Facundo Pieres
| Facundo Pieres | |
|---|---|
 Facundo Pieres, having just won the US Open Polo Championship 2012 with team Zacara. | |
| Born |
May 19, 1986 Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province |
| Occupation | Polo Player |
| Parent(s) | Gonzalo (Snr) & Cecilia |
Facundo Pieres born May 19, 1986 in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province is a professional Argentine polo player with a 10-goal handicap.
Biography
Facundo was born into a family of polo players and is the second son of polo legend Gonzalo Pieres Sn and Cecilia Rodríguez Piola. His siblings are Gonzalo Pieres, Nicolas Pieres also a professional polo players, 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, 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 Queen’s Cup (England), though he didn’t take part 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.
He started playing in the Campeonato Argentino Abierto de Polo (Argentine Open) in 2003 and made it into the finals twice (2005 and 2007) with Ellerstina. After losing these in extra-time only, and winning the Tortugas Open 2008. The new team of Ellerstina to 2014 is comformed by: Facundo Pieres 10, Gonzalo Pieres (h) 10, Mariano Aguerre 9 and Nicolas Pieres 9 He was promoted to handicap 10 at age 18.