After the magnificent victory over Germany to win the bronze, England won further recognition in the Women's World Cup in Rosario when Beth Storry was awarded the Goalkeeper of the Tournament last night.The award followed the final, which had seen Argentina cheered on by a capacity home crowd, estimated to be in the region of 14,500 spectators, in their match against the holder's, The Netherlands. Things could hardly have got off for a worse start for the Dutch, who seemed to be facing a rout after going behind 2-0 in the first seven minutes. Carla Rebecchi opened the scoring, with Noel Barrionuevo proving how deadly she is from penalty corners only a few minutes later.
The Netherlands managed to steady the ship and looked to be back in contention when Maartje Paumen added to her impressive tally of penalty corner goals, but ten minutes later Carla Rebecchi scored her second to put the match beyond doubt.
Final score 3-1 to Argentina.
The final tables can be viewed on our web site at www.talkhockeyradio.co.uk.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank photographer Daniel Carson for supplying TalkHockeyRadio with photographs from Rosario (including today's of England goalkeeper Beth Storry), more of which can be seen in the October edition of our on-line magazine HockeyTalk, which can be viewed at our web site from 30 September.
