Magdalena Aicega
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María Magdalena Aicega Amicarelli (born November 1, 1973 in Buenos Aires
) is a field hockey
defender from Argentina
, who won the silver medal with the Women's National Team
at the 2000 Summer Olympics
in Sydney, Australia. Nickname
d Magui, she first represented her native country at the Junior World Cup in 1993 in Barcelona, Spain, where Argentina won gold. The following year the penalty corner hitter played for the senior team, finishing second at the World Cup in Dublin, Ireland.
Aicega was awarded the Silver Olimpia, the most prestigious local prize awarded by Argentina's Sports Journalists Association, in 1998 and 2003. She was also nominated for the FIH
's Best Player of the Year in 1999, won by Australia
's Alyson Annan
.
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
) is a field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
defender from Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, who won the silver medal with the Women's National Team
Las Leonas
Argentina national women's field hockey team represents Argentina in women's field hockey. They are also known by the nickname Las Leonas, meaning "The Lionesses"...
at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000 Summer Olympics
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
in Sydney, Australia. Nickname
Nickname
A nickname is "a usually familiar or humorous but sometimes pointed or cruel name given to a person or place, as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name.", or a name similar in origin and pronunciation from the original name....
d Magui, she first represented her native country at the Junior World Cup in 1993 in Barcelona, Spain, where Argentina won gold. The following year the penalty corner hitter played for the senior team, finishing second at the World Cup in Dublin, Ireland.
Aicega was awarded the Silver Olimpia, the most prestigious local prize awarded by Argentina's Sports Journalists Association, in 1998 and 2003. She was also nominated for the FIH
International Hockey Federation
The International Field Hockey Federation is the global governing body of field hockey...
's Best Player of the Year in 1999, won by Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
's Alyson Annan
Alyson Annan
Alyson Regina Annan OAM in Wentworthville, New South Wales is a former field hockey player from Australia, who earned a total number of 228 international caps for the Women's National Team, in which she scored 166 goals....
.