Ken Pereira

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Kenneth ("Ken") Pereira (born July 12, 1973 in Unionville, Ontario) is a field hockey midfielder from Canada, who only started playing the game at sixteen. He earned his first international cap in 1994 in a friendly match against Mexico in Toronto (3-0 win). Pereira scored the now famous winning goal against Argentina in the final of the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg. With the victory (1-0), Canada earned an automatic qualification for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

[edit] International Senior Competitions

• 1995 – Pan American Games, Mar del Plata (2nd)
• 1996 – Olympic Qualifier, Barcelona (6th)
• 1996 – World Cup Preliminary, Sardinia (2nd)
• 1997 – World Cup Qualifier, Kuala Lumpur (5th)
• 1998 – World Cup, Utrecht (8th)
• 1998 – Commonwealth Games, Kuala Lumpur (not ranked)
• 1999 – Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, Kuala Lumpur (4th)
• 1999 – Pan American Games, Winnipeg (1st)
• 2000 – Americas Cup, Cuba (2nd)
• 2000 – Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, Kuala Lumpur (7th)
• 2000 – Olympic Games, Sydney (10th)
• 2001 – World Cup Qualifier, Edinburgh (8th)
• 2002 – Indoor Pan American Cup, Rockville, USA (1st)
• 2002 – Commonwealth Games, Manchester (6th)
• 2004 – Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Madrid (11th)
• 2006 – Commonwealth Games, Melbourne (9th)