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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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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.
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]
