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Full name | Belén Iglesias Marcos | ||||||||||||||||
Born | Madrid, Spain | 6 July 1996||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
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Current club | Großflottbeker THGC | ||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||||||||
2016–2017 | Spain U–21 | 13 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
2017– | Spain | 49 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
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Belén Iglesias Marcos (born 6 July 1996) [1] is a field hockey player from Spain, who plays as a forward. [2]
Belén Iglesias was born and raised in Madrid, Spain. She is the younger sister of Álvaro Iglesias, who plays for the Spanish men's national team. [3]
Iglesias plays hockey for Großflottbeker THGC. [4] Previously she represented Club de Campo in the División de Honor in Spain, [5] [6] and UHC Hamburg in the German Bundesliga. [7]
In 2016, Iglesias was a member of the Spanish Under–21 team at the FIH Junior World Cup in Santiago. [8]
She followed this up with an appearance at the 2017 EuroHockey Junior Championship in Valencia where the team finished fifth. [9]
Iglesias made her debut for the Spanish national team, the 'Red Sticks', in 2017. [8]
In 2019, she won her first medal with the national team, taking home bronze at the EuroHockey Championships in Antwerp. [10]