Miquel Delas

Miquel Delàs
Personal information
Full name	Miquel Delàs de Andres
Born	13 April 1984 (age 40); Barcelona, Spain
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
Playing position	Defender / Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Barcelona
Youth career
	Barcelona
Senior career
Years	Team
2002–2007	Barcelona
2007–2012	Atlètic Terrassa
2012–2017	Royal Antwerp
2017–present	Barcelona
National team
Years	Team
2005–present	Spain
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing Spain
EuroHockey Championship
Champions Trophy
Men's indoor hockey
Indoor World Cup
	Last updated on: 24 July 2021

Miquel Delàs de Andres (born 13 April 1984) is a Spanish field hockey player who plays as a defender or midfielder for FC Barcelona and the Spanish national team.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the national team in the men's tournament.^[1] He also competed for the team in the 2016 Summer Olympics tournament.^[2]

Club career

Miquel started playing hockey at a really young age at FC Barcelona. He left them in 2007 for Atlètic Terrassa HC because he wanted to win titles.^[3] After five seasons with Atlètic, he went to Belgium to play for Royal Antwerp, where he also played for five seasons. After ten years away from his boyhood club, he returned to Barcelona in 2017.^[3]

International career

The defender has been playing for the Spanish national team since 2005 and has registered 218 caps since. In 2017, he became the captain of the national team, which he is still today. He was selected for the 2018 World Cup,^[4] which was his third World Cup. He only played one game in that tournament because he got injured in the first match against Argentina.^[5] In August 2019, he was selected in the Spain squad for the 2019 EuroHockey Championship.^[6] They won the silver medal as they lost 5–0 to Belgium in the final.^[7] On 25 May 2021, he was selected in the squad for the 2021 EuroHockey Championship.^[8]

References

^ "Miguel Delas". London 2012. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited. Archived from the original on 9 July 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
^ "FRED SOYEZ HACE OFICIAL SU LISTA DE CONVOCADOS PARA LOS JJOO DE RIO DE JANEIRO". RFEH. 3 July 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Miquel Delàs vuelve al FC Barcelona de hockey hierba". fcbarcelona.es (in Spanish). FC Barcelona. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
^ "LOS #REDSTICKS, ¡YA TIENEN LISTA PARA EL CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO!". rfeh.es (in Spanish). Real Federación Española de Hockey. 4 November 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
^ "Injured Spain captain Miguel Delas to be replaced by Ricardo Sanchez". worldcup2018.hockey. International Hockey Federation. 1 December 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
^ "Los #RedSticks Ya Tienen Lista Para El Campeonato De Europa". rfeh.es (in Spanish). Real Federación Española de Hockey. 7 August 2019. 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.