Moritz Fürste is a field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 player from Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. He was a member of the Men's National Team

Germany national field hockey team

The Germany national field hockey team represents Germany in international field hockey. The team have won the 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup in Mönchengladbach, Germany...

 that won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics

2008 Summer Olympics

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 and at the 2006 World Cup

2006 Men's Hockey World Cup

The 2006 Hockey World Cup for men is the 11th edition of the Hockey World Cup. It held from September 6 to September 17, 2006 in Mönchengladbach, Germany....

. He plays at the Uhlenhorster hockey club

Uhlenhorster HC

Uhlenhorster Hockey Club is a German field hockey club in Hamburg, which is the oldest-established hockey club in Germany.Uhlenhorster is one of the reigning clubs in Germany, both at the Senior and Academy levels, with squads successful in the Bundesliga and in the Euro Hockey League...

 in Hamburg. He's captain of the team. He has guided his team to success in the Euro Hockey League

Euro Hockey League

The Euro Hockey League is an annual mens field hockey cup competition organised by the EHF for the very top hockey clubs in Europe. The competition was launched at the start of the 2007-08 hockey season, when it merged and replaced the mens EuroHockey Club Champions Cup and European Cup II...

 on two occasions, winning the title in 2007-2008

Euro Hockey League 2007-08

The Euro Hockey League 2007–08 is the inaugural season of new introduction field hockey tournament from European Hockey Federation, Euro Hockey League...

 and 2009-2010

Euro Hockey League 2009-2010

The Euro Hockey League 2009/2010 is the third Season of the Euro Hockey League, which is the most important club tournament in European hockey. The competition is organised jointly by the European Hockey Federation and Dutch Media and Marketing agency Pro Sport, with Dutch Bank ABN AMRO being the...

. Fuerste also helped his team to a second place finish in the competition in the 2008-2009

Euro Hockey League 2008-09

The Euro Hockey League 2008-09 was the second edition of the competition succeeding the EuroHockey Club Champions Cup. It was won by HC Bloemendaal, attaining its third European Cup.-Pool A:All matches were played in Amsterdam, The Netherlands...

 Season, when they were defeated by HC Bloemendaal

HC Bloemendaal

Hockey Club Bloemendaal is a Dutch field hockey club, which was established on April 16, 1895, and is therefore one of the oldest field hockey clubs in the Netherlands...

of The Netherlands. He was named as the Euro Hockey League's Most Valuable Player in the 2007-2008 and 2009-2010 Seasons.

External links

• Fürste at the German Hockey Federation