Diego_Arana
Diego Arana
Spanish field hockey player
Diego Arana Antoñanzas (born 12 September 1988) is a Spanish field hockey player who plays as a forward for Jolaseta and the Spanish national team.
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| Full name | Diego Arana Antoñanzas | ||||||||||||||||
| Born |
(1988-09-12) 12 September 1988 (age 35) Bilbao, Spain | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
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| Current club | Jolaseta | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Jolaseta | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2011 | Jolaseta | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | Club de Campo | ||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Jolaseta | ||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | Braxgata | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Tenis | ||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Pinoké | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Jolaseta | ||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | Herakles | ||||||||||||||||
| 2020–present | Jolaseta | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–present | Spain | 57 | (13) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Last updated on: 28 February 2020 | |||||||||||||||||
Arana played in Spain for Jolaseta and Club de Campo until 2014, when he moved to Belgium to play for Braxgata. In the 2015–16 season he helped them claim their first-ever play-off place in the Men's Belgian Hockey League.[2] After two seasons in Belgium he returned to Spain to play for Tenis. In 2017 he left Spain again, this time he went to the Netherlands to play for Pinoké.[3] After one season with Pinoké he returned to Jolaseta.[4] In June 2019, it was announced he would join Herakles in Belgium for the 2019–20 season.[5] He returned to Jolaseta after a half season to improve his chances for selection in the Spain squad.[6]
Arana made his debut for the senior national team in December 2016 in a test match against Ireland. He represented Spain at the 2018 World Cup.[7][8] At the 2019 EuroHockey Championship, he won his first medal with the national team as they finished second.[9]
- "ARANA Diego". www.worldcup2018.hockey. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- "Brax Claim First Ever Playoff Place". ehlhockey.tv. Euro Hockey League. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- "Rutger Marres verruilt Kampong voor Pinoké". hoofdklassehockey.nl (in Dutch). Hoofdklasse Hockey. 19 June 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- "El internacional Diego Arana regresa al Jolaseta". www.mundodeportivo.com (in Spanish). Bilbao: Mundo Deportivo. 8 September 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- Toussaint, Laurent (7 June 2019). "L'Herakles se renforce pour la saison prochaine". hockeybelgium.lesoir.be (in French). Hockey Belgium. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- "DHA (Jor. 10): Previa De La Jornada". rfeh.es (in Spanish). Real Federación Española de Hockey. 21 February 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
- "LOS #REDSTICKS, ¡YA TIENEN LISTA PARA EL CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO!". rfeh.es (in Spanish). Real Federación Española de Hockey. 4 November 2018. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- 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.