Agustín Alejandro Mazzilli (born 20 June 1989) is an Argentine

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player who plays as a midfielder or forward for

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club Braxgata and the Argentine national team.

Club career

In Argentina, Mazzilli played for

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. His first club in

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was

KHC Leuven Koninklijke Hockey Club Leuven, commonly known as KHC Leuven or simply Leuven, is a Belgian field hockey club based in Heverlee in Leuven, Flemish Brabant. Honours Men Belgian Hockey League * Winners (1): 2007–08 EuroHockey Cup Winners' Trophy * ...

from Belgium. After two seasons with Leuven, he went to another Belgian club

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, where he played for three seasons. In 2016 he transferred to

HC Oranje-Rood Hockeyclub Oranje-Rood (), also known as HC Oranje-Rood or simply Oranje-Rood, is a Dutch field hockey club based in Eindhoven, North Brabant. The club was founded on 1 July 2016 as a merger of Oranje Zwart and EMHC. In May 2019, the first wome ...

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, where he signed a contract for two years. When his contract expired, he signed a 2-year contract for Pinoké from

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. After the

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he returned to Belgium to play for Braxgata.

International career

Mazzilli was a part of Argentina's gold medal-winning team at the

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. At the

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, he competed for the

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in the men's tournament. He has won the bronze medal at the

2014 Men's Hockey World Cup The 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup was the 13th edition of the Hockey World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national field hockey teams organized by the FIH. It was held from 31 May to 15 June 2014 at the Kyocera Stadion in The Ha ...

. In July 2019, he was selected in the Argentina squad for the

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. They won the gold medal by defeating

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5-2 in the final.

Honours

International

Argentina *

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* Pan American Cup:

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Argentina U21 *

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: 2008

Individual

*Pan American Elite Team: 2017, 2019

References

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