Luciana Aymar, Hockey Player, - Biography
Skier
Height 1.72m
Born August 10, 1977, Rosario, Argentina
Luciana Aymar
Nickname
Lucha, La Maga
Position Attack
Luciana Paula Aymar is an Argentine field hockey professional. She plays as an attacker, & is the only player to receive the FIH World player of the year award three times. She is known for her ability to beat opposing players using her strong dribbling skills, for which she has been compared with Argentine football (soccer) legend Diego Maradona.
Lucha Aymar started playing at age seven at the local Fisherton Club in Rosario, moving to Jockey Club de Rosario six years later. She began training with the junior national team, for which she had to travel every other day to Buenos Aires. In 1997 she was part of the side which won the Pan American Games Junior Championship, & a year later had her debut with the senior team, finishing fourth at the World Cup.
Aymar is part of a generation in Argentine hockey that has won several international tournaments from the 1999 Pan American Games on, including a Olympic silver medal, & a Champions Trophy. Nicknamed La Maga ("The Magician"), her outstanding performances have driven her to be chosen as the FIH player of the year three times, once more than hockey legend Alyson Annan.
She was offered US$20,000 to be in the cover of the Argentina
Playboy Magazine, but turned it down.
She is currently dating an Argentine
Model called Mario she met on September 2006.
Titles
Titles with the
national or junior national teams unless otherwise specified.
1997 - Gold
medal at the Junior Pan American Games (held in Chile)
1997 - Bronze medal
at the Junior World Cup (Korea)
1998 - European club championship (with Rot
Weiss Köln, from Germany)
1999 - Gold medal at the Pan American Games
(Winnipeg, Canada)
2000 - Silver medal at the Olympic Games (Sydney, Australia)
2001 - Gold medal at the Champions Trophy (Amstelveen, Netherlands)
2002
- Silver medal at the Champions Trophy (Macau, China)
2002 - Gold medal at
the World Cup (Perth, Australia)
2003 - Gold medal at the Pan American Games
(Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
2004 - Bronze medal at the Olympic Games
(Athens, Greece)
2004 - Bronze medal at the Champions Trophy (Rosario, Argentina)
2006 - Bronze medal at the World Cup (Madrid, Spain)
2007 - Silver medal
at the Champions Trophy (Quilmes, Argentina)
Awards & distinctions
2000
- Champions Trophy's player of the tournament
2001 - FIH World's Best Player
of the Year
2001 - Champions Trophy's player of the tournament
2004 -
FIH World's Player of the Year
2005 - FIH World's Player of the Year
This
site was written in August 2007
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