Cecilia Rognoni
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | María Cecilia Rognoni Potocki | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 1, 1976 Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Defender | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| –2005 | Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1994–1997 | Argentina U21 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1994–2004, 2010 | Argentina | 231 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Infobox last updated on: April 26th, 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
María Cecilia Rognoni Potocki (born December 1, 1976 in Buenos Aires) is a retired Argentine field hockey defender, who won the gold medal at the 2002 World Cup at Perth, Australia where she was elected as the best woman hockey player in the world by the FIH. She is currently playing in the Dutch team HC Bloemendaal in the second division of the Netherlands.[1]
Cecilia belongs to the generation that gave rise to the myth of the Las Leonas. She won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and the Champions Trophy in 2001. In 2005 she was separated from the Argentine national field hockey team by the coach Gabriel Minadeo, after she said that "many of the players have a place on the team just because of their surname".[2] She came back to the team in 2010 [3] under Carlos Retegui coaching but was forced to leave the team due knee injuries [4]
She also played for Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires and HC Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Honours
- 1994: Champion of the South American Tournament (Chile)
- 1995: 4th place in the Olympic Qualifying Tournament (Cape Town)
- 1996: 7th place in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics
- 1997: 3rd place in the Junior World Championships (Korea)
- 1998: 4th place in World Championship (Utrecht, Netherlands)
- 1999: Gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games (Winnipeg)
- 1999: 4th place in the Champions Trophy (Brisbane)
- 2000: Silver Medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- 2001: Wins the Pan American Cup (Jamaica)
- 2001: Champion of Champions Trophy (Netherlands)
- 2001: Champion of the Three Nations Cup-Spain Netherlands Argentina (Argentina)
- 2002: Runners in the Champions Trophy Macao 2002 (China)
- 2002: Champion of the World Championships (Perth)
- 2003: Champion of the Euro with the Rotterdam (Netherlands)
- 2003: Gold medal at the 2003 Pan American Games (Santo Domingo)
- 2004: 2nd place four nations tournament Córdoba (Argentina)
- 2004: Bronze medal at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games
- 2004: 3rd place in the Champions Trophy (Argentina)
Individual
- 1995 - Premio Clarín Revelation (Hockey)
- 1997 - Top scorer in the junior Pan American Championship in Chile
- 1998 - Premio Clarín Consecration (Hockey)
- 2000 - Olimpia Award (Hockey) (National Team)
- 2001 - Pan American Cup scorer of Kingston, Jamaica
- 2002 - Best player of the tournament (Champions Trophy in Macau)
- 2002 - World's Best Player
- 2002 - Premio Clarín Consecration (Hockey)
- 2002 - Olimpia Award (Hockey)
- 2002 - Olympia Gold Award (Best Athlete of the Year)
References
Portions based on a translation from Spanish Wikipedia
External links
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Awards | ||
|---|---|---|
Preceded by Luciana Aymar |
WorldHockey Player of the Year 2002 |
Succeeded by Mijntje Donners |
| Preceded by José Cóceres |
Olimpia de Oro 2002 |
Succeeded by Manu Ginóbili |