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Croatian has special feelings for U.S. water polo.(The Orange County Register)
Byline: Mark Whicker
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. _ Even as a teenager, he noticed. There was always something about the water polo guys.
They became the lawyers and the doctors and the moneymakers. They got the best grades. They never required a nudge, much less a kick.
Ratko Rudic, growing up on the Dalmatian coast of Croatia, had sports to choose. "I was going to play football," he said, referring to our soccer. "But my dad said the water polo players were intellectuals. They went to school. The football players dropped out."
Now he stands on the deck of the Joint Forces Training Base Pool in Los Alamitos, outdoors in the sunshine, the brooding, prodding coach of the once-glorious U.S. men's water polo team.
As the hours pile up and the muscles ache below him, you wonder if the athletes can still see the egghead in Rudic.
"You ...
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