Francesco Di Fulvio (born 15 August 1993) is a professional

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 from

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

. He was part of the Italian team at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

, where the team won the bronze medal.

Honours

Pro Recco *

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 ...

: 2014–15,

2020–21 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen b ...

, 2021–22,

2022–23 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen b ...

; ''runners-up'': 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 ...

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, 2021, 2022 *

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...

: 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18 , 2018–19, 2021–22, 2022–23 *

Coppa Italia The ("Italy Cup") is an annual knockout cup competition in Italian football organized by the FIGC until the 2009–10 season and the Lega Serie A ever since. History The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...

: 2014–15 , 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23

Individual

* FINA "World Player of the Year" award: 2019, 2022, 2023 * Swimming World Magazine's man water polo "World Player of the Year" award: 2019, 2022, 2023 * Waterpolo-World Magazine's man water polo "World Player of the Year" award: 2022 * LEN "European Player of the Year" award: 2019, 2022 *Member of the World Team by total-waterpolo: 2019, 2022 *

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 ...

: 2021–22 *

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, ...

: 2019 Gwangju *

Team of the Tournament:

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* Serie A1

: 2018–19, 2021–22 * Serie A1 Top Scorer: 2020–21 *

Left Driver of the Year: 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18 , 2018–19, 2021–22, 2022–23 *

Young Player of the Year: 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13 *Italian Water Polo Player of the Year: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023

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* 1993 births Living people Sportspeople from Pescara Italian male water polo players Water polo drivers Water polo players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Italy in water polo Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games competitors for Italy Water polo players at the 2020 Summer Olympics World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo 21st-century Italian people {{Italy-Olympic-medalist-stub

Honours

Individual

See also

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