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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1994–1998 | Argentina U21 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1996–2014 | Argentina | 376 | (162) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Luciana Paula Aymar (born 10 August 1977) is a retired Argentine field hockey player.[1]
She is the only player in history to receive the FIH Player of the Year Award eight times,[2] and she is considered as the best female hockey player of all time.[3]
Aymar is known for her ability to beat opposing players using her pace and dribbling skills, drawing comparisons with Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona. For this reason she has received the nicknames "La Maga" ("The Magician"), "Diego" and "The Maradona Of Field 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. She gradually 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 Argentina junior team that won the Pan American Games Junior Championship, and a year later she made her debut for the Argentina senior team, and finished fourth at the 1998 Hockey World Cup. She was the youngest Argentine to be accepted into the squad at just 16.
Aymar was part of a generation in Argentine field hockey that went on to win several international tournaments from the 1999 Pan American Games onwards, including two Olympic silver medals, and six Champions Trophies. She was part of the squad that won the 2002 and 2010 Hockey World Cup, with the latter being held in her hometown Rosario.
Aymar carried the flag for her country at the opening ceremony of the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, in London, England.
In the 2012 Summer Olympics Luciana became the second Argentine to achieve 4 medals, the other being Carlos Mauricio Espínola.[4]
Awards and honours
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, 2014), Silver Medal (2002, 2007, 2011), Bronze Medal (2004)
- World Cup: Gold Medal (2002, 2010), Bronze Medal (2006, 2014)
Club
- European Club Championship: 1998
Individual
- Champions Trophy's Player of the Tournament (9): 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014
- 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
- ↑ "Lucha Aymar Bio, Stats, and Results - Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". Retrieved 2014-12-05.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ es:Carlos Mauricio Espínola
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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