2018 FIL World Championship Update

Thank you your support of Argentina lacrosse! We wanted to update you on the men's team best-ever performance at this year's FIL World Championships! We finished in the top half of the world and almost broke out even higher with some tight games against teams ranked directly ahead of us.

Tryouts for this tournament's team were the most competitive in the program's history by a long shot. Argentine players traveled to Buenos Aires for a week-long tryout while USA-based players to Denver, Colorado to compete for their shot on the roster. The strong pool of athletes made for some tough cuts for the final roster. We would expect it to get even more difficult to join the Argentine team in the future.

The team traveled to Munich, Germany prior to the tournament for a training camp & friendlies against some local German club teams organized by long-time supporter and former player Christopher "Gogo" Gogolin. A big thanks to Gogo for hosting!

A few of our standout performances included (and there were MANY more):

• Mariano "Caru" Carugatti's making huge leaps as a FOGO and quickly becoming dominant at the international level (after stepping up for the position when asked by the coaches 5 months before!)

• Bruno "Pinguino" Stretti putting up a hat trick in a game and dominating down the stretch of the tournament

• Raul "Cachete" Mendy locking it down on the defensive end

• Alex "LFV" Weber leading a high-powered offense as one of the top scorers at the tournament

• Tomas Rigetti somehow keeping us organized on the ground in Israel

• Jorge and Maristela for their work keeping our players healthy and supporting the team

• Agustin "Colo" Gonzalez Lopez bringing it every single day

We have many more individuals we would like to recognize that helped make this possible but this e-mail would look more like a novel. Thank you to each and every one of you that helped the program over the last few years.

On the leadership side, we would really like to recognize the efforts of Rocky Miquelarena and Mariano Flores Lleyes. They are both rockstars and invaluable to the program.

We are really excited about the future of lacrosse in Argentina and expect big things of the program in the future. The players, organizers, coaches and supporters of Argentina lacrosse are out doing the hard work now: growing the game.