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Cecilia Rognoni

Cecilia Rognoni
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Personal information
Full name María Cecilia Rognoni
Born (1976-12-01) December 1, 1976 (age 40)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 5 12 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
Last updated on: April 26th, 2013

María Cecilia Rognoni (born December 1, 1976 in Buenos Aires) is a retired Argentine field hockey player, who won the 2002 World Cup in 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.

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, the 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". She came back to the team in 2010 under Carlos Retegui coaching but was forced to leave the team due knee injuries.

She also played for Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires and HC Rotterdam in the Netherlands.


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