The former coach of the senior hockey teams Sergio “Cachito” Vigil He was moved after the goal by Gonzalo Peillat, the former Los Leones player who scored for Germany, during the live broadcast of the match that sealed the elimination of the Argentines in the Paris Olympic Games.
“Very hard story, I have a lump in my throat. After shouting so many Gonza goals and now see it with the German goal,” said the coach after Peillat’s goal.
With a broken voice, he added: “I can’t say anything else, I have a lump in my throat.”
The Lions said goodbye to Paris 2024 this Sunday by losing to Germany, the current world champion (3-2), after a match in which they twice canceled their rival’s advantage, but were unable to take advantage of two penalty corners with 20 remaining. seconds and the video referee dismissed his last claim.
It was a very physical and hard-fought duel until the end, in which Gonzalo Peillat’s first goal against his teammates in Rio 2016 gold stood out. The Argentine celebrated it effusively and raised his fist.
Germany took the lead at half-time, after dealing the first blow with a goal from Teo Hinrichs when he finished from the baseline, but two minutes later Argentina rose to equalize from a penalty corner and add Maico Casella’s third goal in Paris.
The Germans reached Tomás Santiago’s area with ease, but the Córdoba goalkeeper saved a great shot from Mats Grambush’s turn, although based on power and speed came their first two penalty corners and Gonzalo Peillat’s moment.
The Olympic champion with Argentina in Rio 2016 ran into the defense of his former teammates in the first, but he retaliated in the second and scored his first goal in a Games for the team with which he played from 2011 to 2018 and which he later resigned for discrepancies with the operation of your selection.
The German goalkeeper Jean-Paul Danneberg prevented the tie with a foot on a shot by Nicolás Keenan when the goal was called and repeated the success after the break to the later Agustín Bugallo and Agustín Mazzilli. The Bugallo-Mazzilli partnership worked perfectly at the start of the last quarter, so that the former’s back pass ended in a great goal from the latter and opened the game again (2-2), until a steal by Justus Weigand to face door from the 22 line he closed it again.