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Dear friends of HaBaWaBa,  Bruno Cufino, President of Waterpolo Development. as president of Waterpolo Development I’m glad to start the 2025 edition of world’s biggest waterpolo event for kids. Also this year, HaBaWaBa International Festival and HaBaWaBa International Festival PLUS are bringing little players from all 5 continents to Bella Italia & EFA Village in […]

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Dear friends of HaBaWaBa, 

Bruno Cufino, President of Waterpolo Development.

Bruno Cufino, President of Waterpolo Development.

as president of Waterpolo Development I’m glad to start the 2025 edition of world’s biggest waterpolo event for kids. Also this year, HaBaWaBa International Festival and HaBaWaBa International Festival PLUS are bringing little players from all 5 continents to Bella Italia & EFA Village in Lignano Sabbiadoro: we have 147 teams participating, 15 nations are represented. The uniqueness of HaBaWaBa lies precisely in its global nature, here kids can meet, play and make friends with other children who fell in love with waterpolo, coming from different countries. Once again, kids are going to learn that sport is a universal language that breaks down all kinds of barriers.  

I also would like to extend a special greeting to the girls who will participate in the U13 female tournament: Waterpolo Development has worked hard to strengthen this competition and is pleased to have more than doubled the number of participating teams compared to the last edition. Waterpolo needs girls and women in order to grow, IOC has also understand this: at the next Olympic Games in Los Angeles 2028, for the first time the number of women teams will be the same as the number of men teams (12). My hope is that some of our HaBaWaBa girls will be able to participate in the Olympics sooner or later: it has already happened in Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, where as many as 21 players who had been to HaBaWaBa as children took part. 

We call them HaBaWaBa Stars: thanks to the “game of the ball in the water” they have made their bond with waterpolo indissoluble, their love for the sport has enabled them to enthusiastically walk the long road to becoming world-class athletes. And even if there will be no Olympics in their future, I am sure they are going to experience special moments here at HaBaWaBa: it has already happened to tens of thousands of kids!

Before the show starts, I would like you to thank our sponsors – Turbo, Compact Goals, Ossidabile and All Risk Consulenze Assicurative – and the little players’ families, clubs and coaches who brought them here: without them, HaBaWaBa could not be the magical event that it is.

And now, have fun: HaBaWaBa is finally starting!

 

Bruno Cufino – President of Waterpolo Development

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