Eduardo Esteban Martínez (born 25 September 1961 in Necochea

Necochea

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) is a retired volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

 player from Argentina

Argentina

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, who represented his native country in four Summer Olympics, starting in 1984 (Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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).

Martínez was a member of the men's national indoor team

Argentina men's national volleyball team

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 that claimed the bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics

1988 Summer Olympics

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 in Seoul, South Korea. In the 1990s he started a career in beach volleyball

Beach volleyball

Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....

, partnering Martín Conde

Martín Conde

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in two consecutive Summer Olympics: 1996 and 2000.