JSD Partizan fan blog in English: The water polo team is the champion!!!!

Sunday, May 17, 2015

The water polo team is the champion!!!!

This whole story starts in the Banjica swimming pool, where the team played the 2nd match of the final (you can read about the first one here)

and I send a nuclear bomb right into the lap with all my heart to that person who again put the water polo and football match right to the very same date and time

where the two teams fought and struggled with each other for 32 minutes, to make it to 7:7 for the end.
It began with Mandić, who came, saw and it resulted in 2:1 for us for the end of the first quarter. Partizan started with great pace and pressure, while the Kragujevac-based team was just watching with a dry resignation as our Captain scored two goals.

(photo: sportskacentrala.com)

For the second quarter they picked themselves together. They shot 3 goals, but at the same time we also scored 3. We were leading to 5:4 in the half-time. Radnički figured out, if they hadn’t done something very quickly, they would have waved goodbye to the championship title dreams.
After this they took the lead to 5:7 for the third quarter.
It must not keep going like this.

Timeout

(photo: sportskacentrala.com)

There came the 4th quarter.
Jakšić got the ball and scored. 6:7, the difference was only one point then. At the other side of the pool Rističević saved even the impossible.

Statue to him and Soro, NOW, to the entrance of the Banjica pool.

Subotić equalized. End buzz, 7:7. Penalty shootout. Soro was at our goal line, he was the goalkeeper in the first half as well.
And it was an excellent choice. Soro

engild both his hands

saved two penalties. One of them was shot by Ćirić, he saved it literally with his forehead. The other was by Vuksanović. The end result was 12:13, the team was looking forward to the Saturday match with two victories behind them.

(photo: zurnal.rs)

A big thank you to SOS Kanal to upload the highlights of these matches to their Youtube-channel. Without these videos I could have written even less about this match, because - you can pelt me with stones - I was watching the football team’s victory and joy in Kruševac.

Then came Saturday, third match, again in the Kragujevac swimming pool.

This was the most awful. At first it seemed to be perfect. It started after the football match, it all looked too good to be true.
Well, it wasn’t.
The match was broadcasted only by RTS 2. No other channel took it over, and none of the goddamn stream links worked. As if an elephant would have sit on all of them. I swear, I grew 10 years older during these one and a half hours, when I got to know the result. My gratitude goes to pafteq to inform me.

All that I could learn from the different reports, it could be the Match of the Year, nerve-racking, with lots of battles, being uncertain about the final result until the end buzz. We won the first quarter to 4:5. We were still on the lead to 5:7 in the half-time, but Radnički didn’t let themselves push down and it was clear, we must not gather long-term conclusions from this two-goal difference.
It was especially true when Kragujevac reduced the difference to one goal for the third quarter, when we were leading to 9:10. We were ahead with one goal, but the end seemed to be further than ever.
In the last quarter it was a nip and tuck game. One and a half minutes before the end the standing was 13:13.

Those lucky fans who could watch the game, were searching for heart pills at this point, or screamed for defibrillator.

And here came Dušan Mandić and his left hand.
13:14!!!!! We are leading!!!!
And it was still not the end.
Because only 30 seconds before the final buzz our goalkeeper, Dimitrije Rističević, who made wonders again at our goal line, performed one of his best, or not even the best save of his career by keeping our net from Basara’s shot.
End.
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!!!!
This is our 26th championship title, just like for the football team!!!!
Happiness. Joy. Tears. Screaming, singing, jumping to the water with clothes on.