Argentina women's national hockey team

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The Argentine national hockey team for women (nickname: Las Leonas , German: The Lionesses) represents Argentina at international hockey tournaments. The lionesses have collected over 20 medals at World Championships, Pan American Games , Olympic Games and the Champions Trophy .

Argentina currently ranks fourth in the world - and first in the Pan-America rankings.

history

Hockey came to Argentina with English settlers in the early 20th century. The first women's team was officially founded in 1909. In 1997, Sergio Vigil , a former national player, was named coach of Las Leonas. Under his coaching they achieved their first world title, their first Olympic medal and their first medal at the Champions Trophy. As a result, there was a rapid increase in popularity. As the only team to date, they won the Olimpia de Oro ( Argentina's Sportsman of the Year ) in 2000 .

Origin of the nickname

Goalkeeper of the Argentina national team

Throughout its history, the team has built a reputation for fighting every game. For this reason, after qualifying for the 2000 Olympic Games, they chose a lioness as their symbol. The Argentines played their second game against the outstanding team of the Netherlands . This was the first time they played this game with a lioness on their jerseys. Argentina won the game and then the silver medal: With that, the Las Leonas were born.

The name follows a tradition of Argentine national teams to name themselves after big cats: The men's rugby team is called Los Pumas (The Pumas), the volleyball women are called Las Panteras (The Panthers).

Tournaments

World Hockey Championships

Olympic games

FIH Champions Trophy

Pan American Games

Pan American Cup

Las Leoncitas

The U21 team is called Las Leoncitas (the lioness babies). They were also successful and are three-time world champions and five-time winners of Pan American medals.

Tournaments

World championships

Pan American Championships

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Current Women's FIH World Ranking (PDF) accessed August 8, 2018
  2. ↑ Olimpias de oro www.cpd.com.ar. Retrieved September 4, 2019.

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