Adriana Inés Acosta (

Lomas de Zamora Lomas de Zamora is a city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, located south of the City of Buenos Aires and within the metropolitan area of Greater Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Lomas de Zamora Partido and has a population of 111,897. ...

, 19 January 1956 – disappeared on 27 May 1978 in

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) was an

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and

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player who was

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by the

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that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. On 1972 she integrated and was captain of the metropolitan champion youth team

Lomas Athletic Club Lomas (Spanish for "hills"), also called fog oases and mist oases, are areas of fog-watered vegetation in the coastal desert of Peru and northern Chile. About 100 lomas near the Pacific Ocean are identified between 5°S and 30°S latitude, a nort ...

. On 1973 she was captain of the Buenos Aires team that won the Argentine championship. She also integrated the youth and the national field hockey team. During the dictatorship that took the power on 1976, she maintained a militancy against the regime. She was kidnapped on 27 May 1978, when she was 22 years old, and was taken to the clandestine detention center known as El Banco. She is still missing since then. In her memory, the field hockey court in the

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, has her name.La cancha de hockey de la memoria

References

1956 births Argentine female field hockey players People from Lomas de Zamora People killed in the Dirty War Las Leonas players 1978 deaths Sportspeople from Buenos Aires Province Women in war in South America Women in warfare post-1945 {{Argentina-fieldhockey-bio-stub