Luciana Aymar
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Full name | Luciana Paula Aymar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina | August 10, 1977||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fisherton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jockey Club de Rosario | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1998 | Rot-Weiss Köln | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1999 | Real Club de Polo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2000–2007 | Quilmes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008–2011 | GEBA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1994–1998 | Argentina U21 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1996–Present | Argentina | 350 | (148) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Infobox last updated on: October 1, 2012 |
Luciana Paula Aymar (born August 10, 1977) is an Argentine field hockey midfielder. She is the only player in history to receive the FIH Player of the Year Award award eight times,[1] and she is considered the best female hockey player of all time.[2]
Aymar is known for her ability to beat opposing players using her dribbling skills, for which she has been compared with Argentine football idol Diego Maradona. For this reason she has received the nicknames "La Maga", "El Diego" and "La Maradona del hockey".
Career
Aymar started playing at age seven for Club Atlético Fisherton, in her native Rosario. She moved to Jockey Club de Rosario six years later. Eventually, she began training with the junior national team, for which she had to travel every day to Buenos Aires. In 1997 she was part of the national team that won the Pan American Games Junior Championship, and a year later she debuted with the senior national team, finishing fourth at the World Cup. She was also the youngest Argentine to be accepted into the squad, at just 16.
Aymar is part of a generation in Argentine field hockey that has won several international tournaments from the 1999 Pan American Games on, including an Olympic silver medal, and three Champions Trophies. Nicknamed La Maga ("The Magician"), her outstanding performances have driven her to be chosen as the FIH player of the year eight times. She carried the flag for her country at the opening ceremony of the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Beyond her athletic life Luciana launched a modelling career.[3]
Aymar took Argentina to win the World Cup in her hometown Rosario in a brand new stadium.
In the 2012 Summer Olympics Luciana became the second Argentine to achieve 4 medals, the other being Carlos Mauricio Espínola.[4]
Awards and honours
Club
- Rot-Weiss Köln
- European Club Championship: 1998
International
- Argentina Junior
- Pan American Games: Gold Medal (1997)
- Junior World Cup: Bronze Medal (1997)
- Argentina
- Pan American Games: Gold Medal (1999, 2003, 2007), Silver Medal (2011)
- Summer Olympics: Silver Medal (2000, 2012), Bronze Medal (2004, 2008).
- Champions Trophy: Gold Medal (2001, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012), Silver Medal (2002, 2007, 2011), Bronze Medal (2004)
- World Cup: Gold Medal (2002, 2010), Bronze Medal (2006)
Individual
- Champions Trophy's Player of the Tournament (8): 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012
- FIH Player of the Year (8): 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013
- World Cup's Player of the Tournament (2): 2002, 2010
References
- ↑ "Amazing Aymar lands eighth FIH Player of the Year crown". 2013-12-08. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
- ↑ "Luciana Aymar, otra vez la reina del planeta". Cancha Llena (in Spanish). 2010-11-12. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ↑ http://www.minutohockey.com/2012/06/luciana-aymar-de-jugadora-a-modelo/
- ↑ http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Mauricio_Esp%C3%ADnola
External links
- "Luciana Aymar: The Hard Way to the Top" – WorldHockey
- "Aymar collects record third WorldHockey crown" – FIH
Awards | ||
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Preceded by Alyson Annan |
FIH Player of the Year 2001 |
Succeeded by Cecilia Rognoni |
Preceded by Mijntje Donners |
FIH Player of the Year 2004–2005 |
Succeeded by Minke Booij |
Preceded by Minke Booij |
FIH Player of the Year 2007–2010 |
Succeeded by Maartje Paumen |
Preceded by Maartje Paumen |
FIH Player of the Year 2013 |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
Preceded by Juan Martin Del Potro |
Olimpia de Oro 2010 |
Succeeded by Lionel Messi |
Olympic Games | ||
Preceded by Manu Ginóbili |
Flagbearer for Argentina London 2012 |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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