there Ain’t no
stoppinG AymAr
argentinean, luciana aymar will be the star of beijing
The attacking midfielder is one of the best training sessions with the national team. The
athletes and most gifted players in world training sessions started at 8am, so she had
hockey. Since making her senior debut at to get up at 3am. And the Argentine Field
the 1998 World Cup, she has won a silver Hockey Confederation never helped her with
and bronze Olympic medal (’00 and ’04) a fares or lodgings.
gold, two silver and a bronze at
the Champions Trophy (’01, ’02,
’07, ‘04) and a gold at the Pan
American Games in ‘99.
She is the only player to receive
the FIH World player of the year
award four times and is known
for her ability to beat opposing
players using her strong dribbling
skills, for which she has been
compared with Argentine football
legend Diego Maradona.
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It’s no surprise her nickname is
The Magician and it’s no surprise
she shows guts, daring and
determination on the pitch – in 1993 she was Her ex-coach, Sergio Vigil, described
travelling three and a half hours by bus to working with Aymar in 2001: “What Luciana
does on the field is a poem. Training her is

a pleasure, because she’s also an excellent
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person which is more valuable than the
player. On the bench we marvel every time
she gets the ball and starts beating rivals.
With her ability she breaks up defences and

creates spaces like nobody else. In future
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we have to make more use of her great ball
control. That’s why we give her more liberty.
With three forwards to accompany her she
can create disasters.”
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