{{Short description|Spanish field hockey player (born 1979)}} {{family name hatnote|Garza|Barbero|lang=Spanish}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox field hockey player | name = Rodrigo Garza | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | full_name = Rodrigo Garza Barbero | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1979|12|3|df=y}} | birth_place = Madrid, Spain | position = Defender/midfielder | years1 = | clubs1 = San Pablo Valdeluz | years2 = {{0|0000}}–2004 | clubs2 = Club de Campo | years3 = 2004–2007 | clubs3 = Den Bosch | years4 = 2007–2009 | clubs4 = Bloemendaal | years5 = 2009–2011 | clubs5 = HGC | nationalyears1 = 1998–2010 | nationalteam1 = Spain | nationalcaps(goals)1 = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's field hockey}} {{MedalCountry | {{ESP}} }} {{MedalOlympic}} {{MedalSilver|2008 Beijing|Team}} {{MedalCompetition|European Championship}} {{MedalGold|2005 Leipzig| Team}} {{MedalSilver|2003 Barcelona| Team}} {{MedalSilver|2007 Manchester| Team}} {{MedalCompetition|Champions Trophy}} {{MedalGold|2004 Lahore|Team}} {{MedalBronze|2005 Chennai|Team}} {{MedalBronze|2006 Terrassa|Team}} {{MedalCompetition|Champions Challenge}} {{MedalGold| 2003 Johannesburg | Team}} |show-medals=no }}
'''Rodrigo Garza Barbero''' (born 3 December 1979 in Madrid) is a retired field hockey defender/midfielder from Spain. He represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000.
==Club career== After the Athens Games (2004), where the Spain finished in fourth position, Garza moved to The Netherlands, where he joined HC Den Bosch in the Dutch Premier League, called ''Hoofdklasse''. He moved on to national champions HC Bloemendaal in the spring of 2007, and became champion of premier Dutch league in the 2008 and 2009 season, winning also the European Hockey League in his last season with the club. Since September 2009 he played for HGC, a Dutch team near The Hague, which is also in the Dutch Premier League.{{fact|date=July 2022}}
Born and raised in Madrid, Spain, he started to play Hockey at his hometown school Colegio Valdeluz and then promoted through respective categories until reaching premier Spanish league "División de Honor" playing with San Pablo Valdeluz (later on Ssang Yong Valdeluz). He then moved to play for Club de Campo Villa de Madrid before arriving to the Netherlands.{{fact|date=July 2022}}
==International career== Garza has been many times junior and senior champion and runner up in both field and indoor Hockey, participating in several Euro championships: Padua, Barcelona, Leipzig and Manchester. He has participated in two Hockey World Cups in Kuala Lumpur and Mönchengladbach. He achieved a major success by winning the first Champions Trophy for Spain in 2004 at the National Hockey Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan and ending runner up in 2008 edition celebrated in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
== References == * [http://www.coe.es/ Spanish Olympic Committee]
==External links== *{{sports links}}
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