World Championships: Alvaro Granados Named MVP, with Two Greek All-Stars

Alvaro Granados of champion Spain was named the MVP of the 2025 World Aquatics Championships males’s water polo match upon its conclusion on Wednesday.

Granados is the one Spanish participant on the workforce, voted by media. Bronze medalist Greece is the one workforce with two alternatives, in high goalie Panagiotis Tzortzatos and Stylianos Argyropoulos.

The workforce contains the match’s to scorer, Reuel D’Souza of Canada, regardless of his workforce ending eleventh. Ninth-place Japan received Yusuke Inaba on there, whereas the workforce additionally contains Hungary’s Krisztian Manhercz and Dusan Mandic of Serbia.

Granados scored 21 targets on the match to go along with 11 assists. It’s his third time on the all-star workforce at a World Championships, doing so in 2022 and 2024. He scored 16 targets/14 assists in Doha, simply 13 on the World Championships in Fukuoka in 2023 and 22 in Budapest. He was additionally on the all-star workforce on the Paris Olympics in 2024

Panagiotis Tzortzatos; Photograph Courtesy: Singapore 2025/World Aquatics

4 members of that All-Star workforce are represented a summer time later – Granados, Mandic, Inaba and Manhercz, with the latter two having been on the All-Star workforce on the Tokyo and Paris Olympics.

Mandic returns to the all-tournament workforce for the primary time since 2019, although he was the main scorer and MVP of the Paris Olympics in 2024. Mandic scored 24 aim and 6 assists on the match for Serbia, which completed fourth.

Tzortzatos and Argyropoulos led Greece to an emphatic bronze medal, a day after its girls’s workforce received gold. Tzortzatos is the second Greek goalie to win this award within the final 4 tournaments, becoming a member of Emmanouli Zerdevas in 2022. Argyropoulos, who was on the all-tournament workforce on the Tokyo Olympics, scored 14 targets to go along with eight assists in Singapore.

Manhercz is on the all-star workforce of a 3rd match within the final 5 summers, together with the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and 2023 Worlds. He scored 14 targets and 17 assists to energy Hungary’s run to silver.

D’Souza was the highest scorer of the match regardless of Canada bowing out within the semifinals. He fired house 27 targets and 7 assists in his first World Championships.

Inaba continued his stellar performances for the enticing model of play that the Japanese play. He scored 24 targets and added 10 assists.

Media All-Star Staff

Panagiotis Tzortzatos, Greece (GK)
Reuel D’Souza, Canada
Alvaro Granados, Spain (MVP)
Yusuke Inaba, Japan
Dusan Mandic, Serbia
Krisztian Manhercz, Hungary
Stylianos Argyropoulos, Greece