Argentina women's national field hockey team
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| Nickname | Las Leonas (The Lionesses) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Association | Confederación Argentina de Hockey (CAH) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Confederation | PAHF (Americas) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Gabriel Minadeo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach | Agustín Corradini | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Matías Vila | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Captain | Carla Rebecchi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Most caps | Luciana Aymar (376) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top scorer | Noel Barrionuevo (167) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIH ranking | 3 
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2000 Sydney | Team |
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2004 Athens | Team |
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2008 Beijing | Team |
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2012 London | Team |
The Argentina women's national field hockey team (Spanish: Selección femenina de hockey sobre césped de Argentina) represents Argentina in international field hockey competitions.
The governing body is the Argentine Hockey Confederation (CAH). The current coach is Gabriel Minadeo, who was appointed after the resignation of Santiago Capurro in October 2015, and the team is currently third in the FIH World Rankings since August 2016 after their 7th place at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Las Leonas (The Lionesses) have appeared in five Hockey World Cup finals, including the first final in 1974, which they lost 1–0 to the Netherlands. Argentina had to settle with second place in two more finals before winning the tournament for the first time in 2002, beating the Netherlands 4–3 in the final on penalty strokes after a 1–1 draw. Argentina, led by eight-time FIH Player of the Year Luciana Aymar won again in 2010, a 3–1 victory over the Netherlands. Argentina's World Cup winning managers are Sergio Vigil in 2002, and Carlos Retegui in 2010.
Argentina has been very successful at the Summer Olympics, winning four consecutive medals (two silver, two bronze) since the 2000 edition, when they became the first women's team in any sport to win an Olympic medal for their country. Luciana Aymar is the only player that has participated and won those four medals. Also, after their first title in 2001 at a Champions Trophy, they have won the tournament six more times. In front of a home crowd they won the 2014–15 World League as the first international title after Aymar's retirement from the national team the previous year.
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