Nicolás Cicileo (born 1 October 1993) is an Argentine

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player who plays as a defender for the

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club

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and the Argentine national team.

Club career

Cicileo played for Ciudad de Buenos Aires in Argentina until 2015, when he moved to Europe to play for

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

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in the

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. 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 that 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

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

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. 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 gold medalists in field hockey Pan American Games field hockey players for Argentina 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 21st-century Argentine sportsmen