Argentina women's national field hockey team line with an unwritten Argentine tradition of naming national teams after big cats: the men's field hockey team is called "Los Leones" ("The Lions"), the men's rugby union team is called "Los Pumas" ("The Pumas"), and the women's volleyball team is known as "Las Panteras" ("The Panthers"). Since its breakthrough in the 2000 Summer Olympics (where the team nicknamed ""Las Leonas""' for the first time), Argentina has won more than 20 official titles, which are detailed below: The following players were called to compete in the 2018 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy that took place from 17 to 25 November 2018
Argentina national rugby union team Club, where the first rugby match in Argentine had been played). The animal was later replaced by a native to Argentine species, so the jaguar was chosen due to his "agility and courage", according to their words. The "Pumas" nickname is the result of an error made by Carl Kohler, a journalist for the then "Die Transvaler" newspaper in South Africa, while following the team during their first overseas tour ever – to Southern Africa in 1965. He tried to devise a catchy nickname for the team similar to existing international team nicknames such as "All Blacks", "Springboks", and "Wallabies".