Daniel Vargas (volleyball)

{{short description|Mexican volleyball player (born 1986)}}

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| name = Daniel Vargas

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| caption = Vargas, while he played for Pumas and studied Electrical Engineering at UNAM

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|9|1 |df=y}}

| birth_place = Mexico City, Mexico

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| college = National Autonomous University of Mexico

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| currentclub = Iraklis Thessaloniki

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| years = 2014, 2016

| teams = {{flagicon|MEX}} Pumas UNAM

| nationalyears = 2014-

| nationalteam = {{flagicon|Mexico}} Mexico

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Daniel Vargas (born 1 September 1986) is a Mexican male volleyball player, a member of Mexico men's national volleyball team, where he played at the Olympic Games 2016 Rio, and at the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship in Poland.{{cite web |title=Team Roster 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship – Mexico |url=http://poland2014.fivb.org/en/competition/teams/MEX-United_States/team_roster |work=poland2014.fivb.org |date= |accessdate=12 October 2015}} Before joining the national team, Daniel played for Pumas UNAM, while doing his masters and undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).{{cite web |title=Daniel Vargas Goes to the Olympics |url=http://www.gaceta.unam.mx/20160804/daniel-vargas-a-los-juegos-olimpicos/date= |accessdate=12 October 2015 }}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Career

During the summer of 2016, Vargas along with Mexico men's national volleyball team, ended their 48-year absence in the Olympic Games, when they secured the final place at stake for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games through the World Olympic Qualification Tournament, which took place in their home turf in Mexico City.{{cite web |title=Mexico – Olympic Games |url=http://rio2016.fivb.com/en/volleyball/men/teams/mex-mexico |accessdate=17 August 2016}}

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