The team thus began its participation in the XV Spain-Netherlands World Cup, to be played until July 17, in search of its third star in the history of the discipline.
The Lionesses, champions for the last time in Rosario 2010 and for the first time two decades ago in Perth (Australia), will face South Korea from 1:00 p.m. in Argentina at the Olympic Stadium in the Catalan city of Terrassa.
The match will correspond to Group C, which opened on Friday with a 4-1 victory for local Spain against Canada.
The Lionesses will play again tomorrow, Sunday, at 4:30 p.m., against the local team and next Thursday they will do so against Canada, starting at 1:00 p.m., in their last match for the qualifying phase.
All the games of the Argentine team can be followed on one of the ESPN signals and the Star + platform.
The Spain-Netherlands World Cup is structured in four zones of four teams and will develop its first phase until Thursday. The winners of each group will advance directly to the quarterfinals, in which they will face the winners of a playoff between the second and third.
Group A, made up of the Netherlands, Chile, Germany and Ireland, and Group B, made up of China, England, India and New Zealand, will be based in the municipality of Amstelveen, north of Amsterdam; while C (Argentina, Spain, Canada and Korea) and D (Australia, Belgium, Japan and South Africa) will take place in Terrassa, 30 kilometers from Barcelona.
That same Catalan city, which will host two quarterfinal matches, will remain as the final venue for the World Cup from the semifinals, with the duel for the title scheduled for Sunday the 17th, at 4:30 p.m. in Argentina.
Las Leonas come to the competition with a very good sporting background this year, as they were champions of the Pan American Cup in Chile, where they got a ticket to the World Cup, and recently won the FIH Pro League undefeated (13 wins and three draws in 16 matches).
In that tournament played as a prologue to the World Cup, Argentina -Olympic runner-up- was the team with the highest scorer (43), had the highest scorer (Agustina Gorzelany, 12) and finished with the second least defeated goal (18).
The top hockey figures consulted by Télam this week agreed that the team led by Fernando Ferrara will present themselves with firm aspirations to repeat the glory achieved in 2002 and 2010.
“Argentina has a great team. There is a good complement between experience and youth. This team has a spirit of conquest and a silent conviction. It is ready to get a new gold in the World Cup”, confided Sergio “Cachito” Vigil, driver of the first consecration in Perth, two years after the silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Carlos “Chapa” Retegui, coach of the second title in Rosario, was even more forceful: “Argentina is a candidate to win the World Cup. If I say that they have to be world champions it is because they are benches. They are Olympic runners-up and winners of the ProLeague”.
Luciana Aymar from Rosario, eight times chosen as the best player in the world by the International Hockey Federation (FIH), quadruple Olympic medalist and two-time world champion, also opted for Las Leonas.
“Argentina has all the attitude to be able to shine. It is a team that can perfectly win the World Cup. It is compact, it has very good players and it is very even in its lines. I see great possibilities for it,” said “Lucha”.
Despite the trust placed in the “albiceleste” team, the greatest favoritism falls on the Netherlands, winner of the last two editions (The Hague 2014 and London 2018) and gold medalist at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games last year.
The Dutch are the top winners of the specialty World Championship with eight titles, as well as four second places and one third place. Argentina follows him in the medal table with two coronations (Perth 2002 and Rosario 2010), three silvers (Mandelieu -France- ’74, Berlin ’76 and Dublin ’94) and another three bronzes (Madrid ’78 and 2006 and The Hague 2014) .
Source: Ambito
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