Florencia Martina Habif (born 22 August 1993) is an Argentine

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player. Being part of

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's junior national team "Las Leoncitas" ("The Baby Lionesses") since 2009 and of the national team

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("The Lionesses") since 2010, she has competed in several tournaments, including the

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, where the team achieved the silver medal, being the team's youngest player. In 2014, she was named the Best Young Player in the world by the

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and has been nominated 4 times. Florencia is also a player in the club

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(GEBA) since she was 4 years old. Habif is part of the so-called New Generation of Argentina's Women's Field Hockey.

Sports career

Florencia started to play field hockey at GEBA and then joined Argentina's junior national team at the age of 17, achieving the gold medal at the 2010 Pan American Youth Championship Tournament in

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, then qualifying and earning the silver medal at the

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. With the senior national team, Florencia earned three

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, the World League 2014-15, the bronze medal at the

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and two Pan American Cups. She played in the Visa International Invitational Hockey Tournament at

before her first

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at the age of 19 at the

Sponsorship

Ritual

Florencia is sponsored b
Ritual Hockey
joining many other top athletes from around the world.

Nike

Florencia Habif is provided with Nike clothes.

Red Bull

Habif is also sponsored by Red Bull along with some of the best athletes from Argentina and the world.

Awards

* Player of the Tournament at the 2012 Pan American Junior Championship held at

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. * Revelación de Oro (Gold Revelation) on 2012, at the Fiesta del Deporte ("Party of the Sports") sponsored by Clarín, one of Argentina's main newspapers, due to her performance with the National Team. * Nominated to the Terna Olímpica 2012 at the Premios Olimpia, an award organized by the Círculo de Periodistas de Buenos Aires (Circle of Journalists of Buenos Aires). * 2014 - FIH Young Women Player of the Year.

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