Nice Britain’s U20s gear up for the Subsequent Generations Cup

Nice Britain’s U20 squads are in Barcelona for the following three days as they participate within the second annual Subsequent Generations Cup in Barcelona.

Hosted by Barcelona Worldwide Water Polo Academy (BIWPA) and Spanish membership aspect Membership Natació Sabadell, the competitors is welcoming younger groups from ten completely different international locations to compete from Friday 20 to Sunday 22 September.

They’ll be a contest for each the boys’s and girls’s groups with Nice Britain entered in each following the U19 males’s sides efforts on the occasion 12 months in the past. Every of the groups accomplished their remaining preparations in Coventry final weekend forward of travelling to Spain the place they’re set to achieve priceless expertise in opposition to prime membership and nationwide sides from throughout the globe.

The boys’s occasion shall be divided into 4 teams and the ladies’s into two which shall be competed on Friday and Saturday morning. Britain’s males have been drawn in Group D alongside CN Barcelona and American aspect Brunswick Water Polo Membership with the winner heading straight into the quarter finals and the opposite two battling within the play-in section to attempt to attain the final eight.

The ladies’s staff in the meantime – who’ve a separate squad from the staff that completed ninth on the U19 European Championships final month – are in Group A alongside hosts CN Sabadell, Malta’s ASC Sirens and Elevate Water Polo of South Africa. A prime two end will see them attain the semi-finals with groups in each competitions capable of play for his or her remaining placings on Saturday afternoon and on Sunday morning.

You’ll be able to watch the whole competitors reside on BIWPA’s YouTube channel with outcomes and statistics accessible by way of TotalWaterpolo. They’ve a devoted outcomes web page for each occasions with the boys’s accessible right here and the ladies’s outcomes right here.

Studying and progress the important thing

Talking forward of the event, Swim England water polo programme lead, Craig Figes – who can be a part of the teaching workers for the occasion mentioned: “Each groups have been working extremely arduous within the lead as much as this event.

“It’s a primary for us as an U20s staff and we’re actually wanting ahead to giving these athletes an opportunity to showcase their expertise at a global occasion.

“We’ll be going through a few of the prime up-and-coming expertise from world wide so this occasion shall be key in serving to our gamers study and develop.

“Thanks to all of the coaches, workers and everybody again at residence that has supported the group of their preparation for this occasion.”

You’ll be able to see each of Nice Britain’s squads for the occasion right here and you will discover all the small print on the competitors on the occasions web site.