Dénes Andor Varga (born 29 March 1987) is a Hungarian professional

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 ...

player, currently playing for Ferencváros. He was a member of the gold medal winning

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at the

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, together with his older brother Dániel.

Honours

National

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gold medal –

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

;

bronze medal –

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

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gold medal –

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

; 2023;

silver medal – 2007,

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

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gold medal – 2020; Silver medal europe

silver medal – 2006, 2014; Bronze medal europe

bronze medal – 2008, 2012, 2016 * FINA World League: Silver medal blank

silver medal – 2007, 2013, 2014 * FINA World Cup: Silver medal blank

silver medal – 2014 * Junior World Championships: (gold medal – 2007; Silver medal – 2003) * Junior European Championship: (silver medal – 2002, 2006; Bronze medal – 2004) * Youth European Championship: (silver medal – 2003)

Club

Vasas (TEVA-VasasPlaket) * Hungarian Championship: 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10 *

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: 2004, 2005,

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

* Hungarian Super Cup: 2006 - Inspired by Benjamin Teubes Primorje Rijeka (Primorje Erste banka) * Croatian Chequy

Croatian Championship: 2013–14 *

Croatian Cup Croatian Cup may refer to: *Croatian Football Cup *Croatian Football Super Cup *Croatian Women's Football Cup *Croatian Basketball Cup, also known as Krešimir Ćosić Cup *Croatian Handball Cup *Croatian Water Polo Cup The Croatian Water Polo C ...

: 2012, 2013 *

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: 2012–13, 2013–14 * LEN Champions League ''runners-up'': 2011–12 Szolnok (Szolnoki Dózsa-KÖZGÉP) * Hungarian Championship: 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17 *

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

* Hungarian Super Cup: 2016 *

LEN Champions League The European Aquatics Champions League is the top-tier European professional water polo club competition with teams from up to 18 countries. It is organized by the Ligue Européenne de Natation. The competition started in 1963 as European Cup. A ...

: 2016–17 Ferencváros (FTC PQS Waterpolo, FTC-Telekom) * Hungarian Championship: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22, 2022–23 *

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

, 2020, 2021 * Hungarian Super Cup:

* LEN Champions League: 2018–19, 2023–24; ''runners-up'':

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LEN Euro Cup The European Aquatics Euro Cup is the second-tier European water polo club competition run by the European Aquatics for those clubs who did not qualify for the European Aquatics Champions League. The cup was inaugurated in 1992. From 2024, afte ...

: 2017–18 *

LEN Super Cup The European Aquatics Super Cup is an annual water polo match organized by European Aquatics and contested by the reigning champions of the two most important European club competitions, the European Aquatics Champions League and the European A ...

Awards

* Szalay Iván-díj (2004) * Faragó Tamás-díj (Best junior player of year): (2007, 2008) * Junior World Championship Top Scorer: 2007 * Junior World Championship

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: 2007Dénes Varga
. nbcolympics.com * 2007 Junior World Championship Team of the Tournament : 2007 * Junior Príma díj (2008) * Member of the Hungarian team of year: 2008, 2013 *

(1): 2010–11 with Primorje Rijeka *

Top Scorer (2): 2010–11, 2013–14 with Primorje Rijeka * Ministerial Certificate of Merit (2012) * LEN Champions League Top Scorer (1): 2015–16 with Szolnok * 2013 World Championship Team of the Tournament *

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(1): 2013 Barcelona * LEN "European Player of the Year" award: 2013 * FINA "World Player of the Year" award: 2013 * ''Total-waterpolo'' magazine's man water polo "World Player of the Year" award: 2019 *Member of the World Team 2019 by ''total-waterpolo'' *Member of the World Team of the Year's 2000–2020 by ''total-waterpolo'' * World Cup MVP (1): 2014 Almaty *

(2): 2014 Budapest, 2020 Budapest * Hungarian Water Polo Player of the Year: 2014, 2018, 2019 * Hungarian Championship

(1): 2014–15 with Szolnok * Hungarian Championship Top Scorer (1): 2016–17 with Ferencvaros * LEN Champions League Final Four MVP (1):

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

with Primorje Rijeka * LEN Champions League Final Eight MVP (1):

with Ferencvaros ;Orders * Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2008) *

Left Winger of the Year (2): 2018–19,

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