Argentine Polo is undoubtedly the best of world, having been World Champions since 1949 continuously until today. Many international tourists travel to Argentina nowadays to enjoy a day trip to the Argentine fields to play or watch a Polo Match.
The ideal circumstances for this sport are given in the Campo Argentino de Polo, where he played from 1870.
It was reported by English landowners and quickly adopted by the Creoles ranchers, who as history knew the “Pato”, which since 1610 played by gauchos on horseback, fighting a duck inside a stitched leather, to which they added 2 or 4 handles or handles, to grab it.
The features of this game are similar to polo, and currently plays as another sport, but both maintain the same environment field.
The Hurlingham Club was the first place where Polo was played around Buenos Aires.
There are now over 3000 in Argentina polo players. Some of them own high handicap internationally, belonging to different generations of traditional families of the Argentine countryside, as siblings and cousins Bautista, Horacio, Alberto and Eduardo Heguy, Juan Carlos Harriot, Alfredo Harriot, Adolfo Cambiasso (striker opened 2000), Enrique Alberdi, John A. Traill, Mariano Aguerre, Javier Novillo Astrada.
In the city of Buenos Aires, in the Campo Argentino de Polo, (Av. Del Libertador and Dorrego), the Argentine Open Polo Championship, internationally renowned disputed. The season begins in August, usually in courts in the northern suburbs of Buenos Aires, culminating in December in Palermo.
Horses for Argentine polo ponies are highly sought called on the international market for its quality, speed and endurance. In the country many specialized breeders.
Argentina Polo Team
Polo team is the representative of Argentina Polo Argentina internationally. The Argentina team currently holds the title of World Champion Pole, and has historically been one of the strongest in the world, winning two gold medals at the Olympics and is the most wins the World Polo Championship with four titles in the years 1987, 1992, 1998 and 2011.
Anyway, today the country has no stable selection, which can align their best players. This is because Argentina has the strongest league in the world polo players higher handicappers in the world and the best teams in the world. The Argentine polo level is unmatched; to maintain international competitiveness, the Federation of International Polo (FIP) has ruled that the maximum handicap for the World Team Championship Polo is 14 goals. Argentina is the only team that could actually be more than one national team handicap 40, ie all players have 10 goals in this category, the highest worldwide.
Argentina at the Olympic Games
In two appearances, Argentina has won two gold medals. In the 1924 Olympics and the 1936 Summer Olympics.
In 1924 Argentina represented by Arturo Kenny, John Miles, William Naylor, John Nelson and Enrique Padilla, beat Spain, United States and England, beating France by 15 goals to 2 in the final 1936 was the last time that polo was an Olympic sport. Argentina formed with Luis Duggan, Roberto Cavanagh, Andrew Gazzotti and Manuel Andrada and beat UK in the final.
Argentina on world
The Argentina team won a total of 4 world, was second and third one in two. Has traditionally been the absolute dominator, but in 2004 was elminada in the first round and in 2008 not involved in the world, by not participating in the standings. This was because they did not take into account this tournament and was dedicated to its powerful league has no handicap limit, unlike this tournament has a 14-goal handicap. In 2011 he managed to return to their usual internationally staying with gold in the World Polo Championship in San Luis Estancia Grande.
