Bosco Pérez-Pla | |
Full Name: | Bosco Pérez-Pla de Alvear |
Birth Date: | 26 September 1987 |
Birth Place: | Madrid, Spain |
Height: | 1.80 m |
Weight: | 78 kg |
Position: | Defender |
Youthclubs1: | Club de Campo |
Years1: | 2004–2013 |
Clubs1: | Club de Campo |
Years2: | 2013–2014 |
Clubs2: | Ranchi Rhinos |
Years3: | 2013–2015 |
Clubs3: | HGC |
Years4: | 2015–2021 |
Clubs4: | Club de Campo |
Years5: | 2021–2022 |
Clubs5: | Leuven |
Nationalteam1: | Spain |
Nationalcaps1: | 142 |
Bosco Pérez-Pla de Alvear (born 26 September 1987) is a Spanish former field hockey player who played as a defender a total of 142 times for the Spanish national team until 2017.
At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he competed for the national team in the men's tournament.[1]
Born in Madrid Pérez-Pla started playing for Club de Campo at the age of four. In the winter of 2013, Perez-Pla won the first Hockey India League with the Ranchi Rhinos.[2] He left Club de Campo after the 2012–13 season to play for HGC in the Dutch Hoofdklasse.[3] He extended his stay at HGC for one more season in March 2014.[4] After two seasons with HGC he returned to Club de Campo.[5] In the 2020–21 season, he was the captain of the Club de Campo team which won their first ever Spanish national title.[6] After the championship he announced his retirement as a hockey player.[7] This retirement was not final as on 22 August 2021 it was announced he would join Leuven in the Belgian League for one season.[8]
2004, 2005, 2011, 2012