A… classic European battle against Italywill substantially judge the course of national pole at the Singapore World Championship.
Tomorrow (20.07.2025, 11:00, Newsit.gr, ERT1) quarter-finals brings the Men’s National Pole faced with Italy by Sandro Campaign, with the winner entering the four and having two opportunities to claim a medal and the loser.
The two teams’ racing image in their games so far, as well as the two friendly preparation of the previous month (where the National lost 16-10 to Larissa and 16-9 in Trapani) are a favorite of their “Adjouri”, but this is not very important in such a critical match.
All the more so when the two specific groups have “built” in recent years the tradition of large “duels”.
The main issue for the Men’s National Pole is to improve its performance, mainly in the offensive part, where it lagged in the defeats of the first phase by Montenegro and Croatia (both with a score of 10-9) and even had a problem with the cross-match with Brazil (17-5).
Italy traveled to Singapore, determined to erase from the memory of the team’s friends, the exclusion of the Hungary Olympic Games in the Hungary Games, in fact, the “Setebello” were punished by the International Federation, because of the way in the federation, because final. Greece, however, will try to achieve itself and deprive it of the opportunity to claim a medal.
Sandro’s Campaign team qualified directly to the quarter-finals, as the first of the first group, thanks to its win over Serbia with a 17-16 penalty shoot-out (in a match with three goals, two and a half minutes before the end). In its other games, it did not face problems against Romania (17-5) and South Africa (28-4).
The 13th match of Greece and Italy in a world championship
This is the second consecutive year that the two teams will face the quarter -finals of the World Championship. Last year in Doha, in an episode of game, Ethniki withstood playing a four-minute player with less (A Argyropoulos was eliminated for violence in the second period) and led 10-8 two and a half minutes before the end, but received a 3-0 run and lost 11-10, with 11-10.
A few months later, the two teams also met at the Olympics, in the group stage, with the “blue-white” 9-8.
Tomorrow (20.07.2025) will be the 13th Greece and Italian clash in the World Championships and the sixth time they cross their swords at a crucial match. The men’s national pole counts a total of four wins and eight defeats, while in significant knockout matches the… delivery is slightly in favor of neighbors, with three wins over two.
The Greek team prevailed in the Montreal quarter-finals in 2005 (13-9), and in the “small” Kazan final in 2015 (11-9 in penalties), in both cases the bronze medal. The “Stebello” won the 2019 quarter-finals in Guangzu (7-6), the 2022 semifinals in Budapest (11-10) and the last year’s quarter-finals in Doha (also 11-10).
It is noted that Italy is Polynesian in the Men’s World Championships (along with Hungary) with four titles, last of which in 2019. She has participated in all 21 previous events and has four silver and a bronze medal in her collection, and from 2011 onwards, only twice she was out of the semifinals.
Since the eight presumption of stronger teams went to the octave, all the quarter -finals are a derby. Spain is just a pure favorite against Montenegro, the couple who intersects in the semifinals with that of the National. The other two games are a repetition of the semifinals of Paris, with Croatia’s title holder facing Hungary and the “golden” Olympian Serbia with the US.
The Program of the quarterfinals:
11:00 Italy – Greece (Newsit.gr, ERT1)
12:35 Spain – Montenegro
14:10 US – Serbia
15:45 Croatia – Hungary