Facundo Pieres
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Cecilia Pieres
Facundo Pieres | |
|---|---|
 Facundo Pieres, having just won the US Open Polo Championship 2012 with team Zacara. | |
| Born | May 19, 1986 |
| Occupation | Polo player |
| Spouse |
Agustina Wernicke (m. 2014) |
| Parent(s) | Gonzalo Pieres Cecilia Pieres |
Facundo Pieres (born May 19, 1986) Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province is a professional Argentine polo player with a 10 goal handicap. In October 2022, he was ranked number one by the World Polo Tour, but fell to number two, behind Adolfo Cambiaso, in early 2023.[1]
Facundo was born into a family of polo players and is the second son of polo legend Gonzalo Pieres and Cecilia Rodríguez Piola. His siblings are Gonzalo Pieres, Nicolas Pieres, also a professional polo player, Tatiana Pieres, and Cecilia Pieres.
His career started in 1997, when he won the Copa Potrillos with the Ellerstina Jr. team, which was a subsidiary team for the Ellerstina Club founded by his father and Australian media tycoon, Kerry Packer. Since then, he played in Argentina, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He has won the Hurlingham Open, Tortugas Open and Jockey Club Open (all in Argentina among other tournaments. In 2008, he won the Cartier Queen's Cup, though he didn’t participate in the final match because of an injury, and in 2013 on the team of Zacara played with Lydon Lea, Hilario Ulloa, and Matias Gonzalez.
