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

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player who plays as a midfielder or forward for Belgian Hockey League club

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and the Argentina national team.

Club career

Della Torre played in Argentina for Ciudad de Buenos Aires. 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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* South American Championship:

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Club

;Terengganu * TNB Cup: 2017 ;Dragons * Belgian Hockey League:

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References

External links

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Nicolás Della Torre
at the

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Della Torre, Nicolas 1990 births Living people Field hockey players from Buenos Aires Argentine male field hockey players Argentine expatriate field hockey players Argentine expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Malaysia Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Male field hockey midfielders Male field hockey forwards HC Den Bosch players Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players Men's Belgian Hockey League players KHC Leuven players KHC Dragons players 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players Olympic field hockey players for Argentina Field hockey players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists in field hockey Pan American Games field hockey players for Argentina Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Field hockey players at the 2015 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2023 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games 21st-century Argentine sportsmen