Carla Rebecchi (born 7 September 1984) is an Argentine

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player who won the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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and the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in

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with the Argentina national field hockey team. In 2010, she won the

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in Rosario, Argentina. Carla also won six Champions Trophy, the 2014–2015 World League, three medals at the Pan American Games and two Pan American Cups. After

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retired and Macarena Rodriguez was left out of the national team after the

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, she was selected to be the captain. In February 2017 she announced her retirement after 290 matches and 153 goals, and returned after becoming a mother in 3 September 2018.

References

The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Confederación Argentina de Hockey
Official site of the Argentine Hockey Confederation

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