Matías Alejandro Rey (born 1 December 1984) is an Argentine

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player who plays as a defender for the Argentine national team. Rey joined

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in Spain in 2005 and after fifteen consecutive seasons, he will return to Argentina at the end of 2020.

International career

He competed in the field hockey competition at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

, where he won the gold medal. In July 2019, he was selected in the Argentina squad for the

2019 Pan American Games The 2019 Pan American Games ( es, Juegos Panamericanos de 2019, links=no), officially the XVIII Pan American Games and commonly known as the Lima 2019 Pan-Am Games or Lima 2019 ( qu, Limaq 2019), were a multi-sport event governed by the Panam Spo ...

. They won the gold medal by defeating

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5-2 in the final. He was named the Player of the Tournament at the

2022 Men's Pan American Cup The 2022 Men's Pan American Cup was the sixth edition of the Men's Pan American Cup, the quadrennial international men's field hockey championship of the Americas organised by the Pan American Hockey Federation. It was planned to be held alongsid ...

where he won his third Pan American Cup with the national team.

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* Living people 1984 births Field hockey players from Buenos Aires Argentine male field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for Argentina Male field hockey defenders 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2007 Pan American Games 2010 Men's Hockey World Cup players 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2015 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2019 Pan American Games Olympic gold medalists for Argentina Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Pan American Games silver medalists for Argentina Olympic medalists in field hockey Pan American Games medalists in field hockey Real Club de Polo de Barcelona players División de Honor de Hockey Hierba players Expatriate field hockey players Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Competitors at the 2022 South American Games South American Games gold medalists for Argentina South American Games medalists in field hockey 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players 21st-century Argentine people {{Argentina-fieldhockey-bio-stub