Germán Mariano Orozco is a field hockey

Field hockey

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 defender from Argentina

Argentina

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, who made his debut for the national squad

Argentina national field hockey team

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 in 1994. He competed for his native country in the 2000 Summer Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

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 and the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

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He studied kineology at the University of Salvador in Buenos Aires. Aged six, he started to play hockey at the Banco Nacional de Desarrollo Club. He is nickname

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d Pi Pa. Orozco is playing club hockey, as of 2005, in Germany

Germany

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, at a club in Hamburg

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. In January 2006 he moved to Dutch champions Oranje Zwart

Oranje Zwart

Mixed Hockeyclub Oranje Zwart is a Dutch field hockey club located in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, which was founded on September 1, 1933. With around 1.700 members – as of May 31, 2006 – it is one of the biggest clubs in the Netherlands....

 from Eindhoven.