A bronze medal at the Rabobank Hockey World Cup 2014 in The Hague (NED) changed everything, with Los Leones (The Lions) going on to claim Olympic gold – something that even Las Leonas have not achieved – at Rio 2016. #ARGENTINA OLYMPIC GAMES TOKYO 2020 PRO#As one of the very few teams in world hockey to have beaten reigning World, European and FIH Hockey Pro League champions the Netherlands in recent years, they will feel that the gold medal is certainly within the realms of possibility.įor decades, Argentina’s men were hidden in the long shadow cast by the remarkable achievements of their female counterparts. Since the 2014 retirement of eight times FIH Player of the Year Luciana Aymar – unquestionably one of the greatest players in the history of the sport – Argentina have claimed numerous titles, including the 2016 Champions Trophy, the 2017 Pan-American Cup and the 2019 Pan American Games, with the latter sealing their spot at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. ‘Las Leonas’ (The Lionesses) have long been considered as one of the world’s most fearsome attacking teams and are undisputedly a true powerhouse of the game. The men’s and women’s teams of Argentina are the subject of the latest of our FIH Spotlights series, with the two behemoths of Pan American hockey more than capable of challenging for the title at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
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