Water polo | Water Polo Rules

Water polo is one of the sports that are more demanding. If swimming is incredibly accurate, physical strength and great resistance, water polo we have to add the demands of a game at the highest level.

The objective of the waterpolo is simple. Like any sport with goals, the goal is to score more goals than the opposing team. They play six players and a goalkeeper on each team and game time is divided into four quarters of eight minutes each (only counts the time that the ball is in play). Also, players have only 30 seconds of possession to end the rally after the start (if collected the rebound after a shot is counted as a different play, as in basketball).

Obviously, a player must be all the time you are in the field afloat. You can not touch the floor of the pool (among other things, is hardly feasible given the depth of this) and can not catch the ball with both hands except the goalkeeper. Nor can they give with a closed fist, except the goalkeeper.

A player can earn up to three expulsions (the third is the definitive one), that can happen to prevent movement to a player or making a flagrant foul, like water splashing in the eyes of another player. Nor can sink the ball in the water.

Hungary is currently the best team in world water polo, a sport in which Spain has always had a role (got the gold medal in Atlanta 1996). However, since those Olympics, Hungarians have not stopped reaping international victories)