Why are Argentina’s hockey Olympic gold medallists Peillat, Menini playing for other countries now in World Cup
The HinduFour years ago, trailing 2-3 against England in the dying moments of the Hockey World Cup quarterfinals in Bhubaneswar, Gonzalo Peillat took a desperate shot from near the halfway line. Peillat wasn’t the only member of that Olympic gold-winning squad whose international career for Argentina ended following the 2018 Hockey World Cup. It’s rare for international hockey players to switch nationalities and Peillat and Menini are the first Olympic champions to do so. READ |FIH World Cup, Group A: Australia, Argentina the heavyweights Caldas, a former Argentine international, had been Menini’s coach at Den Bosch. “I’d been playing with Mannheim since 2018, so I thought I might as well get a passport if I wanted to play for them,” says Peillat, who eventually got his passport in March last year.
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