Sofía Machado
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| Full name | Sofía Machado Paonessa | ||||||||||||||||
| Born |
1 November 1995 Santiago, Chile | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Defense | ||||||||||||||||
| Club information | |||||||||||||||||
| Current club | Universidad Católica | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Chile U–21 | 17 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017– | Chile | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sofía Machado Paonessa (born 1 November 1995)[1] is a field hockey player from Chile,[2] who plays as a defender.[3]
Personal life
[edit]Sofía Machado cites former Argentine international, Luciana Aymar, as being her sporting hero.[4]
Machado studied Physical Education and Health at Andrés Bello University.[4]
Career
[edit]Under–21
[edit]In 2016, Sofía Machado was a member of the Chile U–21 that won bronze at the Pan American Junior Championship in Tacarigua.[5] Later that year, she also represented Chile at the FIH Junior World Cup in Santiago, where the team finished 9th.[6]
Las Diablas
[edit]At the conclusion of her junior career, Machado debuted for Las Diablas in 2017 during a test event in Cape Town.[7]
Since her debut, Machado has been included in national teams for test matches but never major international tournaments.[7] In 2020, she was officially raised into the senior national squad.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Team Details – Chile". tms.fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
- ^ "Conoce a los jugadores UC convocados por la Federación Chilena de Hockey Césped 2019". lacatolica.cl (in Spanish). Universidad Católica. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
- ^ a b "Selecciones Damas". chilehockey.cl (in Spanish). Federación Chilena de Hockey Césped. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
- ^ a b "Sofía Machado, estudiante, hockista y entrenadora". zancada.com (in Spanish). Zancada. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
- ^ "2016 Junior Pan American Championship (Women) – Chile". panamhockey.org. Pan American Hockey Federation. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
- ^ "Cruzadas Junior de talla mundial". lacatolica.cl (in Spanish). Universidad Católica. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
- ^ a b "MACHADO Sofía". tms.fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 10 July 2020.