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#2 Quico Cortes
Quico Cortes was in the Red Sticks side who were on a roll with a stupendous show in the 2006 World Cup, in Mönchengladbach where Spain won the bronze medal, which was followed by a silver medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Spain have, since, failed to carry their ascendancy forward on the world stage, but Cortes carries on - catapulting his team to Odisha 2018 with a stupendous show in the HWL Semifinals - and while in Bhubaneswar, impressing the crowds with his breathtaking stops.
Who, for instance, can forget the saved penalty stroke against the French at the Kalinga Stadium?
At the Pro League 2019, Cortes began with a bang, saving four of four shootouts to give the Spanish a vital extra point in the shootout against Belgium and then denied Pruyser, Brinkman, and Terrance Pieters to ensure another shootout win against the Dutch.
The wily Cortes displayed his years of experience in the shootout against the Netherlands when the Dutch were awarded a penalty stroke after Pieters appeared to have been obstructed by Cortes.
The Spaniard decided to go upstairs and claimed that he was the one who had been stick-checked initially. As the video umpire announced the verdict in favour of the Dutch, an unfazed Cortes painstakingly but confidently repeated what he wanted looked into - and managed to get the penalty stroke overturned, much to the dismay of Max Caldas' team.
Not surprisingly, the Spaniards seemed to relish the tie-breakers with five shootout wins in the 2019 Pro League - and Quico Cortes will be the goalkeeper to beat in the 2020 edition.
