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About Global Wave

Built on Olympic experience. Run for the next generation.

Global Wave Inc is a water polo consultancy, international training operator and event partner based in Montréal, Québec. Our work is anchored in decades of high-performance competition at Olympic and World Championship level.

We offer programming for athletes, coaches and organizations: international training tours across Europe; a pipeline program built with USA Water Polo; and consulting on coach education, club development, event organization, competition design and athlete pathways. The connecting thread is experience — a management team drawn from sport, law, business and information technology, with unparalleled passion for water polo.

Founder · President

Dragan Jovanović

Born in the former Yugoslavia, Dragan grew up living water polo. His career in the sport spans close to four decades — as an athlete, club coach, national-team coach, high-performance director, federation president and chief executive.

He has been part of elite international competition at the Olympic Games, FINA World Championships, European Championships, Champions League, Pan American Games, FISU Games and the Commonwealth Games. Today he serves as Executive Director of the World Water Polo Coaches Association.

"My mandate is simple," he says. "Build programs that put athletes on pool decks they could not reach alone — and give their coaches the tools to keep them there."

30+
Years in high-performance sport
Olympic & World level
International water polo competition
How we work

Six principles. One calendar.

01

Team travels first

We build for squads — not individual camps. The unit is the team.

02

Level over label

We do not sell brand names. We sell the level of opposition we can line up for you.

03

Coaches are multipliers

Invest in the coach and you compound every athlete they will ever work with.

04

All ages

Youth. College. Masters. High performance. The sport is bigger than one age group.

05

The sport's map is wider than you think

Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Montenegro, Greece, Malta, Slovenia, Spain — we build there.

06

Own the unglamorous work

Visas, transfers, kit, meals, recovery. Done quietly. Every time.

Timeline

A decade of building.

2014

Global Wave Inc established

Montréal-based water polo company launches, building on decades of international coaching experience.

2015

FINA recognition

Programs gain international federation endorsement and begin scaling globally.

2017

Partnership with Malmsten

Swedish performance brand becomes a Global Wave partner; distribution relationships deepen.

2018

The Futures launches with USA Water Polo

New international pipeline program designed with USWP's ODP for next-generation athletes.

2018

Turbo Canada

Global Wave becomes the exclusive Canadian distributor for Turbo — one of Europe's leading water polo brands.

2020

KAP7 International partnership

Equipment partnership with the Olympic-athlete-founded brand extends North American reach.