Luciana Aymar

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Luciana Aymar
Aymar in 2010
Personal information
Full name Luciana Paula Aymar
Born (1977-08-10) 10 August 1977 (age 46)
Rosario, Argentina
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Youth career
Fisherton
Jockey Club de Rosario
Senior career
Years Team
1998 Rot-Weiss Köln
1999 Real Club de Polo
2000–2007 Quilmes
2008–2011 GEBA
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994–1998 Argentina U21
1998–2014 Argentina 376 (162)
Medal record
Women's field hockey
Representing  Argentina
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney Team
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Team
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens Team
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing Team
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2002 Perth Team
Gold medal – first place 2010 Rosario Team
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Madrid Team
Bronze medal – third place 2014 The Hague Team
Champions Trophy
Gold medal – first place 2001 Amstelveen Team
Gold medal – first place 2008 Mönchengladbach Team
Gold medal – first place 2009 Sydney Team
Gold medal – first place 2010 Nottingham Team
Gold medal – first place 2012 Rosario Team
Gold medal – first place 2014 Mendoza Team
Silver medal – second place 2002 Macau Team
Silver medal – second place 2007 Quilmes Team
Silver medal – second place 2011 Amstelveen Team
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Rosario Team
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 1999 Winnipeg Team
Gold medal – first place 2003 Santo Domingo Team
Gold medal – first place 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team
Silver medal – second place 2011 Guadalajara Team
Pan American Cup
Gold medal – first place 2001 Kingston Team
Gold medal – first place 2004 Bridgetown Team
Gold medal – first place 2013 Mendoza Team
Junior World Cup
Bronze medal – third place 1997 Seongnam Team

Luciana Paula Aymar (Spanish pronunciation: [luˈsjana ajˈmaɾ]; born 10 August 1977) is an Argentine retired 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][4][5] In 2010 she was granted the Platinum Konex Award as the best Hockey player of the last decade in Argentina.[6]

Luciana is known for her ability to beat opposing players using her pace and dribbling skills, drawing comparisons with Argentine footballer Diego Maradona. For this reason she has received the nicknames "La Maga" ("The Magician") and "The Maradona of Field Hockey".

Aymar was the

flag bearer for Argentina at the 2012 Summer Olympics, becoming the second field hockey athlete being honoured this way after Marcelo Garraffo
.

Personal life

Aymar was born to René Aymar and Nilda Vicente de Aymar. She has 3 siblings in Her family: Cintia Aymar, Lucas Aymar and Fernando Aymar. Since 2017, Aymar had been in a relationship with former Chilean professional tennis player Fernando González,[7] and they have two children: a son, Félix, born in 2019,[8] and a daughter, Lupe, born in 2021.[9]

Career

Luciana started playing at age seven for Club Atlético Fisherton in her native

Argentina senior team, finishing fourth at the 1998
Hockey World Cup. She was the youngest Argentine to be accepted into the squad when she was 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 four Olympic 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
.

In 2008, Luciana was declared Legend of Hockey by International Hockey Federation.

She was the flag bearer for her country at the opening ceremony of the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and at the London 2012 Summer Olympics.

In the 2012 Summer Olympics Luciana became the second Argentine to achieve 4 medals, the first being sportsman Carlos Espínola.[10]

Luciana played her last international game with Argentina on Sunday 7 December 2014, in the city of Mendoza, Argentina, winning her sixth Champions Trophy.

Awards and honours

International

Argentina Junior
  • Pan American Games: Gold Medal (1997)
  • Junior World Cup: Bronze Medal (1997)
Argentina

Club

Rot-Weiss Köln
  • European Club Championship: 1998
Real Club de Polo de Barcelona
  • Copa de la Reina: 2004
GEBA
  • Liga Nacional: 2008, 2009
  • Torneo Metropolitano: 2008, 2009

Individual

  • Champions Trophy's Player of the Tournament: 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014
  • FIH Player of the Year: 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013
  • World Cup
    's Player of the Tournament: 2002, 2010

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lucha Aymar". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2014-12-05.
  2. ^ "Amazing Aymar lands eighth FIH Player of the Year crown". 2013-12-08. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
  3. ^ "Luciana Aymar, otra vez la reina del planeta". Cancha Llena (in Spanish). 2010-11-12. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
  4. The Telegraph
    .
  5. ^ "Luciana Aymar, the all time greatest hockey player..." Archived from the original on 2016-12-26. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
  6. ^ "Luciana Aymar - Premio Konex de Platino 2010" (in Spanish). 2010-11-11. Retrieved 2010-11-11.
  7. ^ "Fernando González y Luciana Aymar confirmaron su romance en revista". cooperativa.cl (in Spanish). Radio Cooperativa. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  8. ^ "Nació Félix, el hijo de Luciana Aymar y Fernando González". Infobae (in Spanish). 4 January 2020. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  9. ^ "Luciana Aymar anuncia el nacimiento de su segundo hijo con Fernando González". El Mercurio (in Spanish). 11 September 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
  10. ^ es:Carlos Mauricio Espínola

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