Index – Sport – Rita Keszthelyi’s spaceship is still being registered in Trieste

This is a moment in the history of sport, because it has not happened often, if at all, that in an Olympic decisive match that we are fighting at the opponent’s home, the Hungarian team plays with its rival off the field. Not just anyone, but the champions of the Athens Games, the silver medalist from the Rio Olympics, the finalist in the World League last year. Italian staff, Gianni Lonzi, Paolo Barelli, Alessandro Campagna, in front of everyone’s eyes. We are proud to receive your congratulations after the game – it flooded the index. Judge Attila Federal captain after the 13-10 victory of the Hungarian women’s water polo team over Italy, which won in Trieste, the semifinal of the Olympic qualifying tournament, and with which we reached the best of the Tokyo Games.

We really rub our eyes in disbelief, like the Hungarian national team. Szilágyi one then Keszthely with two goals, he tied 3-0 in three minutes and did not even give up the initiative from then on. The Hungarian team that only suffered in the group match against the Greeks on Thursday.

Let’s face it, this is rare in team sports, especially for women, so when all external circumstances speak against us, a band must stand out, the expert continued. “After an 8-5 loss to the Greeks, I did not take the girls to the yellow field, but tried to draw strength from failure and prepare the team for the fateful clash on Saturday. Obviously, I didn’t know in advance that we would be so good, but I was sure that we would have a chance to win. We knew that the Italians would be defeated at first, and then a terrible blow would have to be dealt to them, and they did.

In such cases, one rightly wonders how this could be known.

That on the one hand we have a great psychologist in my land, Eger’s Imre Csernus in person, and we work together with one Mentors and partners company, which deals with the development of the business organization, and in our case also considers the national team as a company to be developed. This company conducted mental training for us, which has now paid off. Of course they are not in Trieste, nor Imre, their work was finished when we got on the bus and left.

Extremely interesting is the way Captain Judge treated his players after a truly depressing defeat suffered by the Greeks.

I didn’t raise my voice because I knew that after a forced 11-month hiatus from the virus, a good game could not be expected from the team. This is why it was so difficult to select a frame because I had no idea about the shapes. While the Greeks were playing preparatory matches with the Spanish in Malaga, they had an advantage over us. And I knew we weren’t going to play that bad again. It was just an advantage for that To Alda Magyari It was not possible to score a goal for a long time, and for Rita Keszthelyi we are looking for her spaceship where she landed, because what she provided, not only with her six goals, but with her game in general, was an extraterrestrial performance. . He played space water ball! There are very few such players in the world.

The captain also spoke about why the twenty-year-old Hungarian was defended by our number one goalkeeper, the routine Gangl edina instead.

I know Alda’s abilities, he’s been in the frame for two and a half years, but so far he hasn’t been as strong in his head as he is now. He developed a lot at his club, in Dunaújváros, and for a year and a half he also defended the view of the Dutch in the BENU Cup. I have told the girls before that it will be more difficult to reach the final at this tournament in Trieste than at the Olympics. Our current game against anyone can be enough, perhaps with the exception of the Americans, and now it would be great to win the first Olympic medal in Hungarian women’s water polo. I’m already very proud that, since I’ve been captain, we’ve always been to the Olympics.

At eight o’clock on Sunday night, the Trieste final, a prestigious match, is still, in fact, without bet.

(Cover photo: Rita Keszthelyi in Trieste on January 22, 2021. Photo: Marcel ter Bals / BSR Agency / Getty Images)