Leoncitos are champions of the JR Pan American Games!

Leoncitos are Pan American Champions. Those led by Juan Ignacio Gilardi won 4 to 2 to Canada with goals from Mateo Torrigiani, Tomás Ruiz, Nicolás Rodríguez and Bruno Correa. In addition, for having achieved gold in this contest they obtained The benefit of classifying the older Pan American Games, which will be played in Lima in 2027.

The first goal for Argentina It wouldn’t take long to arrive, because Torrigiani (14´) He received a Flick inside the area, settled back and pulled out a sablazo to put the world champions up on the scoreboard in 2021. On the closure of the first half, the captain Ruiz (27´) He took the short corner post and with his dragged phenomenal marked 2 to 0.

In the second half, The leancitos did not lower their foot of the accelerator: They put 3 to 0 and 4 to 0 in the third quarter, thanks to the goals of Nicolás Rodríguez (36´) and Bruno Correa (45´)the scorer, penalty. In the end, Canada found 4 to 1 and 4 to 2 in the absence of seven minutes to finish the match and the second when there were seven seconds, respectively. Both goals were scored by Leighton de Souza (53´ and 60´).

This title won from end to end can also be seen in statistics: Not only is it the only team that did not receive goals throughout the tournamentif not too is the one that marked the most (35). Added to this, The leoncitos have the four top scorers of the contest With Bruno Corrara (12 goals), Santiago Fernández (8), Nicolás Rodríguez (7) and Mateo Torrigiani (6).

Regarding bronze, The JR devils did not give chance to the United States and the third place medal were hung. Chile went out to the field in search of getting on the podium and the set of bars and stars felt it. First it was Tomás Hasson (8 ‘) At the beginning of the game, after Vicente Wilhelmy (16 ‘) He stretched the advantage before the halftime and thus the trans -Andeans were outlined to keep the match.

Those of North America would not make it so easyafter the long descent, his captain, Mehtab Grewal (33 ‘) He changed a short corner by goal and put his team in a game; But not for much, The devils did not regulate in efforts and left more. They had to wait until the last quarter, there their rivals were obliged to match if they wanted to stay with medal possibilities, at that time they were the Chileans who advanced and, with Javier Vargas (56 ‘)they decreed on 3 to 1. did not end there, missing two minutes to the end, the United States put a goal with Charles Webb (59 ‘) and, immediately, Latin Americans with Felipe Duisberg (59 ‘)they placed the 4 to 2 final.