10 years since Argentina won Rising Star in both branches

This year is the 10th anniversary of a very important moment in Argentine hockey. In 2015, Gonzalo Peillat and Florencia Habif They received the Rising Star award, given to the best youth players (under-21) by the International Hockey Federation. An award that was only won on two other occasions by players from the same country.
In 2005, Maartje Goderie and Robert van der Horst from the Netherlands, and in 2019 Lalremsiami and Vivek Prasad India were the other two occasions where this occurred. Only once per category did it happen that the same player won two consecutive years, in the same years: Arthur van Doren (Belgium) and María José Granatto They won the award in 2016 and 2017.
Going back in time, Argentina is the only country that, together with the Netherlands and India, had two winners in the same shortlist in the same year. On the male side, Gonzalo Peillat was not only the first of the Albiceleste team, but the only one. While Florencia Habif was after Soledad García (2022 and 2004)and after her came Majo Granatto, as mentioned above, Lucina Von Der Heyde in 2018 and Zoe Díaz in 2024.
On the feminine side, Argentina is the country that has won the award the most timeswith a total of seven times, while on the male side, Germany He also won it seven times.
Among the Argentines who won an FIH award are: Max CaldasBest Coach in 2017 for the Netherlands men’s national team; Luciana Aymarwho won the Best Player award eight times, four in a row (2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 -shared with the Dutch Naomi Van As-, 2010, 2013); Cecilia Rognoni in 2002 and Delfina Merino in 2017, the same year as Granatto.
Among the names that won the Rising Star award are: Jamie Dwyer (Australia) in 2002, (he later won Best Player five times, three in a row), Florian Fuchs (Germany), Christopher Ruhr (Germany), Maartje Paumen (Netherlands), Anna Flanagan (Australia), Lily Owsley (Great Britain) and Maria Verschoor (Netherlands). To see the complete list click here.