Los Leones
 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Los Leones (The Lions) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Association | Confederación Argentina de Hockey (CAH) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Confederation | PAHF (Americas) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Carlos Retegui | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach | Rolando Rivero | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Javier Blanco | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Captain | Pedro Ibarra | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Most caps | Jorge Lombi (268) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top scorer | Jorge Lombi (341) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIH ranking | 1  (July 2017) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Olympic medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
 |
2016 Rio de Janeiro | Team |
The Argentina national field hockey team, (Spanish: Selección masculina de hockey sobre césped de Argentina) plays in sky blue and white jerseys, and is organised by the Argentine Hockey Confederation (CAH, from the Spanish: Confederación Argentina de Hockey).
The team is nickamed Los Leones (The Lions), falling in line with an unwritten Argentine tradition of naming national teams after big cats. The current coach is Carlos Retegui.
The team have appeared in every Hockey World Cup since the first edition in 1973. They reached the bronze medal at the 2014 World Cup in The Hague, their best position in the tournament. In 2014 Gonzalo Peillat was named FIH Young Player of the Year.
At a continental level, Argentina is the most winning team in the Americas, dominated and won every tournament they played, including three gold medals at the Pan American Cup and nine gold medals at the Pan American Games.
Argentina is also the only team of the Americas to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games. They achieved the victory during the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
In November 2015 Argentina reached a historic 5th place in the FIH World Rankings, only to be surpassed after their Olympic gold medal by reaching 1st place in April 2017.
The team won the bronze medal at the 2014 World Cup, being ranked 11th in the FIH World Rankings. They also won the bronze medal at the 2008 Champions Trophy, during Carlos Retegui's first period as coach.
...
Wikipedia