Nicolás Cicileo (born 1 October 1993) is an Argentine

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 ...

player who plays as a defender for

Belgian Hockey League The Belgian Hockey League, also known as the Belgian Elite League, was the highest level of competition organized by the Royal Belgian Ice Hockey Federation. The league winner was crowned the Belgian Champion. The league had been in existence sinc ...

club

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and the Argentine national team.

Club career

Cicileo played for

Ciudad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...

in Argentina until 2015 when he moved to Europe to play for

Club de Campo Club de Campo Villa de Madrid is a country and sports club located in Madrid, Spain. The club was formed in 1929, and is one of the most known in the city. It has a wide array of sports facilities including two championship 18-hole golf courses, ho ...

in Spain. During the 2015–16 Spanish winter break he played for

Terengganu Terengganu (; Terengganu Malay: ''Tranung'', Jawi: ), formerly spelled Trengganu or Tringganu, is a sultanate and constitutive state of federal Malaysia. The state is also known by its Arabic honorific, ''Dāru l- Īmān'' ("Abode of Faith"). ...

in the

Malaysia Hockey League The Malaysia Hockey League (MHL) is a top league competition for field hockey clubs in the Malaysian hockey league system. There are, at present, seven teams in the Malaysia Hockey League. The competition has been played since 1987. At present a ...

. He played three seasons for Club de Campo. After those three seasons he moved to the Netherlands to play for Klein Zwitserland. In April 2020, it was announced he would join Daring in Belgium for the 2020–21 season. After two seasons in Brussels he left Daring for

International career

He represented Argentina at the

2018 Men's Hockey World Cup The 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup was the 14th edition of the Hockey World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national field hockey teams organized by the International Hockey Federation, FIH. It was held from 28 November to 16 Decem ...

. 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.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cicileo, Nicolas 1993 births Living people Field hockey players from Buenos Aires Argentine male field hockey players Male field hockey defenders 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Pan American Games medalists in field hockey Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Malaysia Argentine expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Argentine expatriate field hockey players Club de Campo Villa de Madrid players HC Klein Zwitserland players Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players División de Honor de Hockey Hierba players Men's Belgian Hockey League players Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Argentina Royal Daring players 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players