KEENAN Nicolas Santiago

General
NO PRESSURE
He comes from a family with a strong tradition of representing Argentina in hockey. His grandfather, father and two uncles represented the national team. In 2019 he made his own debut for Argentina. "It was a dream. Since I was a young kid I only heard at home about the national team and that my father played in this World Cup and my uncle in that. To be fair, many people say it might be a pressure, but in reality it's the contrary. It's an honour for me. And all my family support me." (Confederacion Argentina de Hockey Sobre Cesped y Pista Facebook page, 25 Feb 2019; navarronoticias.com, 03 May 2018)

EARLY CAREER
He has been living in Europe since he was a child, following his father who was a hockey player and later became a coach. When he lived in Italy he used to go on holiday to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he began playing hockey at the Ciudad de Buenos Aires club. "Then all the family went to Spain because my father played hockey, and there I began playing with the Egara team, where I played until I was 18." (Hockey Delivery YouTube channel, 24 Feb 2019)