Hoy será el dia en que , a las 10,00h saldremos del hotel para visitar el DAF Museum y viviremos las semifinales femeninas HUN-GRE e ITA-RUS además de nuestro partido ante Holanda que nos dará acceso a la 5a plaza de este europeo de Eindhoven 2012.
http://www.dafmuseum.nl/EN/Pages/Museum_homepage.aspx
Yo tendré la oportunidad de volver a pitar , en esta ocasión , en la semifinal ITA-RUS , nuevamente con el polaco Koryzna con el que ayer pité el 1/4 de final GRE-MNE.
EUROPEOS / Italia, finalista, tumba a Rusia
http://www.rfen.es/publicacion/noticias.asp?n=7592
http://www.sportresult.com/sports/waterpolo/ECH2012/pdf/W17.pdf
Mi partido :
http://www.sportresult.com/sports/waterpolo/ECH2012/pdf/W18.pdf
Waterpolo World :
Italy goes for gold - rebirth of the setterosa?
 | | | Thursday 26 January 2012, 23:52 | | | Wolfgang Philipps | | | 186 views |
The exciting women´s semi-final day of the 2012 European Waterpolo Championships here at Eindhoven, Netherlands was crowned by an upset, when three-time European champion Russia was stopped on the way to the unprecedented fourth title in row by Italy. The setterosa as the team is often called at home took a 13-12 victory in a real nailbiter and made it to the final game for the first time since 2006. Italy will now play Greece in the final game to be held on Saturday afternoon. It will be the first clash between both nations in a gold medal game in the history of women’s waterpolo.Since these glory days, Italy had played only one final game since the silver medal at the 2006 European Championships at Belgrade, Serbia. Here the setterosa lost to Team USA in the 2011 gold medal game of the FINA World League, but this competition is ranking lower in international prestige in the eyes of the many experts. But the new coach Fabio Conti, two-time LEN Trophy winner with Roma Pallanuoto, is coming from Rome like Formiconi and he got one precious piece of the former setterosa back. Scoring sensation Tania di Mario, MVP of the 2004 Olympic tournament, is back in the team after an international break of two and a half years and she has played a great tournament so far.
It was a pretty fast game full of action, sometimes close to handball, and with lots of goals, but the Italians won the game by defence actions. Italian head coach Fabio Conti`s choices were finally more successful than the Russian moves. Furthermore Italian goalkeeper Elena Gigli, the other remaining 2004 Olympic hero, edged out her Russian counterpart Maria Kovtunovskaya clearly. At the other side of the pool Russian head coach Aleksandar Kabanov had no idea how to stop Italy*s five-time scorer Tania di Mario today; meanwhile he lost his key player Sofya Konukh pretty early when she was already fouled out in the third period.
Italy already survived the 2000-spectator –clash against the home team in the quarter-finals, but in the first half, observers expected another victory of the Russian team which had already beaten Italy in the bronze medal game of the 2011 FINA World Championships at Shanghai, China. The reigning European champion scored their goals easier; Italy had to work much harder to keep the match levelled. But the game was tight all over the match; all leads were levelled almost immediately. Eight goals were score in the final period. Here Russia led only once when Olga Belyaeva brought the score the 10-9. After this action Italy was leading three times, and Simona Abbate finally scored the winning goals 55 seconds before the end in a man-up situation.
Quarter-finals women’s competition
Italy vs. Russia 13-12 (2-2, 4-4, 3-2, 4-4)
Italy: Gigli – Abbate 1, Casanova, Aiello 1, Queirolo, Lapi, Di Mario 5, Bianconi 2/2, Emmolo 1, Rambaldi, Guidasci, Cotti 1, Frassinetti 2, Gorlero.
Head coach: Conti.
Russia: Kovtunovskaya – Fedotova 3, Prokofyeva 2, Konukh, Kurochkina, Belova, Lisunova 2/1, Khokhriakova, Tankeeva, Beliaeva 4, Ivanova 1, Antonova, Karnaukh. Head coach: Kabanov
Man-up : Italy 7/11 + 2/2, Russia 4/6 + 1/1
Referees: Koryzna (POL)/Teixido (ESP).
Spectators: 800
Waterpolodevelopment world :
Posterivo l’ha vista così
Analizziamo Italia-Russia con l’aiuto del nostro opinionista Stefano Posterivo.
Setterosa in finale con grandissimo merito…
Sì, perchè ha battuto una delle squadre più forti al mondo, almeno come potenziale. Che poi questo potenziale non venga sempre sfruttato sul piano del gioco è un altro discorso.
Io ho contato almeno cinque gol regalati dalle azzurre alle nostre avversarie…
E questo dà ancora più valore ad una vittoria che già di per sè è straordinaria. Mentre i 13 gol azzurri sono quasi tutti frutto del gioco, buona parte di quelli della Russia sono stati determinati da errori in fase difensiva: abbiamo preso addirittura qualche contropiede dopo superiorità numerica non sfruttata. Il tutto è stato compensato da una fase offensiva buonissima, che conferma i grandi progressi già visti contro l’Olanda.
Quando si parla di attacco, non si può non sottolineare la prova di Tania Di Mario…
Oggi è stata stratosferica. Gol e assist, partita da incorniciare. Giocatrice di assoluto valore mondiale, ma certo non lo scopriamo adesso. Stasera mi è piaciuta molto anche Cotti.
E Gigli, a dispetto degli 12 gol presi, anche stavolta ha fatto parate importanti. Bene anche i due centri…
Casanova e Frassinetti hanno dato un contributo importantissimo, e non era facile contro una squadra che ti fa spendere tante energie perchè gioca sempre a pressing.
L’arbitraggio?
Alcune decisioni non mi hanno convinto, come il rigore concesso alla Russia per un fallo di Di Mario che, proprio a valor essere generosi, poteva essere punito con la superiorità numerica.
E adesso ci aspetta in finale la Grecia. Abbiamo già la medaglia d’argento al collo, comunque vada il Setterosa avrà disputato un Europeo magnifico. Ma non è proprio il caso di accontentarsi…
Se continua a giocare con l’intensità, con la determinazione mostrata contro Olanda e Russia, il Setterosa può dare filo da torcere anche alle campionesse del mondo. Ci aspetta in ogni caso un compito difficilissimo: la Grecia – l’ho già detto in altre occasioni – è una squadra molto concreta, molto cinica, che sbaglia pochissimo, anche se nella semifinale contro l’Ungheria sul piano difensivo è stata tutt’altro che perfetta.
Mario Corcione
Waterpolo World :
Italy goes for gold - rebirth of the setterosa?
| | | Thursday 26 January 2012, 23:52 | | | Wolfgang Philipps | | | 192 views |
The exciting women´s semi-final day of the 2012 European Waterpolo Championships here at Eindhoven, Netherlands was crowned by an upset, when three-time European champion Russia was stopped on the way to the unprecedented fourth title in row by Italy. The setterosa as the team is often called at home took a 13-12 victory in a real nailbiter and made it to the final game for the first time since 2006. Italy will now play Greece in the final game to be held on Saturday afternoon. It will be the first clash between both nations in a gold medal game in the history of women’s waterpolo.
Sometimes memories to the glorious setterosa of the past were coming tonight. The famous Italian women´s team of the past had clinched seven major titles between 1995 and 2004, highlighted by the gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. But there is not much left from the heydays of Italian women´s waterpolo, and the current head coach Fabio Conti is already the fourth successor of the highly successful Pierluigi Formiconi who had retired after the 2004 triumph.
Since these glory days, Italy had played only one final game since the silver medal at the 2006 European Championships at Belgrade, Serbia. Here the setterosa lost to Team USA in the 2011 gold medal game of the FINA World League, but this competition is ranking lower in international prestige in the eyes of the many experts. But the new coach Fabio Conti, two-time LEN Trophy winner with Roma Pallanuoto, is coming from Rome like Formiconi and he got one precious piece of the former setterosa back. Scoring sensation Tania di Mario, MVP of the 2004 Olympic tournament, is back in the team after an international break of two and a half years and she has played a great tournament so far.
It was a pretty fast game full of action, sometimes close to handball, and with lots of goals, but the Italians won the game by defence actions. Italian head coach Fabio Conti`s choices were finally more successful than the Russian moves. Furthermore Italian goalkeeper Elena Gigli, the other remaining 2004 Olympic hero, edged out her Russian counterpart Maria Kovtunovskaya clearly. At the other side of the pool Russian head coach Aleksandar Kabanov had no idea how to stop Italy*s five-time scorer Tania di Mario today; meanwhile he lost his key player Sofya Konukh pretty early when she was already fouled out in the third period.
Italy already survived the 2000-spectator –clash against the home team in the quarter-finals, but in the first half, observers expected another victory of the Russian team which had already beaten Italy in the bronze medal game of the 2011 FINA World Championships at Shanghai, China. The reigning European champion scored their goals easier; Italy had to work much harder to keep the match levelled. But the game was tight all over the match; all leads were levelled almost immediately. Eight goals were score in the final period. Here Russia led only once when Olga Belyaeva brought the score the 10-9. After this action Italy was leading three times, and Simona Abbate finally scored the winning goals 55 seconds before the end in a man-up situation.
Quarter-finals women’s competition
Italy vs. Russia 13-12 (2-2, 4-4, 3-2, 4-4)
Italy: Gigli – Abbate 1, Casanova, Aiello 1, Queirolo, Lapi, Di Mario 5, Bianconi 2/2, Emmolo 1, Rambaldi, Guidasci, Cotti 1, Frassinetti 2, Gorlero.
Head coach: Conti.
Russia: Kovtunovskaya – Fedotova 3, Prokofyeva 2, Konukh, Kurochkina, Belova, Lisunova 2/1, Khokhriakova, Tankeeva, Beliaeva 4, Ivanova 1, Antonova, Karnaukh. Head coach: Kabanov
Man-up : Italy 7/11 + 2/2, Russia 4/6 + 1/1
Referees: Koryzna (POL)/Teixido (ESP).
Spectators: 800
EUROPEOS / Grecia, primer finalista en Eindhoven
http://www.rfen.es/publicacion/noticias.asp?n=7591
Durante la noche precedente , han instalado una nueva grada en la piscina. mañana tenemos las semis masculinas !!
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