Lucas Vila, Olympic champion with Los Leones in Rio 2016, announced his retirement from the national team
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“The World Cup is over and personally, my career in the lions! Proud and grateful for everything I was able to experience with this beautiful shirt”, Lucas Vila started his post on social networks, with which he bids farewell to the Argentine field hockey team. He thanked family and friends who always supported him and made it clear that from now on he will be “one more fan of Los Leones.”
The striker, Olympic champion at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, closed a long period in the Argentine team with the last game against Wales in the World Cup held in India.
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“El Colo”, 36 years old, closed a campaign of 274 games and 97 goals in Los Leones, with whom he was also a bronze medalist in the Champions Trophy Rotterdam 2008 and in the World Cup The Hague 2014.
Heir to his grandfather’s and father’s passion for hockey, Vila was linked to this sport at Club Banco Provincia as a child and had his first strong experience in 2005 when he became the Under 21 world champion with Argentina in the Netherlands.
The following year, he began his extensive career in the senior team, which he shared at different stages with his brothers Rodrigo and Matías. He participated in five World Cups, three Olympic Games and was a three-time champion of the Pan American Games (Guadalajara 2011, Toronto 2015 and Lima 2019).
In February of last year, Vila had announced his departure from the team but in September he returned with a view to the 2022 Odesur Asunción Games and the 2023 India World Cup in which Argentina finished in ninth position.
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