Rodrigo Garza Barbero is a field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 defender/midfielder from Spain

Spain

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. He represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000.

After the Athens Games (2004), where the Spain

Spain national field hockey team

The Spain national field hockey team represents Spain in the international field hockey competitions. The team, coached by Dutchman Maurits Hendriks since 2002, competed in every World Cup since the first edition in 1971. Spain is ranked fourth in the world, as of June 30, 2008...

 finished in fourth position, Garza moved to The Netherlands, where he joined HC Den Bosch

HC Den Bosch

Hockeyclub 's-Hertogenbosch is a Dutch field hockey club, which was founded on July 14, 1937 in 's-Hertogenbosch. With a total number of 1.977 members it is currently the sixth hockeyclub in the Netherlands....

 in the Dutch Premier League, called Hoofdklasse. He moved on to national champions HC Bloemendaal

HC Bloemendaal

Hockey Club Bloemendaal is a Dutch field hockey club, which was established on April 16, 1895, and is therefore one of the oldest field hockey clubs in the Netherlands...

 in the spring of 2007, and became champion of premier Dutch league in the 2008 and 2009 season, winning also the European Hockey League in his last season with the club.
Since September 2009 he is playing for HGC, a Dutch team near The Hague, which is also in the Dutch Premier League.

Born and raised in Madrid, Spain, he started to play Hockey at his hometown school Colegio Valdeluz and then promoted through respective categories until reaching premier Spanish league "División de Honor" playing with San Pablo Valdeluz (later on Ssang Yong Valdeluz). He then moved to play for Club de Campo Villa de Madrid

Club de Campo Villa de Madrid

Club de Campo Villa de Madrid is a country club located in Madrid, Spain. The club was formed in 1929, and is regarded as one of the most prestigious in the country...

 before arriving to Holland.

Garza has been many times junior and senior champion and runner up in both field and indoor Hockey, participating in several Euro championships: Padova, Barcelona

Barcelona

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, Leipzig

Leipzig

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 and Manchester

Manchester

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. He has participated in two Hockey World Cup

Hockey World Cup

The Hockey World Cup is an international field hockey competition organised by the International Hockey Federation . The tournament was started in 1971...

s in Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur

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 and Mönchengladbach

Mönchengladbach

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. He achieved a major success by winning the first Champions Trophy for Spain in 2004 at the National Hockey Stadium in Lahore

Lahore

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, Pakistan

Pakistan

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 and ending runner up in 2008 edition celebrated in Rotterdam

Rotterdam

Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...

, Holland.