{"id":18103,"date":"2025-04-14T02:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T02:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/18103\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T02:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T02:30:11","slug":"spain-beats-greece-in-water-polos-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/18103\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain beats Greece in water polo\u2019s World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4652159.jpg\" alt=\"Spain beats Greece in water polo\u2019s World Cup final\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4652159.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[InTime Sports]<\/p>\n<p>Greece came close to winning the Men\u2019s Water Polo World Cup, but lost in Sunday\u2019s final to Spain to end up second in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Podgorica in Montenegro hosted this World Aquatics tournament and saw Greece advance to its final with its 18-14 triumph over Hungary in the semis.<\/p>\n<p>The Greeks even got a two-goal lead early in the first half against Spain, but the Spanish were more prolific in attack.<\/p>\n<p>Greece\u2019s last gasp effort reduced its deficit from three goals (12-9) to one (12-11), but the Spanish imposed themselves afterwards, leafing by four (16-12) and finishing the game off.<\/p>\n<p>This was Greece\u2019s first appearance in a World Cup final after 28 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[InTime Sports] Greece came close to winning the Men\u2019s Water Polo World Cup, but lost in Sunday\u2019s final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104,79,12041],"class_list":{"0":"post-18103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-water-polo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114333969541427173","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}