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Facundo Pieres
10 Goal player Facundo Pieres was born into a family of polo players and is the second son of polo legend Gonzalo Pieres Senior and Cecilia Rodríguez Piola and brother of Gonzalo Pieres Junior and Nicolas 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, UK and USA. He has won the Hurlingham Open, Tortugas Open and Jockey Club Open in Argentina among other tournaments. In 2008, he won the Queen’s Cup in England, though he didn’t take part in the final due of an injury. In 2013 he won the Queen's Cup and the Gold Cup with Zacara. In 2014 he won the Queen's Cup with Zacara, in 2015 the Queen's Cup and Gold Cup with King Power Foxes, in 2016 and 2017 the Gold Cup again with King Power and in 2018 the Queen's Cup with La Indiana

He started playing in the Argentine Open in 2003 winning it in 2008, 2010 and 2012

Facundo has also won the US Open on three occasions.