2008 Indoor Pan American Cup
San Juan, Argentina
November 19-23

Evening

The first match of the day is between USA and Mexico women. Five minutes after the beginning of the match and USA scores their first goal. Although Mexico try hard, they cannot seem to pass the half line, and USA are managing the ball and score their second goal only thirteen minutes into the game. In the fourteenth minute, USA score for the fourth time.

Mexico cannot seem to find their way around USA. Excellent midfield dominance on behalf of USA, giving them the opportunity of entering the circle and score their fifth goal before ending the first half.

Six minutes into the second half and USA scores their seventh goal, continuously pressuring the Mexican defense. Mexico woke up in the last minute gaining two penalty corners only to end up in an eleventh goal for USA .


The second match of the day is between Chile and Peru women’s teams. The game is quite even, none of the teams has a clear advantage over the other, but Peru was lucky enough to gain a penalty stroke and open the score of the match.

The first half is almost finished when Chile scores in a penalty corner. With one minute to go for the ending of the first half where none of the two teams have clearly been superior, Chile had a good opportunity with a wonderful play starting in the midfield and ending in a goal.

The second half has started and the game continues quite equal, with both teams having the same chance of winning. Peru has tied the match in the first five minutes of the second half and the game continued to be very equal, but there are no dangerous plays in the circle with the exception of some penalty corner.


Argentina - Paraguay. The game has just started three minutes ago and ARG scored their goal in the first minutes of the game through a penalty corner. During these minutes that have gone by ARG is attacking much more than Paraguay, but Paraguay’s defense is doing a great job.

The game continues in hands of ARG who once again scored after a wonderful play winning 3-0 when there is seven minutes to the end of the first half. With five minutes to go ARG continues dominating the match and has gained itself a penalty corner which ended in the fourth goal. Once again ARG has the opportunity of scoring, but the ball hit the goalpost and did not enter. Paraguay did all it could but it was not enough for this first half.

The second half has started and the game continues to be very quick, and PAR has entered the pitch determined to give ARG a hard time. Although ARG continues trying PAR does not give up. Their determination is such that they managed to score the first goal when 8 minutes of the second half went by.

ARG gained a penalty corner which ended in a penalty stroke, scoring for the fifth time. PAR gains a penalty corner and as soon the ball was hit ARG intercepts it and runs to the other side scoring their sixth goal. ARG continues counterattacking and manages to score once again, their goal number 7 with four minutes to the end of the match. One minute before the end ARG scored its eighth goal.