Álvaro Iglesias Marcos (born 1 March 1993) is a Spanish field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or forward for División de Honor club Club de Campo and the Spain national team.
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| Full name | Álvaro Iglesias Marcos | ||||||||||||||||
| Born |
1 March 1993 Madrid, Spain | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfielder / Forward | ||||||||||||||||
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| Current club | Club de Campo | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2013 | Club de Campo | ||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Dragons | ||||||||||||||||
| 2014–present | Club de Campo | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Spain U21 | 15 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–present | Spain | 194 | (34) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Last updated on: 1 February 2023 | |||||||||||||||||
At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he competed for the national team in the men's tournament.[1]
International career
editÁlvaro played for the Spain U21 team from 2013 until 2014 before he made his debut for the main team in 2014 in a test match against Great Britain.[2] He was part of the Spain squad that finished thirteenth at the 2018 World Cup.[3] He scored two goals in three games in that tournament.[4] At the 2019 EuroHockey Championship, he won his first medal with the national team as they finished second.[5] On 25 May 2021, he was selected in the squad for the 2021 EuroHockey Championship.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Álvaro Iglesias". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 14 August 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
- ^ "IGLESIAS Alvaro". tms.fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
- ^ "LOS #REDSTICKS, ¡YA TIENEN LISTA PARA EL CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO!". rfeh.es (in Spanish). Real Federación Española de Hockey. 4 November 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
- ^ "Spain". tms.fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
- ^ Gilmour, Rod (24 August 2019). "EuroHockey 2019 final: peerless Belgium men storm to first title, 5-0 over Spain". www.thehockeypaper.co.uk. The Hockey Paper. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- ^ "Los #Redsticks Ya Tienen Lista Para El Campeonato De Europa". rfeh.es (in Spanish). Real Federación Española de Hockey. 25 May 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
