FIL World Championship

Men’s Performance in Israel!

July 2018

The Men's Team Argentina’s best-ever performance was 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. Argentine players traveled to Buenos Aires for a week-long tryout while USA-based players traveled to Denver, Colorado, to compete for their spot on the roster. The strong pool of athletes made for some tough cuts for the final roster.

The team traveled to Munich, Germany before 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:

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

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

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

• Alex "LFV" Weber led a high-powered offense as one of the top scorers in this tournament

• Tomas Rigetti kept us organized on the ground in Israel

• Jorge and Maristela kept our players healthy and supported the team

• Agustin "Colo" Gonzalez Lopez brought IT every single day

We have many more individuals we would like to recognize who helped make this possible! Thank you to everyone who helped the program over the last few years in preparation for this competition.

On the leadership side, we would like to recognize the efforts of Rocky Miquelarena and Mariano Flores Lleyes. ROCKSTARS and invaluable to the program.

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