Valentina Kogan
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Born
19 March 1980
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height
1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position
Goalkeeper
Current club
Vilo
| Valentina Kogan | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Born |
19 March 1980 Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Vilo | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
– | Argentina | 170 | (3) |
Valentina Kogan (born 19 March 1980) is an Argentine handball goalkeeper. She plays for Vilo and the Argentina national team and participated at the 2011 World Women's Handball Championship in Brazil.[1]
Valentina Kogan is diabetic since the age of 10, and vegetarian since the age of 15.[2] She started playing handball when she was in middle school at Colegio Tarbut, a Jewish private school with a trilingual education program.[3] Kogan studied International Relations at the University of San Andrés,[4] and is married since 2013[5] to Carolina Rieger. As of 2016, the couple is expecting twins, conceived by artificial insemination.[2][6]