Chile keeps getting great news! 2023 seems to be the year of sports in our country with the Pan American and Parapan American Games as the main event within an intense sports calendar coming up during the next few months, and now a new milestone has been added.
The International Hockey Federation (FIH) recently confirmed that Santiago will host the 2023 Women’s FIH Hockey Junior World Cup. This important event will gather the best 16 countries of the world with their U-21 staff.
The tournament will take place between December 6th and 17th at the new Centro Deportivo de Hockey Césped of the Estadio Nacional, a place that was built for the Pan American Games. Therefore, this World Cup will be the first international event that will be developed in this place after the Games.
Thus, the Chilean team ‘Las Diablitas’ U-21 already counts with an automatic quota as host team, joining the list of seven countries qualified:
England.
Germany.
Netherlands.
Spain.
Australia.
New Zealand.
Belgium.
The remaining eight quotas will be defined during the next months through the following way: two teams will be qualified from the Junior Africa Cup (in March), three teams from the Junior Pan American Championships (in April) and the next three teams from the Junior Asian Cup (in June).
'Las Diablas' participated in the Rosario 2022 Youth South American Games (picture from: Chilean Olympic Committee).
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW CENTRO DEPORTIVO DE HOCKEY CÉSPED
The space that will host this World Cup is part of the projects that are being built for the Pan American and Parapan American Games, in this sense the Sporting Center is a good example of the infrastructure legacy that the largest multisports mega-event of Chilean history will leave.
The new Centro Deportivo de Hockey Césped has a capacity for 3,478 spectators and it was officially delivered last November. The center comprises two courts with a Domo Fast Play surface which have seats, a technical cabin, an electronic scoreboard and an irrigation system. It also has external spaces such as offices, dressing rooms and storage rooms.
The total investment assigned to build this center was 7.5 million dollars, being one of the six new constructions at the Estadio Nacional. The other centers are: Deportes Colectivos, Deportes de Contacto, Deportes Paralímpicos, Centro Deportivo Sur and the Explanada de los Deportes Urbanos.
This scenario has been used since its opening as a training center by the both male and female National Teams, ‘Los Diablos’ y ‘Las Diablas’, who are training for their important participation in the multisport festival of the Americas.
The new Centro Deportivo de Hockey Césped located at the Estadio Nacional (picture from: Santiago 2023).
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