Matt Holland (water polo player)

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Matthew "Matt" Holland (born June 22, 1989 in Carshalton , Greater London ) is a British water polo player in the position of goalkeeper who played with the British water polo national team, which has not been represented at the Summer Olympics since 1956 , at the 2012 Summer Olympics participated.

life and career

Born in the early summer of 1989 in the London suburb of Carshalton in the London Borough of Sutton , Holland began playing water polo in his youth. Holland, a degree in sports science and sports psychology (Sport and Exercise Science) from the University of Leeds , has made its debut in the senior national team in 2008 at the qualifying tournament for the 2008 Men's European Water Polo Championship in Dubrovnik . In the same year the goalkeeper listed on the official website of the Olympic Games with a height of 1.94 m and a weight of 96 kg was involved in the qualification of the British team at the European Junior Water Polo Championship of the same year, where the team finally Eliminated from the tournament in 13th place. After that, Holland became a strong support in their respective teams and took part in the European B Championships in Switzerland as part of the British water polo selection, where the team finished fourth at the end of the tournament. At another water polo tournament in Istanbul in the same year , Holland was even named the best goalkeeper in the competition. He was also part of the senior national team for qualifying for the European A Championships and the qualifying tournament for the FINA Water Polo World League of the same year. In the last few years he played under professional conditions on a club basis with the water polo department of PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands and with Pays d'Aix Natation in the French university town of Aix-en-Provence . At Aix Natation , as the sports association is usually called, Holland quickly became a regular player in the goal of the French first division club. At the water polo tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics , the United Kingdom, as the organizer of the Olympic Games, took part in the said competition for the first time in 56 years with a British water polo national team. There, the British around goalkeeper Matt Holland could not prevail and took last place in their preliminary group.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London 2012 Olympics: Team GB water polo squads announced , accessed on August 2, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Holland, Matt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holland, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British water polo player
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Carshalton , Greater London, United Kingdom