Adolfo Cambiaso (Polo Player).
Summary
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- 1 Biography
- 2 Adolfo Cambiaso is the 2014 Golden Olympia
- 3 Adolfo Cambiaso, on foot: the other life of the best polo player in the world
- 4 But none of that is his thing.
- 5 How Adolfo Cambiaso overcame the most “painful” year of his career
- 6 Fuente
Biography
Born on April 15, 1975 in Cañuelas, Buenos Aires, he is an Argentine polo player, considered by many to be the best player in the world and one of the best of all time.
Adolfo Cambiaso is the 2014 Golden Olympia
The polo player Adolfo Cambiaso was awarded the 2014 Olimpia de Oro, which is awarded by the Circle of Sports Journalists of Argentina to the most outstanding athlete of the year. For the second consecutive year, he won the Triple Crown (Turtles Open, Hurlingham Open and Argentine Open in Palermo) of Argentine polo. He was also champion in England and the United States and in the year he won 49 of his 51 games played.
The Argentine sports festival took place in the Green Room of La Rural and was attended by the Secretary of Sports of the Nation, Carlos Mauricio Espínola; the head of the Argentine Olympic Committee , Gerardo Werthein, and the Chief of Staff of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
The Circle also awarded the Olimpia de Plata, among others, to José María López in motorsports, Emanuel Ginóbili in basketball, Omar Narváez in boxing, Angel Di María in foreign soccer, Lucas Pratto in local soccer, Angel Cabrera in golf, Paula Pareto in judo, Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe in rugby and Sebastián Crismanich in taekwondo.
Adolfo Cambiaso, on foot: the other life of the best polo player in the world
The man who has won everything in polo, and who has also done everything to make his sport transcend, prefers the simplicity of a Milanese with the family to the glamor of a meal with royalty; “We have everything to be well as a country, but we are not; that makes me angry,” he says. I have traveled the world. The Queen of England gave me the Queen’s Cup eight times. Batistuta asked to meet me and today he is my friend. Maradona stood for three hours encouraging me at the palenque, in a game. Lomu came to see me play. I have been invited everywhere. It’s so nice to be recognized like this. But… I’m honest: royalty does not mobilize me. I would not like to be in the head of the queen, but I would like to be in that of Federer, Nadal or Maradona in 1986, when she scored the goal against the English. And, as I always say,
But none of that is his thing.
His world is another when he is not mounted on a horse. His world is what can be seen at dawn on Wednesday, for example: sitting at the table in his house, in Cañuelas, hungry, he waits for his wife, María Vázquez, to prepare him something to eat. If they are Milanese, better. None of the couple’s three children are present. It’s almost three in the morning and both Mia, the eldest; Like Adolfito and Myla, they sleep in their rooms. He is no longer wearing the uncomfortable suit he wore up until a while ago. He dresses from home, with a white shirt and a cap on his head, inevitable. He looks like another day. But not. It is different, although he has done what he always does. First, the Riccheri.
Then the highway to Cañuelas. Immediately, the descent Alejandro Pettion. Further on, the La Dolfina club. And, finally, his house. On the way that the polo player, For many, the best in history, always travels to escape the popularity that he knew how to conquer from his talent, this time he had a new company: the Olimpia de Oro. Not a few athletes would be celebrating the distinction in a massive party. What’s more: due to the social preconceptions that exist around polo, many will have imagined that the hours following the winning of the award were a celebration of pure glamor. But no: Riccheri, highway… and if there are Milanese, the better. Adolfo Cambiaso dwells in the labyrinth of paradoxes. He is the best in a sport in which he never fit in.
And he never will. An activity branded as classist, which he always tried to make more popular. He has been fighting for many years. Almost since he started in the activity, back in the late 80s. ” I contributed my grain of sand so that everyone knows more about polo”, he says, and he does not hide his pride. “My place in the world is Argentina”, he also often repeats. He feels so much that his light blue and white helmet is an international emblem. When he talks about the country, his voice takes on a different intensity: “I like to represent my country. I would love for things to improve. As there are bad politicians, there must be good ones too… I don’t see people well. They are all very nervous. There is a lack of work and the value of money has been lost. I don’t know whose fault it is, but the country is falling apart. I, without knowing anything, can say that from being very bad, Néstor Kirchner raised us. But then we fell again. We have a spectacular country, we have to take better care of it together.” My place in the world is Argentina”, he also often repeats.
He feels so much that his blue and white helmet is an international emblem. When he speaks of the country, his voice takes on a different intensity. “I like to represent my country. I would love for things to improve. As there are bad politicians, there must be good ones too… I don’t see people well. They are all very nervous. There is a lack of work and the value of money has been lost. I don’t know whose fault it is, but the country is falling apart. I, without knowing anything, can say that from being very bad, Néstor Kirchner raised us. But then we fell again. We have a spectacular country, we have to take better care of it together.” My place in the world is Argentina”, he also often repeats. He feels so much that his blue and white helmet is an international emblem.
When he speaks of the country, his voice takes on a different intensity. “I like to represent my country. I would love for things to improve. As there are bad politicians, there must be good ones too… I don’t see people well. They are all very nervous. There is a lack of work and the value of money has been lost. I don’t know whose fault it is, but the country is falling apart. I, without knowing anything, can say that from being very bad, Néstor Kirchner raised us. But then we fell again. We have a spectacular country, we have to take better care of it together.” his voice takes on a different intensity. “I like to represent my country. I would love for things to improve. As there are bad politicians, there must be good ones too… I don’t see people well. They are all very nervous.
There is a lack of work and courage has been lost of money. I don’t know whose fault it is, but the country has been falling. I, without knowing anything, can say that if we were in a very bad way, Néstor Kirchner lifted us up. But then we fell again. We have a spectacular country, we have to take better care of each other.” his voice takes on a different intensity. “I like to represent my country. I would love for things to improve. As there are bad politicians, there must be good ones too… I don’t see people well. They are all very nervous.
There is a lack of work and courage has been lost of money. I don’t know whose fault it is, but the country has been falling. I, without knowing anything, can say that if we were in a very bad way, Néstor Kirchner lifted us up. But then we fell again. We have a spectacular country, we have to take better care of each other.” without knowing anything, I can say that from being very bad, Néstor Kirchner raised us. But then we fell again. We have a spectacular country, we have to take better care of it together.” without knowing anything, I can say that from being very bad, Néstor Kirchner raised us. But then we fell again. We have a spectacular country, we have to take better care of it together.”
How Adolfo Cambiaso overcame the most “painful” year of his career
2014 was almost perfect in terms of results for the polo player, but also very hard physically; the people who helped him overcome injuries that came close to preventing him from playing. The podium, the trophies, the affection right there, the plaque for the Triple Crown, the phone call and the photos with his bosses from abroad… In his best dreams, all that could have been together. And he got it. It was like the culmination of an almost ideal 2014 in sports. Just on the verge of turning 40, Dolfi rounded off the best year in terms of results in a beastly career, in which cups and titles fell out of the windows out of abundance. But it was also the most difficult year personally.
Not because of emotional feelings, but because of physical sensations: Adolfito had to deal with a body that takes its toll on him a little due to age but more due to the battles, the foreign horses to which his ability exposed him. A few days before the start of the Argentine Open, he walked hunched over in pain. And shortly before the definition of the area he was about to be hospitalized due to the suffering caused by the sciatic nerve. And now, starting tomorrow, he must take medicine for two weeks and leave polo for a month. He will make you happy, with so much glory on top.
Not only for this 11th Palermo in his pockets and this third Triple Crown, but also for everything he collected outside the country. He raised two cups out of three in the Palm Beach season (the best after Argentina), in which he lost the US Open without playing the final due to injury. Two out of three in England, with only one knockout loss. Three out of three in Spain. And already in Buenos Aires, the Hockey Open and the Tortugas/Hurlingham/Palermo triad. Colossal.
