Rosario Soto

Rosario Soto

During the final of the 2018 Youth Olympic Games
Player information
Full name	Rosario Soto
birthday	January 7, 2000
place of birth	Cipolletti
citizenship	Argentina
height	1.70 m
Playing position	goalkeeper
Throwing hand	Left
Club information
society	Estudiantes de La Plata
National team
	Games (goals)
Argentina beach handball
Status: February 24, 2020

Rosario Soto (born January 7, 2000 in Cipolletti ) is an Argentine handball player who is particularly successful in the beach handball variant .

Career

Rosario Soto plays in the position of goalkeeper for Estudiantes de La Plata .

Soto in anticipation of a Hungarian attack in the semi-finals of the Youth Olympic Games

Soto saves a shot from Croatia in the final of the Youth Olympic Games

Soto was initially a member of the Argentine national youth team in beach handball. With this she took part in the first Pan American Beach Handball Junior Championships 2017 (U 17) and won the title with her team. It was also the qualification for the Beach Handball Junior World Championships 2017 in Flic-en-Flac on Mauritius . With her team she beat Paraguay and Croatia in the preliminary round, but lost to Hungary. Argentina beat Taiwan in the main round, then lost to the Netherlands. As third in the main round, she moved into the quarter-finals with Argentina, where China was initially defeated. In the semifinals they again lost to the Netherlands, in the game for third place they managed to win over Portugal and thus win the bronze medal. A year later, the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games in her home city of Buenos Aires were the highlight of the season. Beach handball replaced indoor handball for the first time and was Olympic for the first time. Soto was nominated as the only nominal goalkeeper in Argentina. In the preliminary round they beat the teams from Turkey, Paraguay, Venezuela and Hong Kong. Only the last group game, again against the Netherlands, was lost. With 33% held throws against Paraguay and Venezuela and 31% against Turkey, Soto had a significant share in Argentina's good performance. While the games in the preliminary round were always clear issues, they became tighter in the main round, with all three games going into the shootout. After beating Croatia, they lost to the team from Hungary and then won very close against Taiwan. As the third-placed team in the main round, they faced one of the two feared opponents Hungary. Although the Hungarians even scored one point more, the Argentines happily won a hard-fought game in the shootout. In the final, the Argentines met Croatia again and defeated them with 2-0 sets. Soto won the first Olympic gold medal in beach handball with Argentina.

Unlike most of her colleagues from the junior national team, Soto did not immediately move up to the national beach handball team of Argentina in 2019 . As the only player on the Olympic gold team, she did not even belong to the 20-player squad in the run-up to the Central and South American Beach Handball Championships in Maricá in Brazil and the World Beach Games 2019 in Doha , Qatar , as this player position was already well filled. She received her first appointment to the senior national team for the spring tournament of the VILO Handball club in Vicente López in November 2019 , in which the Argentine national team competed with an A and a B team.

Soto fails to save Rea Banic's ball in the Youth Olympic Games final; with the ten Argentine Zoe Turnes , in the foreground the Argentine trainer Leticia Brunati .

In February 2019, Soto and her team ACHA de Mar del Plata , which also included all the other gold medalists of the Youth Olympic Games, Gisella Bonomi , Caterina Benedetti , Carolina Ponce , Fiorella Corimberto , Lucila Balsas , Belén Aizen , Zoe Turnes and Jimena Riadigos , won the Title in the first ever Argentine beach handball summer tour. They were trained by their coach in the Argentine U-national team Leticia Brunati . Together with her national team colleagues Agustina Mamet , María Florencia Allende , Benedetti, Balsas, Turnes and the sisters Fiorella and Micaela Corimberto , she won the IFES Fly Summer Cup in Montevideo in January 2020 .

successes

Junior Pan American Beach Handball Championships

• 2017 : gold

Beach handball junior world championships

• 2017 : bronze

Youth Olympic Games

• 2018 : gold

Argentine beach handball summer tour

• 2019: winner

IFES Fly Summer Cup

• 2019: winner

Web links

Commons : Rosario Soto  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Soto on the website of the Argentine Olympic Committee (Spanish)
• Soto at argentinadorada.com.ar (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Panamericano Juvenil de Beach Handball. In: Federación Cordobesa de Handball. February 24, 2017, accessed February 19, 2020 (Spanish). 
2. ↑ Women's Youth (U17) Beach Handball World Championships 2017. Accessed February 27, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Official Results Book - Beach Handball
4. ↑ Las Selecciones Adultas de beach handball continúan con la preparación para el Centro-Sur de Brasil. In: Confederación Argentina de Handball. June 26, 2019, accessed February 25, 2020 (Spanish). 
5. ↑ The names have no practical value, the two teams were put together so that they are roughly equally strong
6. ↑ ?? Argentina Beach Handball?? on Instagram: "Equipos confirmados para jugar el torneo @springhandball en @vilobeach ?? Los esperamos desde las 9:00 ha. Para vivir una jornada a puro…". Accessed on February 25, 2020 . 
7. ↑ ACHA campeón del Summer Tour de Beach Handball | Marca Deportiva. Retrieved February 22, 2020 (Spanish). 
8. ↑ ?? KAMIKAZES ??: More photos of the festival of the IFES Fly Summer in Uruguay. In: @KamikazesBH. January 19, 2020, accessed February 22, 2020 (Spanish).