Maico Casella
Personal information
Full name Maico Casella Schuth
Born (1997-06-05) 5 June 1997
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current club San Fernando
Youth career
San Fernando
Senior career
Years Team
0000–2019 San Fernando
2019–2021 HGC
2021–2022 Tilburg
2022–2023 HGC
2023–present San Fernando
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016 Argentina U21 18 (25)
2018–present Argentina 107 (31)
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing  Argentina
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place2019 LimaTeam
Gold medal – first place2023 SantiagoTeam
Pan American Cup
Gold medal – first place2017 Lancaster
Gold medal – first place2022 Santiago
Hockey World League
Silver medal – second place2016–17 BhubaneswarTeam
Pan American Junior Championship
Gold medal – first place2016 Toronto
Last updated on: 4 February 2023

Maico Casella Schuth (born 5 June 1997) is an Argentine field hockey player who plays as a forward for San Fernando and the Argentine national team.[1]

Club career

Casella started playing hockey at age six in Argentina for San Fernando.[2] In July 2019, he signed for HGC in the Netherlands.[3] He scored 27 goals in two seasons for HGC and he left them in 2021 for another Dutch club HC Tilburg, where he signed for two seasons.[4] In his first season at Tilburg they were relegated and he did not stay in Tilburg for his second season.[5] On 8 July 2022 it was announced he would return to HGC.[6] Due to personal reasons he returned to Argentina in the middle of the 2022–23 season.[7]

International career

Junior national team

In 2014, Casella made his debut for Argentina, representing the Under 18 national team at a qualifier for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. At the tournament, Argentina finished in first place, with Casella scoring 18 goals. He represented the junior national team at the Pan American Junior Championship in Toronto, Canada. At the tournament he scored 18 goals, helping Argentina to a gold medal and qualification to the Junior World Cup.[8] Casella again represented Argentina at the Junior World Cup in Lucknow, India, where the team finished 5th.[9]

Senior national team

Casella debuted for the senior national team in 2015, in a test series against the United States, in Boston.[10] He was selected for the 2018 World Cup, where he played in all four games.[11] In July 2019, he was selected in the Argentina squad for the 2019 Pan American Games.[12] They won the gold medal by defeating Canada 5-2 in the final.[13] He was the joint-topscorer of the competition with ten goals together with Leandro Tolini.[14] In December 2019, he was nominated for the FIH Rising Star of the Year Award.[15] On 25 June 2021, he was chosen to represent Argentina at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[16]

Honours

Argentina U21
Argentina

References

  1. ↑ "Maico Casella". Confederación Argentina De Hockey. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  2. ↑ "Hockey CASELLA SCHUTH Maico". olympics.com. Archived from the original on 2 September 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  3. ↑ "HGC strikt Argentijn Maico Casella". hoofdklassehockey.nl (in Dutch). Hoofdklasse Hockey. 11 July 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  4. ↑ Fassbender, Wout (11 June 2021). "HC Tilburg trekt vierde Argentijn aan, Scheer stopt met tophockey". bd.nl (in Dutch). Brabants Dagblad. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  5. ↑ Fassbender, Wout (15 June 2022). "Leegloop bij HC Tilburg: ook topaanvaller Maico Casella weg". bd.nl (in Dutch). Brabants Dagblad. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  6. ↑ "Maico Casella keert terug naar HGC". hoofdklassehockey.nl (in Dutch). 8 July 2022. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  7. ↑ "Maico Casella weg bij HGC". hgc.nl (in Dutch). HGC. 3 March 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  8. ↑ "2016 Pan American Junior Championship (Men)". PAHF. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  9. ↑ "Uttar Pradesh Hockey Junior World Cup Men Lucknow 2016". FIH. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  10. ↑ "CASELLA Maico". FIH. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  11. ↑ "LOS 18 LEONES MUNDIALISTAS". cahockey.org.ar (in Spanish). Confederación Argentina de Hockey. 2 November 2018. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  12. ↑ "Los Leones Que Buscarán La Clasificación Olímpica en Lima". www.cahockey.org.ar (in Spanish). Confederación Argentina de Hockey. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  13. ↑ "Los Leones, medalla de oro en hockey de los Panamericanos". www.pagina12.com.ar (in Spanish). Página/12. 10 August 2019. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
  14. ↑ "Goalscoring". www.panamhockey.org. Pan American Hockey Federation. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
  15. ↑ "Manpreet Singh nominated for FIH Player of the Year award". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Lausanne: The Times of India. 6 December 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  16. ↑ "Los Leones Citados Para Los Juegos Olímpicos De Tokio". www.cahockey.org.ar (in Spanish). Confederación Argentina de Hockey. 24 June 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
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