Ricardo_Sánchez_(field_hockey)
Ricardo Sánchez (field hockey)
Spanish field hockey player
Ricardo Sánchez Herrero (born 4 December 1992) is a Spanish field hockey player who plays as a defender or midfielder for Club de Campo. He played a total of 124 matches for the Spanish national team and scored ten goals from 2014 until 2022.
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| Full name | Ricardo Sánchez Herrero | ||||||||||||||||
| Born |
(1992-12-04) 4 December 1992 (age 31) Madrid, Spain | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Defender / midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Club information | |||||||||||||||||
| Current club | Club de Campo | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Complutense | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
| 0000–2016 | Complutense | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2018 | Leuven | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Gantoise | ||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | Complutense | ||||||||||||||||
| 2020–present | Club de Campo | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Spain U21 | 10 | |||||||||||||||
| 2014–2022 | Spain | 124 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Complutense was the only club he ever played for until he moved to Belgium to play for Leuven in 2016.[1] In 2018, he switched to another Belgian club Gantoise.[2] After one season with Gantoise, he returned to Complutense.[3] In June 2020 it was announced he left Complutense for the other Madrid-based club Club de Campo.[4] In his second season at the club, Club de Campo won their first ever Spanish national title.[5]
Sánchez made his debut for the senior national team in November 2014 in a test match against Great Britain. Initially, he was not selected for the 2018 World Cup but he replaced Miquel Delas later in the tournament who had to withdraw injured.[6] At the 2019 EuroHockey Championship, he won his first medal with the national team as they finished second.[7] On 25 May 2021, he was selected in the squad for the 2021 EuroHockey Championship.[8] In July 2023 he retired from the national team.[9]
- Lodewyckx, Bertrand. "Ricardo Sanchez, l'éloge du travail". hockeyvalues.com (in French). Hockey Values. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- Toussaint, Laurent (5 June 2018). "Ricardo Sanchez, nouveau transfuge gantois". hockeybelgium.lesoir.be (in French). Hockey Belgium. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- "Ricardo Sánchez Regresa Al SPV-Complutense". www.rfeh.es (in Spanish). Reaal Federación Española de Hockey. 10 June 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- "El 'Redstick' Ricardo Sánchez ficha por el Club de Campo". marca.com (in Spanish). Marca. 26 June 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
- "El At.Terrassa cede la Liga MGS en casa (3-6) ante el Club de Campo" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
- "Injured Spain captain Miguel Delas to be replaced by Ricardo Sanchez". worldcup2018.hockey. International Hockey Federation. 1 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.
- "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.
