Pablo Mac Donough
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Pablo Mac Donough is a 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 from Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 with a 10-goal 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.

Biography

Mac Donough was born in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

 on 21 February 1982. He began playing polo with his family at a young age.

Career

His career has included wins in 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...

 (2), the British Open (1), the Hurlingham Open (4), the Queen's Cup (2), the Tortugas Open (5) and the C.V. Whitney Cup (1). Mac Donough has also played in Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

, winning the Sottogrande Gold (2) and Silver Cups. Won Camara de Diputados (2), Ellerstina Gold Cup 2006. In Argentina he has played alongside his brother, Matias Mac Donough, and his cousins Gonzalo
Gonzalo Pieres
Gonzalo Pieres, Jr. born December 17, 1982 in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province is a professional Argentine polo player with a 10 goal handicap. Currently, he is ranked number 2.- Biography :...

 and Facundo Pieres
Facundo Pieres
Facundo Pieres born May 19, 1986 in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province is a professional Argentine polo player with a 10-goal handicap. Currently, he is ranked number 2.- Biography :...

.

In 2010, Mac Donough played in the United Kingdom with the 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...

 and won the Queen's Cup and the British Open. In Argentina with Ellerstina, he has won the Jockey Club Open, Tortugas Open, Hurlingham Open and 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...

. This makes Ellerstina the first team since La Aguada, in 2003, to win the Argentine Triple Crown of polo.
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