The Argentine women’s field hockey team beat South Korea 4-0 on Saturday, in their debut at the XV Spain-Netherlands World Cup, where they are looking for the third title in their rich history, and this Sunday they will have their second match against the local Spain at the Olympic Stadium in the city of Terrassa.
Las Leonas will play from 4:30 p.m., and the game can be followed by the ESPN signal and the Star + platform.
The world champions in Perth 2002 and Rosario 2010 prevailed in their presentation at the Olympic Stadium in the Catalan city of Terrassa with two goals from Agustina Gorzelany, one from Victoria Granatto and another from Julieta Jankunasin a match corresponding to Group C of the tournament.
The Argentines opened the scoring after 4 minutes, with a goal from Agustina Gorzelany in the first penalty corner of the game and a great drag against an angle of the rival goal.
Gorzelany herself was effective in scoring practically the same goal – strong at the top corner to the left of the goalkeeper – in the second short shot that those directed by Fernando Ferrara had, at 28 minutes.
The third for Las Leonas came in the 30th minute, when the first half was ending, also after a penalty corner, but through Victoria Granatto who connected after a series of rebounds. Argentina scored the fourth in the third quarter through Julieta Jankunas, who shot the short and went to look for the rebound that the Korean goalkeeper gave.
END of the MATCH and WIN for #The lioness in the DEBUT against Korea.
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— ARG Field Hockey (@ArgFieldHockey) July 2, 2022
The lioness They will play again this Sunday, at 4:30 p.m., against the local team and next Thursday they will do so against Canada, starting at 1:00 p.m., in their last match for the qualifying phase. All the games of the Argentine team can be followed on one of the ESPN signals and the Star + platform.
In Terrassa, a city located 30 kilometers from Barcelona, Spain opened Group C on Friday, with a 4-1 victory against Canada.
“It wasn’t noticeable but I was nervous. Happy for this result and for the team. It’s the first tournament of several so I was nervous but now it makes me very excited. We have to continue because Spain is coming and it’s going to be a very hard”, declared Gorzelany, distinguished as a figure of the match against the Koreans, to ESPN.
“Happy for this result and for the team. It’s the first tournament of several so I was nervous but now I’m very excited”Augustine Gorzelany
The 26-year-old player wearing jersey number 3 had been the top scorer in the FIH Pro League, the annual national team tournament that Las Leonas won this year undefeated (13 wins and three draws in 16 games). Gorzelany was the top scorer with 12 points, Argentina was the team with the highest scorer (43) and finished with the second least defeated goal (18).
Las Leonas, silver medalist in the last Olympic Games in Tokyo, arrived at the World Cup with a very good sporting record this year, as they were champions of the Pan American Cup in Chile, where they got a ticket to the World Cup, and recently won the FIH Pro League.
World Cup Spain-Netherlands 2022
The Spain-Netherlands 2022 World Cup is structured in four zones of four teams and will develop its first phase until Thursday. The winners of each group will advance directly to the quarterfinals.instance in which they will face the winners of a playoff between the second and third.
Group A, made up of the Netherlands, Chile, Germany and Ireland, and Group B, made up of China, England, India and New Zealand, will be based in the municipality of Amstelveen, north of Amsterdam; while C (Argentina, Spain, Canada and Korea) and D (Australia, Belgium, Japan and South Africa) will be held in Terrassa.
That same Catalan city, which will host two quarterfinal matches, will remain as the final venue for the World Cup from the semifinals, with the duel for the title scheduled for Sunday 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Argentina.
The Netherlands is the winner of the last two editions (The Hague 2014 and London 2018) and the gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games last year.
The Dutch are the top winners of the specialty World Championship with eight titles, as well as four second places and one third place. Argentina follows him in the medal table with two coronations (Perth 2002 and Rosario 2010), three silvers (Mandelieu -France- ’74, Berlin ’76 and Dublin ’94) and another three bronzes (Madrid ’78 and 2006 and The Hague 2014) .
Meanwhile, in eight Olympic participations, Las Leonas obtained five medals and three diplomas: silver medal in Sydney 2000, London 2012 and Tokyo 2020; bronze in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, and seventh place in Seoul 88, Atlanta 1996 and Rio 2016.
