Great day for our male national delegation! In the morning hours of this Sunday, May 8, those led by Ricardo Azcurra beat the combined Bolivia 13-0 and took over the bronze medal of hockey 5 of the South American Youth Games 2022.
The golea appeared through Felipe Richard (5), who was also in charge of opening the score, León Taladriz (1), Mateo Perret (3), Javier Vargas (2), Sebastian Loehnert (1) and Vicente Wilhelmy (1).
To get to this instance, the Diablitos had to compete intensively during the last 4 days, accumulating two victories (in front of Bolivia and Brazil), two defeats (Argentina and Brazil in semis) and today's victory that gave them the third place of the hockistic competition.
Meanwhile, in the first two positions with gold and silver medal were located the selections of Argentina and Brazil, respectively.
"The format of hockey 5 is going to be very important in the future, it has a very nice game for all categories except adults because it is quite demanding as to the amount of difinitions there, but it is a nice competition," said Ricardo Azcurra about the dynamism and intensity with which this particular tournament was experienced.
In this way, Chile continues to give what to talk about in a year that has been fantastic and historic for hockey and for the sport in general of our country.
On the part of the Board and of all the administrative team that forms the Chilean Hockey Federation on Cesped, we would like to extend our congratulations to all the players and technical body that represented us in Rosario. They're our pride!
