Waterpolo
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Camilleri scores five
Steve Camilleri’s scoring vein knows no respite. The Neptunes and Malta player, engaged by RN Bogliasco for the fourth consecutive year, was again much in evidence a few days ago when hitting a nap-hand for his Italian club. This five-goal...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Eight-team competition to start early in March
Competitive waterpolo for 2012 will start on March 3 with the opening match in an eight-team Winter League being between San Ġiljan, one-time winners of the competition, and Valletta. This will be followed by the Sliema-Exiles match with t...
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Maltese waterpolo acquaintances in final
Two top class players who are familiar faces to Maltese waterpolo, Vladimir Gojkovic, of Montenegro, and Milan Aleksic, of Serbia, yesterday faced each other in the European waterpolo championship final in Holland. Serbia (picture) won a thrillin...
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Friday, January 27, 2012 , by
Alex Vella
Gojkovic shines in Euro championships
Vladimir Gojkovic, Montenegro’s outstanding utility player who plays for Herceg Novi and turned out for Neptunes last summer, helping the Balluta Bay team clinch the league and cup double, has been in the limelight in the current European waterpo...
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Thursday, January 12, 2012 , by
Alex Vella
ASA make minor changes to 2012 league format
The waterpolo league format, which last season incorporated the play-off system for both Division One and Division Two, will be retained for the 2012 summer championships. However, there will be some important changes which are aimed at re...
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
San Ġiljan boys claim Under-15 title
San Ġiljan ASC have won the Under-15 Winter League after topping a round-robin tournament that also involved Sirens and Sliema. The winter league success was a morale-booster for the Saints’ junior sector that had been chasing an honour at...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Decision on league format soon
The waterpolo league format for next year is still under the ASA’s microscope. About two weeks ago the council of the association was due to start discussing a possible revision of the league system which in summer had the first four-place...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011 , by
Alex Vella
ASA to decide on 2012 format
The Council of the Aquatic Sports Association (ASA) will be meeting tomorrow to discuss next year’s BOV waterpolo league format, which was revamped in 2011. Last summer nine teams made up the list of contestants. These were seeded and spli...
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Pisani stays with Sirens
Dorian Pisani has been confirmed as coach within the Sirens youth section for the next two years. The St Paul’s Bay club, who have appointed Joseph Caruana Dingli as senior team coach, said that Pisani is taking over from Julian Xuereb who...
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
Camilleri leads Serie A1 scorers’ list
After the last round of matches played in Italy’s Serie A1 last week, the race for the top scorer is hotting up, with eight goals separating the first 12 scorers in the ranking list which comprises over 130 names. This time, Steve Camiller...
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Monday, November 21, 2011 , by
Alex Vella
Camilleri heads Serie A scorers’ list
Steve Camilleri is still churning out the goals for RN Bogliasco. His latest massive contribution was that of Saturday when he helped himself to a poker as his side toppled CC Ortigia 19-15 to regain sixth position in the 12-team table on...
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
Sliema set sights on renowned Croats
It is understood that Sliema ASC are busy seeking the services of two foreigners of fame who they hope will be able to put their team back on a winning trail next season as far as the main local honours are concerned. Rumours are rife that...
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Camilleri joint second in Serie A scorers’ list
Steve Camilleri, the new recipient of the 2011 waterpolo player of the year award, has continued where he left off in Malta last season. Playing in his fourth consecutive year for RN Bogliasco, the Serie A1 side currently lying seventh in...
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011 , by
Alex Vella
Neptunes engage top Serbian player Ciric
The 2011 waterpolo season came to an end less than eight weeks ago but some clubs are already engaged in acquiring the services of new players and coaches. Champions Neptunes have lately been busy strengthening their side for the 2012 camp...
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Camilleri player of the year
Neptunes player Steve Camilleri is the winner of the 2011 Player of the Year award for Division One teams, the Aquatic Sports Association announced during its council meeting last night. The Malta international player collected the highest...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Sliema juniors end season on a high
The official 2011 waterpolo season for juniors came to a close last week with the KO finals for U-14 and U-16 categories at the National Pool, Tal-Qroqq. Five teams – Exiles, Neptunes, Otters, Sirens and Sliema – took part in the U-16 comp...
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Neptunes land striker Mercieca from Sirens
Neptunes Emirates, winners of the BOV National League and Cup double this year, have made an important acquisition for their team when they signed Clint Mercieca from Sirens Ritter Sport. This was announced by Neptunes WPSC president, Matt...
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Friday, October 14, 2011
Fruitful season for Otters ASC
Otters ASC’s participation in this year’s ASA national competitions was described as a very fruitful one by president Enzo Dimech at the club’s annual general meeting recently. Otters celebrated their 40th anniversary in the summer and the...
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Thursday, October 13, 2011 , by
Alex Vella, National Pool
Malta no match for casual Germany
Malta 6Germany 15(1-4, 1-4, 2-3, 2-4) When Malta faced Germany in the second leg of the European Championship preliminary round yesterday, the gap in class was again evident as the visitors, in apparently...
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Saturday, October 8, 2011
Sirens practise in Italy
A group of junior waterpolo players from Sirens ASC, along with 17 young swimmers from the same St Paul’s Bay club, recently attended a five-day training camp in Recco, Italy. Despite a modest population, Recco won the coveted Italian wate...
