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Lucas Rafael Rossi (born 2 June 1985) is an Argentine
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player who plays as a midfielder for Belgian club Braxgata and the Argentine national team.


Club career

Rossi played for Banco Provincia in Argentina. During the 2005–06 season, he played for
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in the
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. He returned to Europe for the 2007–08 season when he signed for Orée in Belgium. He left Orée in 2010 for Léopold. After one season at Léopold he returned to Argentina to focus on the national team in preparation for the
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. After the 2012 Olympics he returned to Léopold. Since 2015 he plays for Royal Beerschot. It was announced in March 2021 that he would join Braxgata for the 2021–22 season.


International career

At the
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, Rossi competed for the
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in the men's tournament. He was a part of the Argentina squad which won the gold medal at the
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. Rossi has won the bronze medal at the
2014 Men's Hockey World Cup The 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup was the 13th edition of the Hockey World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national field hockey teams organized by the FIH. It was held from 31 May to 15 June 2014 at the Kyocera Stadion in The Ha ...
and two gold medals at the
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. He retired from international hockey after the
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to spend more time with his family. In October 2019, he returned in the national team as he was called up for the October 2019 Europe tour.


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* 1985 births Living people Field hockey players from Buenos Aires Argentine male field hockey players Male field hockey midfielders Field hockey players at the 2007 Pan American Games 2010 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2011 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics 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 Olympic field hockey players of Argentina Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Olympic gold medalists for Argentina Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in field hockey South American Games gold medalists for Argentina South American Games medalists in field hockey Competitors at the 2006 South American Games Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Expatriate field hockey players Men's Belgian Hockey League players Royal Beerschot THC players Harvestehuder THC players Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Royal Léopold Club players Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Argentine people {{Argentina-fieldhockey-bio-stub