Lucas Martínez Ruiz (born 17 November 1993) is an Argentine

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player who plays as a forward for Belgian club

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and the Argentine national team.

Club career

Martínez played for Club Ferrocarril Mitre in Argentina before he moved to Europe to play for

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, Spain. The forward scored eight goals in his first season in Europe. He left the Madrid-based club in 2016 to play for

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in the

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. After two seasons with HGC, 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 ...

from

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. With Oranje-Rood he made his debut in the

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. It was announced in May 2020 that he would join

in Belgium for the 2020–21 season.

International career

Martínez played with the Argentina U21 squad at the 2012 Pan American Junior Championship, the

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, and the 2013 Junior World Cup before he made his debut for the main squad in 2014 at the

2014 South American Games The 2014 South American Games was a multi-sport event that took place in Santiago, Chile. It was the 10th edition of the ODESUR South American Games. Santiago hosted this event for the second time, the first being in 1986. Most of the events took ...

. He won the gold medal at that tournament and made four goals. He was also part of the Argentina squad which won the bronze medal at the

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, which was his first

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. In 2018 he was selected for the

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, where he scored two goals in four matches. 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.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Martinez, Lucas 1993 births Living people Argentine male field hockey players Field hockey players from Buenos Aires Male field hockey forwards Competitors at the 2014 South American Games 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2019 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2023 Pan American Games South American Games medalists in field hockey South American Games gold medalists for Argentina Pan American Games medalists in field hockey Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Club de Campo Villa de Madrid players HGC (field hockey) players HC Oranje-Rood players KHC Dragons players Men's Belgian Hockey League players División de Honor de Hockey Hierba players Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players Expatriate field hockey players Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Argentine expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Argentina