Valentin Verga

Valentin Verga (born 7 October 1989) is an Argentine-born Dutch field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or forward for Almere.

Club career Verga has played his whole senior career for Amsterdam. In the Dutch winter break in 2017, he was the first Dutch player to play in the Malaysia Hockey League, he played for Terengganu. In the winter of 2019, he returned to Malaysia, this time he played for UniKL.

International career At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the national team in the men's tournament, winning a silver medal. He was also part of the Netherlands 2016 Summer Olympic team. After the 2019 European Championships he returned in the national team for the FIH Olympic Qualifier against Pakistan. In February 2020 he was dropped from the national team's training squad for the 2020 Summer Olympics.