ARGENTINA MAKE DEBUT WITH DEMOLISHING VICTORY The women’s Argentine team had no problems to defeat Brazil 10-0 in the last match of the second day of the 8th South American Games (ODESUR) at the Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires on Friday. As it was expected Argentina kept the pace from the very start, while Brazil only produced some sporadic attacks, which never worried the local team back row. Salta’s Gabriela Aguirre opened the score, in the second minute, from a corner deflection and increased the gap, three minutes later, from a corner rebound. In the 23rd, Rosario's Marien Bianchini put her team 3-0 ahead also from a penalty corner, and Aguirre again converted in the 29th and 34th minutes to go to break leading 5-0. Argentina did not change their scheme after half-time to net five goals more through Rosario Luchetti, in the 47th minute; Silvina D’Elía, in the 50th; Yanina Rojas in the 58th, Giselle Kañevsky in the 64th and Agustina Bouza, a minute before the final whistle. In spite of Argentina got 25 penalty corners throughout the match, the excellent performance by Brazilian goalie Nadja Fawakhiri, helped by some good defensive job from the back row prevented more goals. “These matches are very good for this group as there are many girls without international experience. It will be useless to analyze the game, but it is important for the new girls”, said the Argentine coach Gabriel Minadeo. “It was a great challenge to respect our technical level. Our goal was to be accurate in the passes and to net goals from penalty corners, and I believe we did it”, he concluded. The previous match between Paraguay and Uruguay was cancelled due to Paraguay did not travel because of financial problems. Argentina: Aladro; Pallitto, Bianchini, S. D’Elía,, Kañesvky; Luchetti, F. D’Elía, Silva; Aguirre, Rebecchi and Bouza. Also played: Rojas, Rubin and Barrionuevo. Coach: Gabriel Minadeo. Brazil: Fawakhiri; Ferraro, Prestes, Bonifacino, Cabral; Neves, Bernardino, Stasi; Rodrigues, Kumvich and Machado. Also played: A. Flores, R. Flores, Steinhauser and Becerra. Coach: Claudio Rocha. Umpires: María Mongelos (Paraguay) and Maritza Pérez Castro (Uruguay).   | ||||||
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