Nicolás Enrique Della Torre (born 1 March 1990) is an Argentine

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player who plays as a midfielder or forward for

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club

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and the Argentina national team.

Club career

Della Torre played in Argentina for

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. When he became the top scorer of the Argentinian league in 2017, he transferred to the Netherlands to play for

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. Due to problems with getting an Italian passport to be eligible to play in the Netherlands, he could not play for Den Bosch in the first half of the 2017–18 season. He played in

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for

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during the 2017 Dutch winter break. In April 2019, he agreed to play for Leuven from the 2019–20 season onwards. In his final season for Den Bosch he scored 13 goals which made him the seventh highest top scorer of the season. After one season he left Leuven for

. In his first season he won the Belgian league title.

International career

Della Torre won his first medal with the national team at the 2013 South American Championship. In June 2015 he was selected for the

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, where they won the gold medal. He made his

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debut at the

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Honours

International

;Argentina * Pan American Games gold medal:

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* Pan American Cup:

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Club

;Terengganu * TNB Cup: 2017 ;Dragons *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Della Torre, Nicolas 1990 births Living people Field hockey players from Buenos Aires Argentine male field hockey players Male field hockey midfielders Male field hockey forwards Field hockey players at the 2015 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2023 Pan American Games Pan American Games medalists in field hockey Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina HC Den Bosch players Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players Expatriate field hockey players Argentine expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Malaysia Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Men's Belgian Hockey League players KHC Leuven players KHC Dragons players Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players