A.S.D. Pro Recco (Official name: Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Pro Recco) is an Italian

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club from

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. It currently plays in Serie A1. Pro Recco is the most successful club in men's water polo. In men's domestic water polo, the club has won a record 50 trophies: a record 34 Serie A1 titles, a record 16

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. In men's LEN European competitions, Pro Recco have won a record 18 trophies:

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titles, a record 8

LEN Super Cup The LEN Super Cup is an annual water polo match organized by LEN and contested by the reigning champions of the two European club competitions, the LEN Champions League and the LEN Euro Cup. From 1976 to 2002, the LEN Super Cup was contested bet ...

s. The club has also won 1

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title. In women's water polo, the

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won 1 women's Serie A1 titles, 1

LEN Euro League Women The LEN Champions League Women, formerly known as LEN European Cup (from 1987 to 1999), LEN Champions Cup (from 1999 to 2013) and LEN Euroleague Women (2014 to 2022), is the premier competition for women's water polo clubs of Europe and takes plac ...

title, 1 Women's LEN Super Cup, making Pro Recco the first sports club in history to have been crowned European Champions with both its men's and women's teams.

History

Pro Recco was founded in 1913 as Rari Nantes Enotria. It has played in the A1 league, the Italian top division, since 1935. The club is owned by Genovese businessman Gabriele Volpi, who also owns football club Spezia, competing in

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Copp ...

, the first tier of Italian football leagues. It has won a total of 33 national titles, the first in 1959 and the latest in 2022; and the

in 1974, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022. They have won the

in 1964, 1983, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2021 and 2022; the

in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2021 and 2022. Pro Recco has had a

since the 2011–12 season.

Honours

Domestic competitions

Italian League : Gold medal blank

Champions (34): 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1984, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,

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, 2011,

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment ...

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

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, 2016,

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

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, 2022 *

Winners (16): 1974, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022

European competitions

LEN competitions

(Champions Cup) :Winners (10):

1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...

, 1984, 2003,

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ...

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ...

2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October 2021 coup in Sudan; Crowd shortly after t ...

2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretariat; The global monkeyp ...

:Winners (8): 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2021, 2022

Other competitions

:Winners (1): 2012

Current team

First team

Head coach: Sandro Sukno Players: *

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* Michaël Bodegas * Gonzalo Echenique * Maurizio Felugo * Pietro Figlioli * Deni Fiorentini * Goran Fiorentini *

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* Marco D'Altrui *

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* Francesco Di Fulvio * Francesco Ferrari *

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* Andrea Fondelli *

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* Alberto Ghibellini *

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* Luca Giustolisi *

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* Mario Majoni *

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* Eraldo Pizzo *

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* Christian Presciutti *

* Elisa Queirolo *

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* Roldano Simeoni * Leonardo Sottani *

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Foreign players

* Joe Kayes *

* Felipe Perrone *

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* Sandro Sukno * Guillermo Molina *

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* Giorgi Mshvenieradze *

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* György Horkai *

* Tamás Kásás * Norbert Madaras * Tamás Märcz * István Szívós *

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* Mlađan Janović * Predrag Jokić * Mirko Vičević * Boris Zloković * Dušan Damjanović * Filip Filipović * Danilo Ikodinović * Dušan Mandić * Slobodan Nikić * Duško Pijetlović * Andrija Prlainović * Nikola Rađen *

Dejan Savić Dejan Savić ( sr-cyr, Дејан Савић; born 24 April 1975) is a Serbian professional water polo coach and former player. He currently serves as head coach of the Serbia men's national water polo team and Crvena zvezda. During his playing ...

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* Vladimir Vujasinović * Ben Hallock

Famous coaches

* Ratko Rudić * Giuseppe Porzio * Igor Milanović

References

External links

* {{Regional Water Polo League LEN Euroleague clubs Water polo clubs in Liguria Water polo clubs in Italy Sport in Liguria