Argentina men's national field hockey team

Argentina
Nickname	Los Leones (The Lions)
Association	Confederación Argentina de Hockey (CAH)
Confederation	PAHF (Americas)
Coach	Germán Orozco
Assistant coach(es)	Tomás MacCormik; Matías Vila
Manager	Martín Elli
Captain	Pedro Ibarra
Most caps	Matías Paredes (328)
Top scorer	Jorge Lombi (341)
Home	Away
FIH ranking
Current	5 1 (1 March 2020)
Highest	1 (April 2017 – October 2017)
Lowest	14 (2009)
Olympic Games
Appearances	12 (first in 1948)
Best result	1st (2016)
World Cup
Appearances	13 (first in 1971)
Best result	3rd (2014)
Pan American Games
Appearances	14 (first in 1967)
Best result	1st (10 times)
Pan American Cup
Appearances	5 (first in 2000)
Best result	1st (2004, 2013, 2017)
Olympic Games
World Cup
Pan American Games
Pan American Cup
Champions Trophy
World League
South American Games
South American Championship

The Argentina national field hockey team, (Spanish: Selección masculina de hockey sobre césped de Argentina) represents Argentina in field hockey and is governed by the Argentine Hockey Confederation (CAH). The current coach is Germán Orozco, who was appointed after the resignation of previous coach Carlos Retegui in 2018, and the team is currently fourth in the FIH World Rankings since December 2018 after their 7th place at the 2018 Hockey World Cup.

Los Leones (The Lions) are the only team of the Americas to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games. They achieved this after defeating Belgium 4–2 in the final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^[2] Argentina's Olympic gold-winning coach is Carlos Retegui.

Argentina has appeared in every Men's Hockey World Cup, since the first edition in 1973, except the 1998 Men's Hockey World Cup. They won the bronze medal at the 2014 World Cup in The Hague, their best position in the tournament. They also obtained a bronze medal at the 2008 Hockey Champions Trophy and a silver medal at the 2016–17 Hockey World League.

At a continental level, Argentina is the most winning team in the Americas, having dominated most tournaments they played, including three gold medals at the Men's Pan American Cup and ten gold medals at the Pan American Games.

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.^[3]

HistoryEdit

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 a coach.

In 2013, during the World League Semifinals in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, the team along with coach Carlos Retegui decide to name themselves Los Leones (The Lions), matching the nickname chosen by the women's team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Argentina didn't have great performances at the Summer Olympics until they won the gold medal at the 2016 edition by defeating Belgium 4–2, when they became the first national hockey team to win that prize for their country.

Los Leones in 2015.

Competitive recordEdit

Summer OlympicsEdit

Summer Olympics record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D *	L	GF	GA	Squad
1908 until 1936	Did not participate
1948	Group stage	5th	3	1	1	1	5	12	Squad
1952 until 1964	Did not participate
1968	13th place game	14th	8	1	1	6	4	22	Squad
1972	13th place game	14th	8	0	3	5	4	10	Squad
1976	Cross-over	11th	6	1	0	5	6	15	Squad
1980	Withdrew
1984	Did not participate
1988	7th place game	8th	7	2	1	4	15	22	Squad
1992	11th place game	11th	7	2	0	5	14	20	Squad
1996	9th place game	9th	7	3	1	3	16	19	Squad
2000	7th place game	8th	7	1	2	4	16	22	Squad
2004	11th place game	11th	7	1	2	4	13	19	Squad
2008	Did not qualify
2012	9th place game	10th	6	1	1	4	11	17	Squad
2016	Final	1st	8	5	2	1	25	17	Squad
2020	Qualified
Total	1 title	12/24	74	18	14	42	129	195

World CupEdit

FIH World Cup record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D *	L	GF	GA	Squad
1971	9th place game	10th	5	0	0	5	1	11	N/A
1973	9th place game	9th	7	2	3	2	5	9
1975	11th place game	11th	7	3	1	3	15	17
1978	7th place game	8th	8	2	2	4	12	18
1982	11th place game	12th	7	1	0	6	9	21
1986	5th place game	6th	7	2	1	4	8	10
1990	9th place game	9th	7	3	1	3	15	15
1994	7th place game	7th	7	2	3	2	13	13
1998	Did not qualify
2002	5th place game	6th	9	6	0	3	23	18	Squad
2006	9th place game	10th	7	2	1	4	9	16	Squad
2010	7th place game	7th	6	3	0	3	13	13	Squad
2014	3rd place game	3rd	7	5	0	2	18	10	Squad
2018	Quarter-finals	7th	4	2	0	2	12	11	Squad
2023	To be determined
Total	3rd place	13/14	88	33	12	43	153	182

Pan American GamesEdit

Pan American Games record
Year	Position
1967	1st
1971	1st
1975	1st
1979	1st
1983	2nd
1987	2nd
1991	1st
1995	1st
1999	2nd
2003	1st
2007	2nd
2011	1st
2015	1st
2019	1st
Best result: 1st place

Pan American CupEdit

Pan American Cup record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D *	L	GF	GA
2000	3rd place game	3rd	7	5	1	1	68	5
2004	Final	1st	7	7	0	0	68	3
2009	3rd place game	3rd	5	4	0	1	40	4
2013	Final	1st	5	5	0	0	62	2
2017	Final	1st	5	5	0	0	37	3
2021	Qualified
Total	3 titles	6/6	29	26	1	2	275	17

South American GamesEdit

South American Games record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
2006	Final	1st	5	4	1	0	37	0
2014	Final	1st	6	6	0	0	66	8
2018	Final	1st	5	5	0	0	26	2
2022	Qualified
Total	3 titles	4/4	16	15	1	0	129	10

South American ChampionshipEdit

South American Championship^[4]
Year	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
2003	1st	5	5	0	0	71	4
2008	1st	6	6	0	0	41	1
2010	1st	6	6	0	0	54	1
2013	1st	6	6	0	0	69	5
2016	Did not participate
Total	4 titles	23	23	0	0	235	11

FIH Pro LeagueEdit

FIH Pro League record
Season	Position	Pld	W	D *	L	GF	GA	Squad
2019	5th	14	6	3	5	41	36	Squad
2020	Qualified							Squad
Total	Best: 5th	14	6	3	5	41	36

Sultan Azlan Shah CupEdit

Sultan Azlan Shah Cup record
Year	Position
2006	7th
2007	5th
2008	1st
2012	2nd
2018	3rd
Best result: 1st place

Defunct competitionsEdit

Champions TrophyEdit

Champions Trophy record
Year	Position	Pld	W	D *	L	GF	GA
1978 until 1986	Did not participate
1987	6th	7	2	2	3	6	15
1988 until 2002	Did not participate
2003	5th	6	3	0	3	20	24
2004	Did not participate
2005	Did not participate
2006	6th	6	0	1	5	6	19
2007	Did not participate
2008	3rd	6	3	2	1	12	9
2009 until 2012	Did not participate
2014	6th	6	3	0	3	12	14
2016	Did not participate
2018	4th	6	2	1	3	8	12
Total	3rd	37	13	6	18	64	93

Champions Challenge IEdit

Champions Challenge I record
Year	Position	Pld	W	D *	L	GF	GA
2001	3rd	6	4	0	2	14	10
2003	Did not participate
2005	1st	6	4	2	0	25	13
2007	1st	6	4	1	1	16	12
2009	4th	5	2	0	3	15	12
2011	4th	6	3	2	1	18	12
2012	1st	6	6	0	0	22	7
2014	Did not participate
Total	3 titles	35	23	5	7	110	66

Hockey World LeagueEdit

Hockey World League record
Season	Position	Round	Pld	W	D *	L	GF	GA
2012–13	8th	Round 2	5	5	0	0	38	4
		Semifinal	6	4	1	1	18	7
		Final	6	2	2	2	12	14
2014–15	5th	Semifinal	7	6	0	1	16	9
2014–15	5th	Final	5	3	0	2	13	8
2016–17	2nd	Semifinal	7	5	1	1	26	14
2016–17	2nd	Final	6	2	1	3	11	12
Total	2nd	Final	42	27	5	10	134	68

*Draws include matches decided on a penalty shoot-out.

TeamEdit

Current squadEdit

The following 18 players were named on 19 February 2020 for the FIH Pro League matches against New Zealand and Australia from 28 February to 7 March 2020.^[5]

Head coach: Germán Orozco

Caps updated as of 7 March 2020, after the match against Australia.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1	GK	Juan Manuel Vivaldi	(1979-07-17) 17 July 1979 (age 41)	282	Banco Provincia
3	GK	Emiliano Bosso	(1995-12-03) 3 December 1995 (age 24)	4	GEBA

4	DF	Juan Catán	(1995-10-05) 5 October 1995 (age 24)	21	Hurling
5	DF	Pedro Ibarra (Captain)	(1985-09-11) 11 September 1985 (age 35)	303	San Fernando
13	DF	Leandro Tolini	(1990-03-14) 14 March 1990 (age 30)	69	Gantoise
17	DF	Juan Martín López	(1985-05-27) 27 May 1985 (age 35)	309	Banco Provincia
18	DF	Federico Monja	(1993-09-12) 12 September 1993 (age 27)	13	Banco Provincia
24	DF	Nicolás Cicileo	(1993-10-01) 1 October 1993 (age 26)	56	Daring

16	MF	Ignacio Ortiz	(1987-07-26) 26 July 1987 (age 33)	168	Banco Provincia
28	MF	Federico Fernández	(1992-02-28) 28 February 1992 (age 28)	47	Tilburg
30	MF	Agustín Bugallo	(1995-04-23) 23 April 1995 (age 25)	76	HGC

7	FW	Nicolás Keenan	(1997-05-06) 6 May 1997 (age 23)	24	Klein Zwitserland
9	FW	Maico Casella	(1997-05-06) 6 May 1997 (age 23)	70	HGC
12	FW	Lucas Vila	(1986-08-23) 23 August 1986 (age 34)	249	Leuven
15	FW	Tomás Domene	(1997-09-04) 4 September 1997 (age 23)	25	Orée
19	FW	Tomás Bettaglio	(1991-09-23) 23 September 1991 (age 28)	30	Banco Provincia
23	FW	Lucas Martínez	(1993-11-17) 17 November 1993 (age 26)	71	Dragons
32	FW	Martín Ferreiro	(1997-10-21) 21 October 1997 (age 22)	51	Pinoké

Recent call-upsEdit

The following players have been called up for the national team in the last 12 months.

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club	Latest call-up
GK	Tomás Santiago	(1992-06-15) 15 June 1992 (age 28)	24	Gantoise	v. Netherlands, 16 February 2020

DF	Matías Rey	(1984-12-01) 1 December 1984 (age 35)	210	San Fernando	v. Netherlands, 16 February 2020

MF	Agustín Mazzilli	(1989-06-20) 20 June 1989 (age 31)	225	Pinoké	v. Netherlands, 16 February 2020
MF	Santiago Tarazona	(1996-05-31) 31 May 1996 (age 24)	57	GEBA	v. Spain, 8 February 2020
MF	Lucas Rossi	(1985-06-02) 2 June 1985 (age 35)	213	Beerschot	v. Belgium, 23 October 2019

FW	Mauro Coria	(1996-12-19) 19 December 1996 (age 23)	1	Mendoza	v. Netherlands, 16 February 2020
FW	Facundo Callioni	(1985-10-09) 9 October 1985 (age 34)	153	Orée	v. Canada, 29 January 2020
FW	Matías Paredes	(1982-02-01) 1 February 1982 (age 38)	356	Ducilo	2019 Pan American Games

Past playersEdit

CaptainsEdit

Period	Captain
2000–2004	Pablo Moreira
2005–2006	Germán Orozco
2007–2008	Mario Almada
2008–2013	Matías Vila
2013–2014	Lucas Rey
2014–2015	Matías Paredes
2015–Present	Pedro Ibarra

CoachesEdit

Period	Name
???–1983	Juan Carlos Duré
1983–1990	Luis Ciancia
1991–1992	Jorge Ruiz
1993–1996	Miguel MacCormik
1996–1999	Marcelo Garraffo
1999–2000	Alejandro Verga
2000–2005	Jorge Ruíz
2005–2008	Sergio Vigil
2008–2009	Carlos Retegui
2009–2012	Pablo Lombi
2012–2013	Franco Nicola
2013–2018	Carlos Retegui
2018–2020	Germán Orozco

ReferencesEdit

^ "FIH Men's and Women's World Ranking". FIH. 1 March 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "FIH confirms final line-ups for men's Hockey World League Semi-Finals". 3 April 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
^ "South American Championships – Final Standings". panamhockey.org. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
^ "Los Leones Para Afrontar La FIH Pro League en Oceanía". www.cahockey.org.ar (in Spanish). Confederación Argentina de Hockey. 19 February 2019. Retrieved 20 February 2020.

External linksEdit

[FIH_World_Rankings-1] "FIH Men's and Women's World Ranking". FIH. 1 March 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2020.

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] "FIH confirms final line-ups for men's Hockey World League Semi-Finals". 3 April 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2017.

[4] "South American Championships – Final Standings". panamhockey.org. Retrieved 28 December 2018.

[5] "Los Leones Para Afrontar La FIH Pro League en Oceanía". www.cahockey.org.ar (in Spanish). Confederación Argentina de Hockey. 19 February 2019. Retrieved 20 February 2020.

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