Miquel Delàs de Andres (born 13 April 1984) is a Spanish

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player who plays as a defender or midfielder for

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and the Spanish national team. At the

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, he competed for the

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in the men's tournament. He also competed for the team in the

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Club career

Miquel started playing hockey at a really young age at FC Barcelona. He left them in 2007 for Atlètic Terrassa HC because he wanted to win titles. After five seasons with Atlètic, he went to Belgium to play for

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, where he also played for five seasons. After ten years away from his boyhood club, he returned to Barcelona in 2017.

International career

The defender has been playing for the Spanish national team since 2005 and has registered 218 caps since. In 2017, he became the captain of the national team, which he is still today. He was selected for the

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, which was his third

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. He only played one game in that tournament because he got injured in the first match against

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. In August 2019, he was selected in the Spain squad for the 2019 EuroHockey Championship. They won the silver medal as they lost 5–0 to

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in the final. On 25 May 2021, he was selected in the squad for the 2021 EuroHockey Championship.

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* 1984 births Living people Spanish male field hockey players Male field hockey defenders Male field hockey midfielders Field hockey players from Barcelona 2010 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Spain Atlètic Terrassa players Men's Belgian Hockey League players División de Honor de Hockey Hierba players Spanish expatriate field hockey players Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Belgium 20th-century Spanish people Spanish male indoor hockey players 2007 FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup players 21st-century Spanish sportsmen {{Spain-fieldhockey-bio-stub