Bernardino Herrera Casanueva (born 15 October 1977 in

Santander Santander may refer to: Places * Santander, Spain, a port city and capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain * Santander Department, a department of Colombia * Santander State, former state of Colombia * Santander de Quilichao, a m ...

, Cantabria) is a

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

goalkeeper from

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. He earned his first cap for the Men's National Team in 1998 during the Champions Trophy tournament in

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. He is also the husband of the female hockey star

Silvia Muñoz Silvia Muñoz Escudé (born September 18, 1979 in Terrassa, Catalonia) is a field hockey midfield and forward player from Spain. She represented her native country at three consecutive Olympic Games: 2000, 2004 and 2008. Muñoz captained the Spai ...

. Herrera competed in two

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for his native country, starting in

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. There he finished in ninth position, followed by the fourth place in

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. The goalie of

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won the title at the Champions Trophy in Lahore, and at the

2005 Men's Hockey European Nations Cup The 2005 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship was the tenth edition of the Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship, the biennial international men's field hockey championship of Europe organized by the European Hockey Federation. It was held on the ...

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Profile on Athens 2004-website
1977 births Living people Sportspeople from Santander, Spain Field hockey players from Cantabria Spanish male field hockey players Male field hockey goalkeepers Olympic field hockey players for Spain Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup players Club de Campo Villa de Madrid players {{Spain-fieldhockey-bio-stub