Germán Orozco
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Born |
Buenos Aires, Argentina | 16 January 1976||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | ||
Playing position | Defender | ||
National team | |||
Years | Team | Caps | Goals |
1994–2007 | Argentina | ||
Medal record |
Germán Mariano Orozco (born 16 January 1976) is an Argentine field hockey defender, who made his debut for the Argentina men's national field hockey team in 1994. He competed for his native country in the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics.
He studied kinesiology at the University of Salvador in Buenos Aires. Aged six, he started to play hockey at the Banco Nacional de Desarrollo Club. Orozco played club hockey, as of 2005, in Germany, at a club in Hamburg, named UHC Hamburg. In January 2006 he moved to Dutch champions Oranje Zwart from Eindhoven.
In early 2018 he was chosen as Carlos Retegui's replacement after he resigned as coach of the Argentina men's national field hockey team.
References
[edit]- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Germán Orozco". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012.
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- 1976 births
- Living people
- Argentine male field hockey players
- Male field hockey defenders
- Olympic field hockey players for Argentina
- Argentine field hockey coaches
- Field hockey players from Buenos Aires
- Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina
- Pan American Games medalists in field hockey
- South American Games gold medalists for Argentina
- South American Games medalists in field hockey
- Uhlenhorster HC players
- Oranje Zwart players
- Argentine expatriate field hockey players
- Field hockey players at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Competitors at the 2006 South American Games
- Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players
- Argentine expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
- 21st-century Argentine sportsmen
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