Nicolás Della Torre
Argentine field hockey player
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Nicolás Enrique Della Torre (born 1 March 1990) is an Argentine field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or forward[1] for Belgian Hockey League club Dragons and the Argentina national team.
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| Full name | Nicolás Enrique Della Torre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 March 1990 Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Field hockey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder / Forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Dragons | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Updated on 5 February 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club career
Della Torre played in Argentina for Ciudad de Buenos Aires. When he became the top scorer of the Argentinian league in 2017, he transferred to the Netherlands to play for Den Bosch.[2] Due to problems with getting an Italian passport to be eligible to play in the Netherlands, he could not play for Den Bosch in the first half of the 2017–18 season.[3][4] He played in Malaysia Hockey League for Terengganu during the 2017 Dutch winter break.[5] In April 2019, he agreed to play for Leuven from the 2019–20 season onwards.[6] In his final season for Den Bosch he scored 13 goals which made him the seventh highest top scorer of the season.[7] After one season he left Leuven for Dragons.[8] In his first season he won the Belgian league title.[9]
International career
Della Torre won his first medal with the national team at the 2013 South American Championship. In June 2015 he was selected for the 2015 Pan American Games,[10] where they won the gold medal. He made his World Cup debut at the 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup.[11]
