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10 Jul, 2021 @ 12:00
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Number One Polo player in world is star attraction at Spain’s Sotogrande

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Polo Hurlingham Open La Dolfina Santa Maria De Lobos
Argentina's polo star player Adolfo Cambiaso of La Dolfina Polo Team, during their 114 Hurlingham Open polo match against Santa Maria de Lobos, in Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 27 October2007. La Dolfina won by 20-15. Photo by Alejandro Pagni/PHOTOXPHOTO

IT’S enough to give Jilly Cooper palpitations. Argentine hunk and top ranked polo player in the world Adolfo Cambiaso is squeezing into his jodhpurs and heading for Spain this summer.

He will be the star attraction as Sotogrande hosts the 50th edition of its International Polo Tournament from July 26 to August 28.

Vital to bringing the glamorous star back to the field of the wealthy enclave in Cadiz for the first time in five years has been the restoration of the tournament to the very highest tier of the polo world – the High Handicap category.

Polo Hurlingham Open La Dolfina Santa Maria De Lobos
Argentina’s polo star player Adolfo Cambiaso. Photo by Alejandro Pagni/PHOTOXPHOTO/Cordon Press

The three most prestigious clubs in Sotogrande – Ayala, Dos Lunas and Santa Maria – are co-hosting the event and plan to put on a spectacular series of activities to entertain between chukkas.

These will help reinforce the tournament’s position as one of the highlights of the high-society social scene in Spain.

It is one of the traditional places to see and be seen – and everyone can join in. So, if you happen to be in the area, pop along – admission is free.

Jilly – the Mistress of the Bonkbuster who regularly set her books in the polo world – once said: “Anyone looks good in jodhpurs,” but she might have added about Adolfo “but some look better than others !” 

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Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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