Matthew Holland (water polo)

Matthew " Matt" Holland ( born June 22, 1989 in Carshalton, Greater London ) is a British water polo player at the position of the goalkeeper, who with the British water polo national team, which was not represented at the Summer Olympic Games since 1956, at the Summer Olympic Games in 2012 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 in his youth with the water ball sports. Holland, who has a degree in Sport Science and Sport Psychology ( Sport and Exercise Science) from the University of Leeds, made ​​its debut in the senior team in 2008 when qualifying tournament for Water Polo Championship 2008 in Dubrovnik. In the same year of the official website of the Olympic Games with a size of 1.94 m and a weight of 96 kg listed goalkeeper was involved in the qualification of the British team at the Junior World Water Polo Championship of the same year, where the team finally Scrapping in 13th place from the tournament was eliminated. Thereafter, Holland became a strong backing in his respective team and participated as part of the British water polo selection part in the European Championships B in Switzerland, where the team finished fourth at the end of the tournament. In another water polo tournament of the year in Istanbul Holland has been awarded even the best goalkeeper of the competition. In addition, he was part of the A-National team squad in the qualification for the European Championships and the A qualifying tournament for the FINA Water Polo World League the same year. In professional relationships, he played in the last few years at club based at the water polo Department of PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands and in the Pays d' Aix Natation in the French university town of Aix -en- Provence. In Aix Natation, as the sports association is usually called, Holland has rapidly become a regular player in the goal of the French first division. When water polo tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics, the United Kingdom for 56 years took over as organizer of the Olympic Games for the first time in part with a British water polo national team at the said competition. There, the British were around goalkeeper Matt Holland to date (as of August 2, 2012 ) is not really enforce and rank when Mr. tournament in last place.