Garcia, Filipovic 2014 Europe's best players

Serbia's Filip Filipovic and Spain's centre-forward Maria Maica Garcia have won the LEN Awards for Europe's best players of 2014, LEN announced through their digital Online Magazine on Thursday. Filipovic, who had previously claimed the FINA World Best Player award for 2014 late last year, received a convincing 56,1% of the votes by the panel of  voters (cosisting of LEN Member Federations and members of LEN’s committees, commissions and panels) while Garcia, who led Spain to a European championship gold medal in Budapest and also won the club Euro League title with Sabadell, led all other nominees no chance taking a dominating 59,6% of the votes. Runner-up in the men's category finished Serbian goalie Gojko Pijetlovic with 22,8% of the votes, while Spanish captain Jennifer Pareja received 15,8% to finish 2nd in the women's category. Read more for full results.

WATER POLO – Women     

1.    Maria Garcia (Spain)    59,6%
• European champion
• Winner of Euro League (with Sabadell)
• World Cup bronze medallist
• World League 5th
• MVP of the European Championships
• 3rd best scorer of the European Championships

2.    Jennifer Pareja (Spain)    15,8%
• European champion
• Winner of Euro League (with Sabadell)
• World Cup bronze medallist
• World League 5th

3.    Rita Keszthelyi (Hungary)    14,0%
• European Championships bronze medallist
• World Cup 5th
• 3rd in Euro League (with Orizzonte)
• Top scorer of the European Championships
• Top scorer of the World Cup

4.    Giulia Gorlero (Italy)    7,0%
• World League silver medallist
• European Championships 4th
• 4th in Euro League (with Mediterranea)
• Best goalkeeper of the European Championships

5.    Sabrina van der Sloot (Netherlands)    3,5%
• European Championships silver medallist
• 7th on the top scorers list of the European Championships



WATER POLO – Men     

1.    Filip Filipovic (Serbia)    56,1%
• European champion
• Runner-up in Champions League (with Radnicki)
• World League winner
• Top scorer of the World League Super Final
• 4th best scorer of the European Championships

2.    Gojko Pijetlovic (Serbia)    22,8%
• European champion
• World League winner
• Best goalkeeper of the World League Super Final
• Best goalkeeper of the European Championships

3.    Daniel Varga (Hungary)    12,3%
• European Championships silver medallist
• World League silver medallist
• World Cup silver medallist
• MVP of the World League Super Final
• MVP of the World Cup
• 3rd Champions League (with Rijeka)

4.    Denes Varga (Hungary)    5,3%
• World League silver medallist
• European Championships silver medallist
• World Cup silver medallist
• MVP of the European Championships
• 3rd Champions League (with Rijeka)

5.    Dusan Mandic (Serbia)    3,5%
• European champion
• World League winner
• World Cup winner
• 4th in Champions League (with Partizan)