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Associazione Nuotatori Brescia (Swimmers Association Brescia) is an Italian sports club based in
Brescia Brescia (, ; ; or ; ) is a city and (municipality) in the region of Lombardy, in Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Lake Garda, Garda and Lake Iseo, Iseo. With a population of 199,949, it is the se ...
, that is interested exclusively in water sports like swimming and
water polo Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the water polo ball, ball into the oppo ...
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History

The club founded in 1973 under the name ''"AN Brescia"'' and in 1995 took the name ''"Leonessa Nuoto Pallanuoto"''. In 2007 the name changed again becoming ''"Brixia Leonessa Nuoto"''. Finally in 2011, following a corporate crisis, summarizes the old name of ''"AN Brescia"''. In the swimming area now experienced its greatest splendor between the eighties and the nineties thanks to the extraordinary victories of Giorgio Lamberti, who won the title in the 100, 200 and 400m freestyle at the Italian and European championships. To remember the world title in Perth and conquered the world record in Berlin in the 200 with a time of 1 min. 46 sec. and 69, remained unbeaten for ten years. In the water polo department, the successes of the club have a recent history, came following the entry of the group System as the main sponsor. In 2001, arrives for the first time in its history in LEN Cup final, but was defeated by the Croatian Mladost. A trophy that is put on the bulletin board in later because in five years, between 2002 and 2006, Systema Leonessa manages to win three LEN Cups (beating in the final Pro Recco and Florentia in two derby all Italians and the Russians of
Sintez Kazan Sintez is a Russian professional water polo club from Kazan, Russia. The club was formed in 1974 and plays in Russia's highest division since 1993. Former Russian centar forward Andrey Belofastov is head coach. Accomplishments * Russian Wat ...
). Brescia gets its first Italian champions title in 2003, beating Pro Recco. Since 2006 the team, alongside the usual sponsor "Systema", had a new sponsor, "Pompea". Since 2008, the team is called Brixia Leonessa Brescia or Pompea Brixia Leonessa. In 2008 reaches for the second time the championship final, but lost against Pro Recco. In 2009, the team returns to be sponsored by "Systema". In 2011 for the first time, Brescia reached the Italian Cup final, but lost to the defending champions of the Pro Recco; takes his revenge in 2012, winning the trophy. In the same year it received the third championship final, again versus the "Ligurians", but was defeated.


Honours


Domestic competitions

* Serie A1 ** Winners (2): 2002–03, 2020–21 *
Coppa Italia Coppa Italia () is the annual domestic cup of Italian football. The knockout competition was organized by the DDS and the Lega Calcio until the 2009–10 season and by Lega Serie A ever since. Juventus is the competition's most successf ...
** Winners (2): 2011–12, 2023–24


European competitions

* LEN Euro Cup ** Winners (4): 2001–02, 2002–03, 2005–06, 2015–16 ** ''Runners-up (1)'': 2000–01


Recent seasons

: Cancelled due to the
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Famous players

* Goran Volarević * Francesco Di Fulvio * Aleksandar Ćirić * Guillermo Molina *
Sava Ranđelović Sava Ranđelović ( sr-cyr, Сава Ранђеловић; born 17 July 1993) is a Serbian water polo player for VasasPlaket and the Serbia men's national water polo team. Representing Serbia, he won European Championship gold medals in 2014, ...
* Nemanja Ubović *
Maro Joković Maro Joković (born 1 October 1987) is a Croatian water polo player. He is left-handed and plays in the right wing position. He competed at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics and won a gold medal in 2012 and a silver in 2016. He held the world title ...
* Angelos Vlachopoulos


Famous coaches

* Mirko Blažević


External links


Official website

L'articolo della Gazzetta sulla vittoria dello scudetto


Notes

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