Rodrigo Nicolas Vila (born 23 October 1981 in

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the Capital city, capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata ...

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, t ...

) is a

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shootin ...

striker from

, who made his debut for the national squad in 1998 and competed for his native country in the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...

, the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics. His brothers

Matías Matías is the Spanish version of Matthias. In Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish) and in Portuguese it is unaccented as Matias. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Matías Alemanno, Argentine rugby pla ...

and Lucas are also a field hockey internationals for Argentina. Rodrigo has won three medals at the

Pan American Games The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The competition is hel ...

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* * 1981 births Living people Argentine male field hockey players Male field hockey forwards Olympic field hockey players of Argentina Field hockey players from Buenos Aires Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2007 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2011 Pan American Games World Series Hockey players Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Pan American Games silver medalists for Argentina Pan American Games medalists in field hockey South American Games gold medalists for Argentina South American Games medalists in field hockey Competitors at the 2006 South American Games Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games 21st-century Argentine people {{Argentina-fieldhockey-bio-stub