Luciana started playing at age seven for Club Atlético Fisherton in her native
Rosario. She moved to
Jockey Club de Rosario six years later. She gradually began training with the junior national team, for which she had to travel every day to
Buenos Aires. In her international career she played for Rot Weiss Köln from Germany and for Real Club de Barcelona from Spain. In her country, Luciana played for
Quilmes Atlético Club and
GEBA, where she won La Liga Nacional (The National League) and the Torneo Metropolitano. In 1997 she was part of the Argentina junior team that won the
Pan American Games Junior Championship and the bronze medal at the
Hockey Junior World Cup and a year later she made her debut for the
Argentina senior team, finishing fourth at the
1998 Hockey World Cup. She was the youngest Argentine to be accepted into the squad when she was just 16. Aymar was part of a generation in Argentine field hockey that went on to win several international tournaments from the 1999 Pan American Games onwards, including four Olympic medals, and six
Champions Trophies. She was part of the squad that won the
2002 and
2010 Hockey World Cup, with the latter being held in her hometown Rosario. She is the only player in history to receive the
FIH Player of the Year Award eight times, and is considered as the best female hockey player of all time. In 2010 she was granted the Platinum
Konex Award as the best hockey player of the last decade in Argentina. Luciana is known for her ability to beat opposing players using her pace and
dribbling skills, drawing comparisons with Argentine
footballer Diego Maradona. For this reason she has received the nicknames "La Maga" ("The Magician") and "The Maradona of Field Hockey". Aymar was the
flag bearer for Argentina at the
2012 Summer Olympics, becoming the second field hockey athlete being honoured this way after
Marcelo Garraffo. ==Personal life==