Las Leonas finally returns to Argentina after an unnecessary odyssey and an extra night in a hotel

After several round trips and a 24 hour delay, Las Leonas returns to Argentina. The blue-white team, which on Sunday won the silver medal in the soccer championship Women’s Hockey World Cup in Spain and the Netherlands, after losing 3-1 in the final to the Dutch, should have returned to the national team on Monday; but his scheduled flight was canceled and he had to spend an extra day on European soil. Finally, this Tuesday he has embarked on a trip and on Wednesday morning he will arrive in Buenos Aires.

How could he find out Clarionethe team – who spent the night in Barcelona – took a flight from Air France KLM, which departed from that Spanish city and has a long layover in Amsterdam. But even though they are already coming, the girls have once again shown their anger on their social networks for the lack of response and the mishandling of the situation by the airline.

“A month and a half away from home. Let’s go again! Thanks Air France for being the worst airline in the world. Looking to get home part 2”, he wrote Agustina Albertarioone of the team’s landmarks, in a story on his Instagram account, very early this Tuesday.

A few hours later, the striker, who shared the news on Monday that the return of the world runner-up had been delayed, again expressed his anger. “They are a pity. They do not take care of anything. They do not give you a solution, they do not want to come out and show their faces”, was downloaded in other publications on that social, in which the Argentine players are already seen At the airport.

“Here is the solution that Air France offers us after canceling our flight: send us to a hotel 100 kilometers away, put us on a new flight with a 6-hour stop in Amsterdam. This is a shame,” he wrote. Maria José Granatochosen as the top player of the World Cup, on their social networks.

Eugenia Trichinetti also displayed the situation. “Yesterday we went to the airport to catch our flight home after playing a World Cup. And they canceled the flight in our face, previously sending us an email saying it was going perfectly,” said the exited player. from San Fernando, in a post that went up around 11:30 from Argentina.

“Their solution was to send us to a hotel 100 kilometers away. We had to wait for a bus that arrived 3 hours later, carrying all our luggage from one place to another, without anyone’s help. The next day , we woke up 7 a to go back to the airport. Fortunately they cared a lot and got us a flight with a stopover in Amsterdam for 6 hours. We are still on the way to our country. Air France, too bad, “he continued.

The team led by Fernando Ferreranumber two in the world ranking and current undefeated champion of the pro-leaguehe was unable to seal a great World Cup with the trophy, in which he passed the group stage with an ideal score to then beat England in the quarter-finals and Germany in the semifinals.

In the final they fell in the Netherlands, which once again left them untitled, as they did just over a year ago, also beating them 3-1 in the duel for the gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

The European team, leader of the FIH world ranking, became world champion for the ninth time in its history – it is the most successful at this level – and for the third consecutive edition.

The Argentine team, meanwhile, was left with the desire to add its third crown, after those won in Perth 2002 and Rosario 2010. But it returned to the world podium after eight years – after the bronze in The Hague 2014, it finished seventh at London 2018- and also won the three most important individual awards of the tournament, Best Goalkeeper (Belén Succi, who played her last tournament with the Biancoceleste jersey), Best Player (Beautiful Granatto) and Marcatore (Agustina Gorzelany).

This Wednesday, after the odyssey in which it became the return trip, it will reunite with the Argentine public and will be able to celebrate a very positive second place.