Alejandro Diaz-Alberdi
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Alejandro Diaz-Alberdi is an 8-goal professional polo
Polo
Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Sometimes called, "The Sport of Kings", it was highly popularized by the British. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a...

 player. He was at one stage in his career rated at 10 goals, the highest handicap
Polo handicap
A polo handicap is a system created by Henry Lloyd Herbert, first president of the United States Polo Association, at the founding of the USPA in 1890 so teams could be more evenly matched when using players with varying abilities....

 a player can receive. Diaz-Alberdi, formerly a player on the Larchmont team and Dubai Polo Team
Dubai Polo Team
The Dubai Polo Team is a successful high goal polo team based in Windsor. The Teams Patron Ali Albwardy also owns the Desert Palm Polo Club in Dubai. Adolfo Cambiaso is a regular player on the Dubai team along side Ali's sons Tariq and Rashid. Other prominent players to have been on the team...

, currently plays for Habtoor Polo
Polo
Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Sometimes called, "The Sport of Kings", it was highly popularized by the British. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a...

 Team in the UK.

During a 20 year career Diaz-Alberdi has won many of the top competitions including the Argentine open
Campeonato Argentino Abierto de Polo
The Campeonato Argentino Abierto de Polo is the most important international polo championship at club level, that has taken place every year since 1893 at the Catedral del Polo in Palermo barrio in Buenos Aires, Argentina.It was known as the River Plate Polo Championship between 1893-1923, and as...

in 1996.
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