Germán Orozco

Germán Orozco
Personal information
Born	16 January 1976 (age 48); Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	74 kg (163 lb)
Playing position	Defender
National team
Years	Team
1994–2007	Argentina
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing Argentina
Champions Challenge
Pan American Games

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

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.

External links

Germán Orozco at the International Hockey Federation
Germán Orozco at Olympedia
Germán Orozco at the International Hockey Federation
Germán Orozco at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

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