2021 Men's Junior Pan American Championship

2021 Men's Junior Pan American Championship
Tournament details
Host countryChile
CitySantiago
Dates21–28 August
Teams7 (from 1 confederation)
VenuePrince of Wales Country Club
Final positions
Champions Chile (1st title)
Runner-up Argentina
Third place United States
Tournament statistics
Matches played15
Goals scored69 (4.6 per match)
Top scorerChile Andrés Pizarro (7 goals)
Best playerTrinidad and Tobago Teague Marcano
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The 2021 Men's Junior Pan American Championship was the 12th edition of the Men's Pan American Junior Championship, the men's international under-21 field hockey championship of the Americas organized by the Pan American Hockey Federation.

The tournament was held alongside the women's tournament at the Prince of Wales Country Club in Santiago, Chile and was originally scheduled to take place from 30 November to 13 December 2020.[1] On 29 May 2020 the Pan American Hockey Federation announced that the tournament was rescheduled and would take place from 12 to 25 April 2021.[2] Later on 15 January, it was announced that the competition would take place from 21 to 28 August 2021.

Argentina were the defending champions, winning the 2016 edition.[3] This tournament served as the Pan American qualifier for the 2021 FIH Junior World Cup, with the finalists qualifying.[4]

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Argentina 2 2 0 0 11 1 +10 6 Semi-finals
2  United States 2 1 0 1 3 4 −1 3
3  Trinidad and Tobago 2 0 0 2 3 12 −9 0
Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals for.[5]


Pool B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Chile (H) 3 3 0 0 10 2 +8 9 Semi-finals
2  Canada 3 2 0 1 7 4 +3 6
3  Mexico 3 1 0 2 8 9 −1 3
4  Brazil 3 0 0 3 1 11 −10 0
Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals for.[5]
(H) Hosts


Fifth to seventh place classification

Bracket

 
Seventh placeFifth place
 
      
 
27 August
 
 
 Trinidad and Tobago4
 
28 August
 
 Brazil2
 
 Trinidad and Tobago4
 
 
 Mexico5
 
 
 
 

Seventh place match

Fifth place match

First to fourth place classification

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
27 August
 
 
 Argentina2
 
28 August
 
 Canada1
 
 Argentina1 (2)
 
27 August
 
 Chile (s.o.)1 (3)
 
 Chile4
 
 
 United States0
 
Third place
 
 
28 August
 
 
 Canada1 (3)
 
 
 United States (s.o.)1 (4)

Semi-finals


Third place match

Final

Statistics

Final standings

Pos Team Qualification
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Chile (H) 2021 Junior World Cup
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Argentina
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  United States
4  Canada
5  Mexico
6  Trinidad and Tobago
7  Brazil
Source: FIH
(H) Host

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.[6]

Player of the tournament Goalkeeper of the tournament Top goalscorer
Trinidad and Tobago Teague Marcano Chile Agustin Araya Chile Andrés Pizarro

Goalscorers

There were 69 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 4.6 goals per match.

7 goals

6 goals

  • Trinidad and Tobago Teague Marcano

5 goals

  • Mexico Alexander Sandoval

4 goals

  • Argentina Bruno Stellato
  • Canada Jagpreet Singh

3 goals

  • Argentina Nazareno Garcia
  • Mexico Yamil Méndez

2 goals

  • Argentina Nahuel Gomez
  • Argentina Joaquín Toscani
  • Brazil Paulo Rigueira
  • Canada Sean Davis
  • Canada John Jacoby
  • Chile Benjamín Koster
  • Mexico Andre Benedith
  • Mexico Erick Hernández
  • Trinidad and Tobago Joel Daniel
  • Trinidad and Tobago Aidan Marcano
  • United States Jatin Sharma

1 goal

  • Argentina Martín Fernandez
  • Argentina Gregorio Ibarra
  • Argentina Tobías Viviant
  • Brazil Matheus Oliveira
  • Canada Aaron Foong
  • Chile Francisco Cerda
  • Chile Jose Echenique
  • Chile José Hurtado
  • Chile Nils Strabucchi
  • Chile Francisco Valdivia
  • Chile Raimundo Valenzuela
  • Mexico Brian Rangel
  • Trinidad and Tobago Ghardel Elcock
  • United States Brett Eisner
  • United States Mehtab Grewal

Source: FIH

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Calendar Events". www.panamhockey.org. Pan American Hockey Federation. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  2. ↑ "Rescheduling of Junior Pan American Championships (U-21)". panamhockey.org. Pan American Hockey Federation. 29 May 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  3. ↑ "Field is set for Junior Hockey World Cups". International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "Qualification Criteria for FIH Junior World Cup 2021" (PDF). fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  5. 1 2 FIH General Tournament Regulations June 2021
  6. ↑ "Chile Men and Canada Women Junior Pan American Champions". panamhockey.org. Pan American Hockey Federation. 28 August 2021. Archived from the original on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.