March 20 - FINA Water Polo

Once again we were at Albert Park, but this time for the FINA Water Polo tournament. In an early round match Greece was playing Russia, which was a big deal in Melbourne since it is the largest Greek city in the world outside of Greece.






Greece thoroughly outplayed the Russians, which was not much of a surprise since they had their traditional pre-game meal of lamb souvlakis and baklava. Also because they are a top-5 team in the world.



We literally had front-row seats to the match so we were able to see how dejected the Russian coach was at the end: