How the selected one arrived at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games

The 2000 Sydney Olympic Games will be marked for the entire vineFor the sacrifice that each of the 16 players and the entire coaching staff had, for the first Olympic medal in the history of Argentine hockey and for the birth of “Las Lasonas”. But how did the Argentine team arrived at those games? What results did they get in their last tournaments?

As some of the protagonists such as Vanina Oneto or Mariela Antoniska said, weeks before the Olympic Games had a tour of New Zealand that did not result at all well (Argentina played a series of friendlies against the premises, and lost each of the matches, the last 5 to 0). However, not everything was bad in the previous one to the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. To talk about how the selected one arrived at the Games, you can go back to four years before after the 1996 ATLANTA JJOO.

A year earlier -in 1999-, the national team (which still did not have the nickname of “Las Leonas”) Brisbane Champions Trophy (Australia) and the Winnipeg Pan American Games (Canada). In the first event appointed in Fourth LugaA, with a record of two wins, a draw and three losses in six meetings, And in the tournament played in North America he kept the gold (Seven victories in seven games, 28 goals in favor and only four against).

In 1998, Argentina also fourth in a contest, on that occasion in the Utrecht World Cup (Netherlands). There he played the seven games of the tournament, won in four, tied in one and fell into two. The year 1997 It was little filming since he did not classify the Champions Trophy. Without a doubt, despite the “bad blood” for the last tour with New Zealand prior to Sydney 2000, In the previous years and tournaments it was already felt that something was brewing: the beginning of a historical moment.