(PRIMASPORT) Pro Recco Waterpolo has been crowned Italian champion for the thirty-eighth time in its history. The team coached by Sandro Sukno defeated AN Brescia 17-12 in game 3, closing the series 3-0 and celebrating their sixth consecutive championship. Leading 7-6 at halftime after a head-to-head battle, Recco secured the title with a 6-2 run in the third period. The Ligurians had won the first two matches of the championship final, played at the Sori municipal swimming pool: on Thursday the 25th, they won 12-8, and on Friday, 17-12. European runner-up, Recco has won every game in the regular season and playoffs. A season that saw the Biancocelesti lift the Coppa Italia Unipol on February 8th. Brescia finished the regular season in second place, stopped only by Pro Recco.
Pro Recco Waterpolo and AN Brescia have faced each other eleven consecutive times in the championship final, from the 2011/2012 season to the 2022/2023 season, fifteen times in total with only two victories for the Lombardy team. The first Scudetto clash was in 2003, when Brescia won 14-13 in Game 5 in Genoa with a golden goal from Roberto Calcaterra in the third period of overtime. Then, it was Pro Recco alone for nine consecutive seasons, until Brescia defeated the Ligurians 3-1 in 2021, securing their second Scudetto. (PRIMASPORT)
Credits: Federnuoto
