Martín Ignacio Ferreiro (born 21 October 1997) is an Argentine

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player who plays as a forward for German Bundesliga club Crefelder HTC and the Argentine national team.

Club career

Ferreiro played for

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in Argentina until 2019. He joined Pinoké in the Dutch

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for the 2019–20 season. After two season in the Netherlands he moved to Belgium to play for Gantoise in

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. He only stayed there for one season as he moved to Germany to play for Crefelder HTC in the summer of 2022.

International career

Ferreiro made his debut for the senior national team at the

2018 South American Games The 2018 South American Games was a multi-sport event that took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It was the 11th edition of the ODESUR South American Games. A total of 373 sporting events are scheduled to be contested across a variety of sports. ...

. In July 2019, he was selected in the Argentina squad for the

2019 Pan American Games The 2019 Pan American Games (), officially the XVIII Pan American Games () and commonly known as Lima 2019, were a multi-sport event governed by the Panam Sports Organization held in Lima, Peru from July 26 to August 11, 2019, with preliminar ...

. They won the gold medal by defeating

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5-2 in the final. He made his

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debut at the

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Honours

;Argentina U21 * Pan American Junior Championship:

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;Argentina * Pan American Games gold medal:

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

* Pan American Cup:

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

* South American Games gold medal:

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ferreiro, Martin 1997 births Living people Argentine male field hockey players Male field hockey forwards Competitors at the 2018 South American Games Field hockey players at the 2019 Pan American Games South American Games gold medalists for Argentina South American Games medalists in field hockey Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Pan American Games gold medalists in field hockey Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players Men's Belgian Hockey League players Argentine expatriate field hockey players Argentine expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Place of birth missing (living people) Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games La Gantoise HC players 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players 21st-century Argentine sportsmen Men's Feldhockey Bundesliga players Pinoké players