Alvaro Granados, Foteini Tricha Named World Aquatics Water Polo Gamers of the Yr
Spain’s Alvaro Granados and Foteini Tricha of Greece have been named World Aquatics’ Water Polo Gamers of the Yr this week.
Each gamers led their groups to gold medals on the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, Greece getting again to the ladies’s summit for the primary time since 2011.
Granados, 27, was named probably the most useful participant by media in Singapore. He scored 21 objectives within the event, together with 5 in a 15-13 win over Hungary within the closing, Spain’s first world title since 2022.
Spain gained the Division I World Aquatics Males’s Water Polo World Cup event in January in Romania, then claimed the ultimate in April in Montenegro. Granados modified golf equipment this 12 months, shifting from his second stint at CN Athletic-Barceloneta to Italian giants Professional Recco.
Tricha wasn’t named MVP in Singapore, however she was on the all-tournament staff as a part of the Greek championship. Greece overcame a loss to Hungary within the first group-stage sport, then avenged the loss within the closing. Tricha scored 25 objectives to energy the Greek staff, making her the high-scorer within the girls’s event.
“We performed actually good on this event,” Tricha mentioned in Singapore. “We deserved this gold. The one factor that I can say is that we have now to proceed exhibiting this commonplace. There are a lot of groups which are actually good. The championships was actually aggressive.”
Tricha is simply 20 years previous. She helped Greece’s Below-20 staff in a bronze medal on the World Aquatics U20 Championships in Brazil. The Greek senior staff gained the Girls’s World Cup closing in Chengdu, China, forward of Worlds.
