Adolfo Cambiaso
Adolfo Cambiaso ( born April 15, 1975 in Cañuelas, Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine polo player with a handicap of 10, he reached No. 1 in the world rankings. His nicknames loud Adolfito or Dolfi.
Life
Early years
Like most Argentine polo player, Adolfo also grew up on an Estancia ( farm). His parents Adolfo Cambiaso ( Sen. ) and Martina de Estrada Lainez was the polo school " La Martina " at Cañuelas. So it is not surprising that his mother him and his half-brothers and Marcial Salvador Socas encouraged to play polo. He originally received tennis lessons, he not long held by because he had to train too much, and he would rather 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 included his father. At 14, started his career as a professional player, as he gave the Campaña del Desierto Cup won with the San Diego team in 1989. A year later he won with La Martina at the Renault Cup Open and he was promoted to handicap 6.
1990-1994
Adolfito won 24 tournaments in Argentina, the USA and England for teams like La Martina, Ellerstina / Ellerston and others. In 1994 he won with Ellerstina (consisting of Cambiaso, Mariano Aguerre, Gonzalo Pieres sen., And Carlos Gracida ) the "Triple Corona" ( winning the Argentine Open, Hurlingham Open and Tortugas Open in one year) and with 19 years as by then recently Players promoted to handicap 10 in Argentina, two years earlier he already won this handicap for the U.S..
1995-1999
He continued to play for La Martina, Ellerstina / Ellerston, White Birch and Outback, won a total of 31 tournaments, including two more times, the Argentine Open ( 1997 and 1998), and his own team La Dolfina founded in 1997 together with Bartolomé Castagnola.
2000-2004
During this period, he wears 33 trophies home. He stops to play for Ellerstina, but has had success with his own team, with whom he 2002, the Argentine Open win. In England, he plays for the Dubai team with which he three times the Queen's Cup and twice won the Gold Cup, among other tournament wins.
2005 to today
Cambiaso's La Dolfina team became one of the best teams in the present, and won four more times (2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009) at the Argentine Open. In 2005, the team beat the opponent with Ellerstina 20-19, the highest score in a final of the Open. He continued to play successfully for the team in Dubai England and was team captain for Crab Orchard in the U.S., where he brought cups of the U.S. Open and the USPA Gold Cup home. In 2008 his team lost in the final of the Argentine Open with a goal behind against Ellerstina. 2009 Cambiaso captain of the Argentine team for the Coronation Cup in England, which clearly 12-5 wins his team against the English team. In the final of the Argentine Open 2009 Cambiaso is with La Dolfina again Ellerstina opposite. Again, the final will be decided after extra time, La Dolfina wins 17-16. He is honored as top scorer of the tournament and wins the Lady Susan Townley Cup for his horse " Dolfina Cuartetera ". In 2010, he wins with Crab Orchard the American "Triple Crown " and in the UK the Queen's Cup and the Gold Cup. In Argentina, his team La Dolfina met again in the final of the Argentine Open to Ellerstina, but loses by one goal behind.
Summary
He is, alongside Juan Carlos Harriott, as the best polo players in the world viewed. He has (until 2010) participated 17 times in the Argentine Open, won 8 times and further played 6 times in the final, where he scored more than 560 goals, giving the record of Bautista Heguy broken with 531 gates.
He has received numerous awards, including 1997 ( and then again several times ) the Olimpia Plata as the most important Argentine polo player. In 1997 he was awarded " Best player in the final of the Argentine Open " and in 1998 for his record of 67 goals in the Argentine Open. He receives countless occasions the honor of " Most Valuable Player " (MVP) as the most valuable player in a polo match.
Horses
His most famous horses are Lili, Ilusión, Sospechosa, La Osa and his favorite Colibri. But one of his best horses was the famous stallion Aiken Cura. Unfortunately, the horse broke into the Argentine Open 2006 in the final minutes of the game left front leg. Despite its advanced treatment Aiken Cura had to be euthanized in January 2007. Today its famous horses Mambo, Buenaventura and Cuartetera are. He has now made himself a name as a horse breeder. So the horses he plays himself come, for the most part from his own breeding and he has already won several awards on the Exposicion La Rural ( agricultural exhibition in Buenos Aires ).
Private life
Cambiaso is married to Argentine model Maria Vazquez since 2001, with her he has three children: Mia was born in 2002, his son Adolfo 2005 during a preliminary round game of the Open against Centauro -Beaufort, the Cambiaso left after the fourth chukka to his wife in assist hospital .. In September 2010, daughter Myla came to the world. The family lives on a ranch in Vicente Casares (near Cañuelas ), 60 km south of Buenos Aires.