Sébastien Dockier

Sébastien Dockier
Personal information
Born	28 December 1989
Height	175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	74 kg (163 lb)
Playing position	Forwards
Club information
Current club	Pinoké - Amstelveen
Youth career
	Royal Beerschot
Senior career
National team
Men's field hockey
Representing Belgium
Olympic Games
World Cup
European Championships
World League

Sébastien Dockier (born 28 December 1989) is a Belgian field hockey player who plays for Dutch club HC 's-Hertogenbosch and the Belgium national team as a forward.

Dockier comes from a real hockey family; not only his father and sister but even aunts and cousins have been playing field hockey.[1]

Club career

During his youth, he played for Royal Beerschot THC, where he played in the first team until 2014, when he left to play for Dutch club HC Den Bosch. After three seasons with Den Bosch, he went back to his former club.[2] He played there for one season before returning to the Netherlands to play for Den Bosch again.[3][4]

International career

He became European vice-champion with Belgium at the 2013 EuroHockey Championships on home ground in Boom and at the 2017 EuroHockey Championships in Amstelveen, Netherlands. He was a part of the Belgian squad which won the silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He was selected for the 2018 World Cup, which will be his second World Cup.[5]

References

"Sebastien Dockier helemaal vergroeid met hockeystick". Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). 14 August 2013.
Scholte, Jolien (10 March 2017). "Dockier vertrekt bij Den Bosch, Van Groesen en Verboom tekenen bij". hockey.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 30 November 2018.
Rooijakker, Lennaert (17 April 2018). "Sébastien Dockier keert na Belgisch avontuur terug bij HC Den Bosch". bd.nl (in Dutch). Brabants Dagblad. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
Barreveld, Merel (18 April 2018). "Belg Sébastien Dockier keert terug bij Den Bosch". hockey.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 30 November 2018.
"De selectie van de Red Lions voor het WK". hockey.be (in Dutch). 4 November 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2018.

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[1] "Sebastien Dockier helemaal vergroeid met hockeystick". Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). 14 August 2013.

[2] Scholte, Jolien (10 March 2017). "Dockier vertrekt bij Den Bosch, Van Groesen en Verboom tekenen bij". hockey.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 30 November 2018.

[3] Rooijakker, Lennaert (17 April 2018). "Sébastien Dockier keert na Belgisch avontuur terug bij HC Den Bosch". bd.nl (in Dutch). Brabants Dagblad. Retrieved 30 November 2018.

[4] Barreveld, Merel (18 April 2018). "Belg Sébastien Dockier keert terug bij Den Bosch". hockey.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 30 November 2018.

[5] "De selectie van de Red Lions voor het WK". hockey.be (in Dutch). 4 November 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2018.