Jelle Galema (born 16 November 1992) is a Dutch

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player who plays as a forward for Oranje-Rood and the Dutch national team.

Club career

Galema started playing hockey at MEP in

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and in 2009 he made the switch to

Oranje Zwart Mixed Hockeyclub Oranje Zwart was a Dutch professional field hockey club located in Eindhoven, North Brabant, which was founded on 1 September 1933. With around 1,700 members – as of 3 May 2006 – it is one of the biggest clubs in the ...

. After Oranje Zwart merged in 2016 with EMHC he started playing for the newly formed club Oranje-Rood. In 2018, he moved to

Den Bosch s-Hertogenbosch (), colloquially known as Den Bosch (), is a city and municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 157,486. It is the capital of the province of North Brabant and its fourth largest by population. The city is south of th ...

. After three seasons in Den Bosch he returned to Oranje-Rood in the summer of 2021.

International career

Galema's first call-up for the national team was for the 2012–13 Hockey World League Semifinal in

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. Galema was a part of the Dutch squad which won a bronze medal at the 2013 European Championship and a silver medal at the

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. After 2017, he was not called up for two years but he returned in the national team for the 2019 FIH Pro League. In June 2019, he was selected in the Netherlands squad for the 2019 EuroHockey Championship. They won the bronze medal by defeating

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4–0. In December 2020, he was dropped from the national team's training squad for the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Galema, Jelle 1992 births Living people People from Boxtel Field hockey players from North Brabant Dutch male field hockey players Male field hockey forwards 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players Oranje Zwart players HC Oranje-Rood players HC Den Bosch players Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players