Adolfo Cambiaso
Adolfo Cambiaso (born April 15, 1975 in Cañuelas , Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine polo player with a handicap of 10. In 2017, he was number 1 in the world rankings. His nicknames are Adolfito or Dolfi .
Life
Early years
Like most Argentine polo players, Adolfo grew up on an estancia (farm). His parents Adolfo Cambiaso (Sen.) and Martina de Estrada Lainez owned the polo school "La Martina" near Cañuelas. So it is not surprising that his mother encouraged him and his half-brothers Marcial and Salvador Socas to play polo. Originally he received tennis lessons, but he did not last long because he had to train too much and he preferred to do something with horses.
When he was 12 years old, he already had a handicap of +1. A year later, with a handicap of 3, he won the Eduardo Heguy Cup with the La Martina team, which also included his father. His career as a professional player began at 14 when he won the Campaña del Desierto Cup with the San Diego team in 1989 . A year later he won the Renault Cup Open with La Martina and he was upgraded to handicap 6.
1990 to 1994
Adolfito won 24 tournaments in Argentina, the USA and England for teams like La Martina, Ellerstina / Ellerston and others. In 1994 he won the "Triple Corona" (winning the Argentine Open , Hurlingham Open and Tortugas Open in one year) with Ellerstina (consisting of Cambiaso, Mariano Aguerre , Gonzalo Pieres sen. And Carlos Gracida ) and at the age of 19 he will be the youngest Player upgraded to handicap 10 in Argentina, having received this handicap for the US two years earlier.
1995 to 1999
He continued to play for La Martina, Ellerstina / Ellerston, White Birch and Outback, won a total of 31 tournaments, including two more the Argentine Open (1997 and 1998), and founded his own team La Dolfina in 1997 together with Bartolomé Castagnola .
2000 to 2004
During this period he took home 33 trophies. He quits playing for Ellerstina but has success with his own team, with whom he won the 2002 Argentine Open . In England he plays for the Dubai team, with whom he won the Queen's Cup three times and the Gold Cup twice, along with other tournament wins.
2005 until today
Cambiaso's La Dolfina team developed into one of the best teams today and won another four times (2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009) at the Argentine Open.
In 2005, the team beat opponent Ellerstina 20-19, the highest result in a final of the Open. He continued to play successfully for Team Dubai in England and became team captain for Crab Orchard in the USA, where he brought home trophies from the US Open and the USPA Gold Cup.
In 2008 his team lost in the final of the Argentine Open one goal behind Ellerstina.
In 2009 Cambiaso is the captain of the Argentine team for the Coronation Cup in England, which clearly wins his team 12-5 against the English team.
In the final of the Argentine Open 2009 Cambiaso faces Ellerstina again with La Dolfina. Again the final will only be decided in extra time, La Dolfina wins 17-16. He is named the tournament's top scorer and receives the Lady Susan Townley Cup for his horse "Dolfina Cuartetera".
In 2010 he won the US “Triple Crown” with Crab Orchard and the Queen's Cup and the Gold Cup in Great Britain. In Argentina, his team La Dolfina met Ellerstina again in the final of the Argentine Open , but lost one goal behind.
In 2011 Cambiaso was able to win the Argentine Open in Palermo again with La Dolfina, but in 2012 the victory went to Ellerstina.
From 2013 to 2017 Cambiaso won the Argentine Open every year with La Dolfina.
Résumé
He is considered the best polo player in the world alongside Juan Carlos Harriott . He took part in the Argentine Open 17 times (up to and including 2010), won 8 times and played another 6 times in the final, scoring over 560 goals, breaking Bautista Heguy's record with 531 goals.
He has received numerous awards, including the Olimpia Plata as the most important Argentine polo player in 1997 (and several times thereafter) and the Olimpia de Oro as Argentina's Sportsman of the Year in 2014 . In 1997 he was named "Best Player in the Argentine Open Final" and in 1998 for his record of 67 goals in the Argentine Open. Countless times he has also been named “Most Valuable Player” (MVP) as the most valuable player in a polo match.
Horses
Cambiaso started breeding polo ponies around 2000 . Today there are around 1000 horses on his horse farms. Most of the horses he rides come from his own breeding and he has already received several awards at the Exposicion La Rural (agricultural show in Buenos Aires).
His most famous horses are Lili , Ilusión , Sospechosa , La Osa and his favorite Colibrí . But one of his best horses was the famous stallion Aiken Cura . Unfortunately, in the Argentine Open 2006, the horse broke its left foreleg in the final minutes of the game, so it had to be euthanized in January 2007. Today his most famous horses are Mambo , Buenaventura and his successful mare Dolfina Cuartetera .
2006 2009 was Dolfina Cuartetera honored by the "Association Argentina de Criodores de Caballos de Polo" as the "best Argentine polo horse." In 2009 and 2010 she was awarded the Lady Susan Townley Cup. Dolfina Cuartetera belonged to the La Dolfina polo club . She was pulled and ridden by Cambiaso.
In 2016 Cambiaso won the Argentine Open with La Dolfina . He competed with six mares named Cuartetera 01 to 06, all of whom are clones of Cuartetera .
Private life
Cambiaso has been married to the Argentine model María Vazquez since 2001, with her he has three children: Mia was born in 2002, his son Adolfo in 2005 during a preliminary round game of the Open against Centauros-Beaufort, which Cambiaso left after the fourth chukka to live with his wife To assist hospital. In September 2010, daughter Myla was born. The family lives on an estancia near Vicente Casares (near Cañuelas), 60 km south of Buenos Aires.
Web links
- Profile on World Polo Tour ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- La Dolfina
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ranking
- ↑ Olimpias de oro www.cpd.com.ar. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
- ^ Association of breeders of Argentine polo horses , queried on May 4, 2015
- ↑ Dolfina Ácido T / E , accessed on May 4, 2015
- ↑ Aiken Cura ( Memento from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The fine art of polo: Striking images reveal pony clones , Horsetalk.co.nz, January 4, 2018
- ↑ Six cloned horses help rider win prestigious polo match , Jon Cohen, Science , December 13, 2016
- ↑ Interview with Maria Vazquez ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ María Vázquez dio a luz a Myla Cambiaso. Diarioveloz, accessed October 13, 2010 (Spanish).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cambiaso, Adolfo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adolfito; Dolfi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | argentinian polo player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cañuelas , Buenos Aires |