Tuesday, August 16, 2016

1970 The Champions of Orvosegyetem SC

The team of Orvosegyetem Sports Club, Budapest Champions of Hungary in 1970. Among the players Istvan Szivos Jr and Istvan Szivos Sr as Technical Director.

Monday, August 15, 2016

1970: The silver team of India

The National team of India silver medalist at  1970 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.
India lost in the final against Japan with 4-2 Ranking Japan, India, Indonesia
The Indian team: Ashok Biswas, Tarun Goswami, Samir Kapadia, Bharat Merchant, Piyush Mitra, Abdul Mutlib, Pattabi Raman, Chandram Rana, Avinash Sarang, Deep Narayan Singh, Umad Singh
Source: courtesy of Saibal Kumar Shaw

Sunday, August 14, 2016

The magnificent 1 + 12

Baron Pierre De Coubertin, father of modern Olympic Games, was saying that “The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part”. Believing or not this famous quote we go back to see the Water Polo's “Magnificent 1 + 11” players who did, in fact, participate most times at the Olympics:
6 participations
Manuel Estiarte, Spain: 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000
5 participations
Paul Radmilovic, Great Britain: 1908, 1912,1920, 1924, 1928 Dezso Gyarmati, Hungary: 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964 Gianni De Magistris, Italy: 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984 George Mavrotas, Greece : 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 Jordi Sans, Spain : 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 Salvador Gomez, Spain : 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 Jesus Rolan, Spain: 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004. Tibor Benedek, Hungary 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008. Tamas Kasas, Hungary 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, Giorgos Afroudakis (Greece) 1996, 2000,2004, 2008, 2012, Tony Azevedo (USA) 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and Stefano Tempesti ( Italy): 2000-2004-2008-2012-2016