nebojša Novoselac

Spain

• Inaki Aguilar
• Mario García
• David Martin
• Ricardo Perrone
• Guillermo Molina

• Sergi Mora
• Oscar Rey
• José Rodríguez
• Xavier Vallès
• Felipe Perrone

• Iván Pérez (captain)
• Xavier García
• Angel Andreo

Head Coach:

• Rafael Aguilar

Preliminary round

• Tuesday 2005-06-13

Croatia	12 – 9	Russia	4-3 • 1-3 • 4-2 • 3-1
Greece	7 – 8	Romania	2-3 • 2-1 • 1-1 • 2-3
Italy	6 – 10	Hungary	2-2 • 1-2 • 1-3 • 2-3
Serbia and Montenegro	7 – 6	Spain	2-4 • 2-0 • 2-2 • 1-0

• Wednesday 2005-06-14

Croatia	8 – 8	Spain	2-3 • 2-1 • 3-2 • 1-2
Serbia and Montenegro	13 – 7	Russia	3-1 • 4-4 • 2-0 • 4-2
Greece	4 – 14	Hungary	4-4 • 2-3 • 0-4 • 1-3
Italy	7 – 5	Romania	1-1 • 2-1 • 1-1 • 3-2

• Thursday 2005-06-15

Russia	6 – 10	Spain	1-3 • 2-2 • 1-2 • 2-3
Greece	5 – 7	Italy	1-1 • 3-1 • 1-4 • 0-1
Romania	6 – 14	Hungary	4-5 • 1-3 • 0-3 • 1-3
Croatia	8 – 9	Serbia and Montenegro	1-3 • 2-0 • 2-4 • 3-2

Standings

GROUP A	Pts	P	W	T	L	PF	PA
Hungary	6	3	3	0	0	38	19
Italy	4	3	2	0	1	20	20
Romania	2	3	1	0	2	19	28
Greece	0	3	0	0	3	19	29

GROUP B	Pts	P	W	T	L	PF	PA
Serbia and Montenegro	6	3	3	0	0	29	21
Croatia	3	3	1	1	1	28	26
Spain	3	3	1	1	1	24	21
Russia	0	3	0	0	3	22	35

• Olympic champions Hungary and reigning world champion Serbia & Montenegro won their groups after three wins in a row and went straight to the semifinals on Saturday.

Quarter finals

• Friday 2005-06-16
  • First Quarter Final (17:30h)

Romania	7 – 10	Croatia	2-2 • 2-2 • 3-4 • 0-2

• • Second Quarter Final (19:00h)

Italy	3 – 9	Spain	0-1 • 0-4 • 3-1 • 0-3

Semi finals

• Saturday 2005-06-17
  • First Semi Final (17:30h)

Hungary	10 – 6	Croatia	2-1 • 4-1 • 2-3 • 2-1

• • Second Semi Final (19:00h)

Serbia and Montenegro	13 – 8	Spain	5-2 • 3-2 • 3-2 • 2-2

Finals

• Friday 2005-06-16
  • 7th/8th Place Match (15:00h)

Greece	10 – 6	Russia	2-2 • 3-2 • 3-2 • 2-0

• Saturday 2005-06-17
  • 5th/6th Place Match (15:00h)

Romania	4 – 7	Italy	2-0 • 1-4 • 1-1 • 0-2

• Sunday 2005-06-18
  • Bronze Medal Match (15:30h)

Croatia	10 – 13	Spain	2-3 • 2-3 • 2-5 • 4-2

• • Gold Medal Match (17:30h)

Hungary	9 – 10	Serbia and Montenegro	1-3 • 2-2 • 2-1 • 3-2 • 1-1 • 0-1

1.america 2.greece 3.finland

Top scorers

RANK	2006 FINA MEN'S WATER POLO WORLD CUP	GOALS
1.	Aleksandar Šapić (SCG)	17
2.	Tamás Kásás (HUN)	13
	Felipe Perrone (ESP)
	Xavier García (ESP)
5.	Miho Bošković (CRO)	12
6.	Andrei Iosep (ROM)	11
7.	Péter Biros (HUN)	10
8.	Teo Đogaš (CRO)	9
9.	Gergely Kiss (HUN)	8
	Nikola Janović (SCG)

References

• FINA