Luciana Paula Aymar (Spanish pronunciation: [luˈsjana ajˈmaɾ]; born 10 August 1977) is an Argentine retired field hockey player.^[1]

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Luciana Aymar

Aymar in 2010
Personal information
Full name	Luciana Paula Aymar
Born	(1977-08-10) 10 August 1977 (age 46) Rosario, Argentina
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Youth career
	Fisherton
	Jockey Club de Rosario
Senior career
Years	Team
1998	Rot-Weiss Köln
1999	Real Club de Polo
2000–2007	Quilmes
2008–2011	GEBA
National team
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1994–1998	Argentina U21
1998–2014	Argentina	376	(162)
Medal record Women's field hockey Representing  Argentina Olympic Games 2000 Sydney Team 2012 London Team 2004 Athens Team 2008 Beijing Team World Cup 2002 Perth Team 2010 Rosario Team 2006 Madrid Team 2014 The Hague Team Champions Trophy 2001 Amstelveen Team 2008 Mönchengladbach Team 2009 Sydney Team 2010 Nottingham Team 2012 Rosario Team 2014 Mendoza Team 2002 Macau Team 2007 Quilmes Team 2011 Amstelveen Team 2004 Rosario Team Pan American Games 1999 Winnipeg Team 2003 Santo Domingo Team 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team 2011 Guadalajara Team Pan American Cup 2001 Kingston Team 2004 Bridgetown Team 2013 Mendoza Team Junior World Cup 1997 Seongnam Team

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She is the only player in history to receive the FIH Player of the Year Award eight times,^[2] and she is considered as the best female hockey player of all time.^[3][4][5] In 2010 she was granted the Platinum Konex Award as the best Hockey player of the last decade in Argentina.^[6]

Luciana is known for her ability to beat opposing players using her pace and dribbling skills, drawing comparisons with Argentine footballer Diego Maradona. For this reason she has received the nicknames "La Maga" ("The Magician") and "The Maradona of Field Hockey".

Aymar was the flag bearer for Argentina at the 2012 Summer Olympics, becoming the second field hockey athlete being honoured this way after Marcelo Garraffo.

Aymar was born to René Aymar and Nilda Vicente de Aymar. She has 3 siblings in Her family: Cintia Aymar, Lucas Aymar and Fernando Aymar. Since 2017, Aymar had been in a relationship with former Chilean professional tennis player Fernando González,^[7] and they have two children: a son, Félix, born in 2019,^[8] and a daughter, Lupe, born in 2021.^[9]

Luciana started playing at age seven for Club Atlético Fisherton in her native Rosario. She moved to Jockey Club de Rosario six years later. She gradually began training with the junior national team, for which she had to travel every day to Buenos Aires. In her international career she played for Rot Weiss Köln from Germany and for Real Club de Barcelona from Spain. In her country, Luciana played for Quilmes Atlético Club and GEBA, where she won La Liga Nacional (The National League) and the Torneo Metropolitano. In 1997 she was part of the Argentina junior team that won the Pan American Games Junior Championship and the bronze medal at the Hockey Junior World Cup and a year later she made her debut for the Argentina senior team, finishing fourth at the 1998 Hockey World Cup. She was the youngest Argentine to be accepted into the squad when she was just 16.

Aymar was part of a generation in Argentine field hockey that went on to win several international tournaments from the 1999 Pan American Games onwards, including four Olympic medals, and six Champions Trophies. She was part of the squad that won the 2002 and 2010 Hockey World Cup, with the latter being held in her hometown Rosario.

In 2008, Luciana was declared Legend of Hockey by International Hockey Federation.

She was the flag bearer for her country at the opening ceremony of the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and at the London 2012 Summer Olympics.

In the 2012 Summer Olympics Luciana became the second Argentine to achieve 4 medals, the first being sportsman Carlos Espínola.^[10]

Luciana played her last international game with Argentina on Sunday 7 December 2014, in the city of Mendoza, Argentina, winning her sixth Champions Trophy.