The FIH Women’s Hockey World Cup kicks off this weekend in Rosario, and hosts Las Leonas are among the favourites hoping to take home the cup.

Tari Gaffney investigates the growing craze for American football in Argentina, an oddity in a country that is two-time World Cup champion and home to Maradona and Messi.

The World Cup is in full swing and Argentina is wired, but one sector of the country has been subtly absent and even depicted as being against the football craze: Argentine women.

The long wait is over, the time has come to see whether Diego Maradona’s 23-man squad can roll back the years and win Argentina’s first World Cup since 1986. Their challenge kicks off on Saturday when they take on Nigeria in Johannesburg, before embarking on a South African odyssey which they hope will see them return to the gold-rush city on 11th July for the final to lift their own pot of gold.