Ken Pereira

Kenneth ("Ken") Pereira (born July 12, 1973 in Unionville, Ontario) is a field hockey midfielder from Canada.

Pereira only started playing the game at sixteen. He earned his first international cap in 1994 in a friendly match against Mexico in Toronto (3-0 win). Pereira scored the now famous winning goal against Argentina in the final of the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg. With the victory (1-0), Canada earned an automatic qualification for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

International Senior Competitions

* 1995 – Pan American Games, Mar del Plata (2nd)
* 1996 – Olympic Qualifier, Barcelona (6th)
* 1996 – World Cup Preliminary, Sardinia (2nd)
* 1997 – World Cup Qualifier, Kuala Lumpur (5th)
* 1998 – World Cup, Utrecht (8th)
* 1998 – Commonwealth Games, Kuala Lumpur (not ranked)
* 1999 – Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, Kuala Lumpur (4th)
* 1999 – Pan American Games, Winnipeg (1st)
* 2000 – Americas Cup, Cuba (2nd)
* 2000 – Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, Kuala Lumpur (7th)
* 2000 – Olympic Games, Sydney (10th) [cite news |title=Ken Pereira 35 |page=11 |work=The Markham Economist and Sun |publisher=The Markham Economist and Sun |date=2008-08-09 |accessdate=2008-08-10]
* 2001 – World Cup Qualifier, Edinburgh (8th)
* 2002 – Indoor Pan American Cup, Rockville, USA (1st)
* 2002 – Commonwealth Games, Manchester (6th)
* 2004 – Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Madrid (11th)
* 2006 – Commonwealth Games, Melbourne (9th)

References

References

* [http://fieldhockey.ca/archives/profiles/men/pereira.html Profile]

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DATE OF BIRTH = July 12, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH = Unionville, Ontario
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