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Full name | Albert Sala Moreno | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Terrassa, Spain | 15 July 1981|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Albert Sala Moreno [lower-alpha 1] (born 15 July 1981) is a field hockey player from Spain, who finished in fourth position with the Men's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. [1]
After having played for Atlètic Terrassa for several years, he moved to The Netherlands in the summer of 2006, and started to play for Stichtse Cricket en Hockey Club in Bilthoven.
Albert Sala Moreno graduated from the Johan Cruyff Institute in the International Master of Sport Management.
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