Rodrigo Garza

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Medal record
Rodrigo Garza
Men’s Field Hockey
Competitor for Spain
European Championship
Gold	2005 Leipzig	Team
Silver	2007 Manchester	Team
Champions Trophy
Gold	2004 Lahore	Team
Bronze	2005 Chennai	Team
Bronze	2006 Terrassa	Team
Champions Challenge
Gold	2003 Johannesburg	Team

Rodrigo Garza Barbero (born December 3, 1979 in Madrid) is a field hockey defender/midfielder from Spain, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000.

After the Athens Games (2004), where the Spain finished in fourth position, Garza moved to The Netherlands, where he joined HC Den Bosch in the Dutch Premier League, called Hoofdklasse. He moved on to national champions HC Bloemendaal in the spring of 2007.

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