Dénes Andor Varga (born 29 March 1987) is a Hungarian

water polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...

player, currently playing for Ferencváros. He was a member of the gold medal winning

Hungary men's national water polo team The Hungary men's national water polo team represents Hungary in international men's water polo competitions and is controlled by the Hungarian Water Polo Association. It is considered the world's top power in the history of water polo, having wo ...

at the

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, together with his older brother Dániel.

Honours

National

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...

gold medal –

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;

bronze medal –

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gold medal –

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;

silver medal – 2007,

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* European Championship:

gold medal – 2020; Silver medal europe

silver medal – 2006, 2014; Bronze medal europe

bronze medal – 2008, 2012, 2016 * FINA World League: Silver medal blank

silver medal – 2007, 2013, 2014 * FINA World Cup: Silver medal blank

silver medal – 2014 * Junior World Championships: (gold medal - 2007; Silver medal - 2003) * Junior European Championship: (silver medal - 2002, 2006; Bronze medal - 2004) * Youth European Championship: (silver medal - 2003)

Club

Vasas (TEVA-VasasPlaket) * Hungarian Championship: 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10 *

Hungarian Cup The Hungarian Cup ( hu, Magyar Kupa) is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the Hungarian Football Association, the ''Magyar Labdarúgó Szövetség,'' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of the Hungarian ...

: 2004, 2005,

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* Hungarian Super Cup: 2006 Primorje Rijeka (Primorje Erste banka) * Croatian Chequy

Croatian Championship: 2013–14 * Croatian-roundel

Croatian Cup Croatian Cup may refer to: *Croatian Football Cup *Croatian Football Super Cup * Croatian Women's Football Cup *Croatian Basketball Cup, also known as Krešimir Ćosić Cup *Croatian Handball Cup *Croatian Water Polo Cup *Croatian Minute Movie Cup ...

: 2012, 2013 *

Adriatic League The ABA League, renamed to the ABA League First Division in 2017, is the 1st-tier regional men's professional basketball league that originally featured clubs from the former Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Mace ...

: 2012–13, 2013–14 * LEN Champions League ''runners-up'': 2011–12 Szolnok (Szolnoki Dózsa-KÖZGÉP) * Hungarian Championship: 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17 *

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* Hungarian Super Cup: 2016 *

LEN Champions League The LEN Champions League is the top-tier European professional water polo club competition with teams from up to 18 countries. It is organized by the Ligue Européenne de Natation. The competition started in 1963 as European Cup. A change of nam ...

: 2016–17 Ferencváros (FTC PQS Waterpolo, FTC-Telekom) * Hungarian Championship: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22 *

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, 2020, 2021 * Hungarian Super Cup:

* LEN Champions League: 2018–19 ; ''runners-up'':

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LEN Euro Cup The LEN Euro Cup is the second-tier European water polo club competition run by the Ligue Européenne de Natation for those clubs who did not qualify for the LEN Champions League. The cup was inaugurated in 1992. History Names of the competitio ...

: 2017–18 *

LEN Super Cup The LEN Super Cup is an annual water polo match organized by LEN and contested by the reigning champions of the two European club competitions, the LEN Champions League and the LEN Euro Cup. From 1976 to 2002, the LEN Super Cup was contested betwe ...

Awards

* Szalay Iván-díj (2004) * Faragó Tamás-díj (Best junior player of year): (2007, 2008) * Junior World Championship Top Scorer: 2007 * Junior World Championship

MVP In team sports, a most valuable player award, abbreviated 'MVP award', is an honor typically bestowed upon an individual (or individuals, in the instance of a tie) whose individual performance is the greatest in an entire league, for a particu ...

: 2007Dénes Varga
. nbcolympics.com * 2007 Junior World Championship Team of the Tournament : 2007 * Junior Príma díj (2008) * Member of the Hungarian team of year: 2008, 2013 *

(1): 2010–11 with Primorje Rijeka *

Top Scorer (2): 2010–11, 2013–14 with Primorje Rijeka * Ministerial Certificate of Merit (2012) * LEN Champions League Top Scorer (1): 2015–16 with Szolnok * 2013 World Championship Team of the Tournament *

World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...

(1): 2013 Barcelona * LEN "European Player of the Year" award: 2013 * FINA "World Player of the Year" award: 2013 * ''Total-waterpolo'' magazine's man water polo "World Player of the Year" award: 2019 *Member of the World Team 2019 by ''total-waterpolo'' *Member of the World Team of the Year's 2000-2020 by ''total-waterpolo'' * World Cup MVP (1): 2014 Almaty * European Championship

(2): 2014 Budapest, 2020 Budapest * Hungarian Water Polo Player of the Year: 2014, 2018, 2019 * Hungarian Championship

(1): 2014–15 with Szolnok * Hungarian Championship Top Scorer (1): 2016–17 with Ferencvaros * LEN Champions League Final Four MVP (1):

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with Primorje Rijeka * LEN Champions League Final Eight MVP (1):

with Ferencvaros ;Orders * HUN Order of Merit of the Hungarian Rep (civil) 4class BAR

Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2008)

References

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