Pro Recco

Pro Recco
A.S.D. Pro Recco (Official name: Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Pro Recco) is an Italian professional water polo club from Recco, in Liguria. It currently plays in Serie A1.
Pro Recco is the most successful club in men's water polo. In men's domestic water polo, the club has won a record 52 trophies: a record 35 Serie A1 titles, a record 17 Coppa Italia. In men's LEN European competitions, Pro Recco have won a record 19 trophies: a record 11 LEN Champions League titles, a record 8 LEN Super Cups. The club has also won 1 Adriatic League title.
In women's water polo, the women's team won 1 women's Serie A1 titles, 1 LEN Euro League Women title, 1 Women's LEN Super Cup, making Pro Recco the first sports club in history to have been crowned European Champions with both its men's and women's teams.
History
Pro Recco was founded in 1913 as Rari Nantes Enotria. It has played in the A1 league, the Italian top division, since 1935.
The club is owned by Genovese businessman Gabriele Volpi, who also owns football club Spezia, competing in Serie A, the first tier of Italian football leagues.
It has won a total of 35 national titles, the first in 1959 and the latest in 2023; and the Coppa Italia in 1974, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023. They have won the LEN Champions League in 1964, 1983, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2021, 2022 and 2023; the LEN Super Cup in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2021 and 2022.
Pro Recco has had a women's team since the 2011–12 season.
Honours
Domestic competitions
Serie A1
Champions (35): 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1984, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023
Coppa Italia
Winners (17): 1974, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
European competitions
LEN competitions
LEN Champions League
Winners (11): 1965, 1984, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2021, 2022, 2023
LEN Super Cup
Winners (8): 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2021, 2022
Other competitions
Adriatic League
Winners (1): 2012
Current team
First team
Head coach: Sandro Sukno
Players:
Matteo Aicardi
Marco Del Lungo (GK)
Francesco Di Fulvio
Matteo Iocchi Gratta
Luka Lončar
Gonzalo Echenique
Pietro Figlioli
Ben Hallock
Aleksandar Ivović (C)
Aaron Younger
Gergő Zalánki
Tommaso Negri (GK)
Nicholas Presciutti
Alessandro Velotto
Andrea Fondelli
Famous players
Italian players
Simona Abbate
Marco Del Lungo
Matteo Aicardi
Alberto Angelini
Fabio Bencivenga
Daniele Bettini
Roberta Bianconi
Michaël Bodegas
Gonzalo Echenique
Maurizio Felugo
Pietro Figlioli
Deni Fiorentini
Goran Fiorentini
Federico Lapenna
Stefano Luongo
Alessandro Calcaterra
Alessandro Caliogna
Luigi Castagnola
Aleksandra Cotti
Marco D'Altrui
Arnaldo Deserti
Luigi Di Costanzo
Francesco Di Fulvio
Francesco Ferrari
Massimiliano Ferretti
Niccolò Figari
Andrea Fondelli
Teresa Frassinetti
Alberto Ghibellini
Massimo Giacoppo
Elena Gigli
Alex Giorgetti
Niccolò Gitto
Luca Giustolisi
Luca Gualco
Giancarlo Guerrini
Franco Lavoratori
Gianni Lonzi
Daniele Magalotti
Mario Majoni
Andrea Mangiante
Federico Mistrangelo
Tommaso Negri
Paolo Oliva
Giacomo Pastorino
Paolo Petronelli
Eraldo Pizzo
Danijel Premuš
Christian Presciutti
Nicholas Presciutti
Elisa Queirolo
Paolo Ragosa
Giulia Rambaldi
Olexandr Sadovyy
Roldano Simeoni
Leonardo Sottani
Stefano Tempesti
Alessandro Velotto
Goran Volarević
Christopher Washburn
Foreign players
Joe Kayes
Aaron Younger
Felipe Perrone
Marko Bijač
Luka Lončar
Damir Burić
Andro Bušlje
Nikša Dobud
Maro Joković
Tomislav Paškvalin
Sandro Sukno
Guillermo Molina
Jesús Rollán
Giorgi Mshvenieradze
Revaz Chomakhidze
Tibor Benedek
György Horkai
Gergő Zalánki
Tamás Kásás
Norbert Madaras
Tamás Märcz
István Szívós
Márton Szívós
Aleksandar Ivović
Mlađan Janović
Predrag Jokić
Mirko Vičević
Boris Zloković
Dušan Damjanović
Filip Filipović
Danilo Ikodinović
Dušan Mandić
Slobodan Nikić
Duško Pijetlović
Andrija Prlainović
Nikola Rađen
Dejan Savić
Vanja Udovičić
Vladimir Vujasinović
Ben Hallock
Famous coaches
Ratko Rudić
Giuseppe Porzio
Igor Milanović
References
External links
LEN Euroleague clubs
Water polo clubs in Liguria
Water polo clubs in Italy
Sport in Liguria