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The Hungarian national water polo team made it to the 2016 Olympic Games
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Nemzetisport.hu reports that even though it was a tough game, the Hungarian team eventually won against Germany, and thus gained their qualification to the Olympic Games, held in Rio, this year. Congratulations to the team!
The 8th of April brought victory for Hungary at the Men’s Water Polo Olympic Games Qualification Tournament in Trieste as they beat Germany. The aim of the Hungarian team was all along to get on top of their group and qualify themselves to Rio. According to Nemzeti Sport, pre-game, their chances of beating the German team were great, though, it would have been a mistake to treat them carelessly. During the match, the Hungarians seemed to win easily, however, in the final quarter the Germans scored goals until they needed only one more to equate. But, they could not. Hungary won!
The Hungarians started off pretty well, Erdélyi scored a goal at the beginning of the match. The emphasis was on the defence, for more than ten minutes the Germans could not make any goals. Hungarians however, could, by half-time they had scored five goals, while the opponents two. In the third quarter of the match, the German goalkeeper, Kong successfully fulfilled his position, making it difficult to the Hungarians to score a goal, eventually they could manage to make two, so the scoreboard displayed 7-3 by the beginning of the last quarter.