Nickname: Pototo
Age: 18
Handicap: 1
Where he plays: La Legua
Girlfriend: No
Studies: Economia en la UBA
Prefer Horse: Seras Mortadela
Tournaments won: Estimulo Cup |
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Alejandro Novillo Astrada
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Nickname:
Negro
Age:
19
Handicap: 4
Where
he plays:
La Aguada/La Cañada
Girlfriend:
Catalina Zavaleta
Studies:
Di Tella
Prefer
Horse:
El Refusilo from Ignacio Novillo Astrada
Tournaments
won:
Metro Mediano, Eduardo Heguy, Charro Mexicano, Clasificación
al mundial |
Nickname:
Nito
Age:
20
Handicap: 4
Where
he plays:
Puerta Abierta
Girlfriend:
Martina
Studies:
Business Administration
Prefer
Horse:
What ever Pepe Heguy (his brother in law) gives me.
Tournaments
won:
Potrillitos, Potrillos, Torneos Internacionales de chicos
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Nickname:
Cubi
Age:
20
Handicap: 5
Where
he plays:
Praderas
Girlfriend:
No
Studies:
Business Administration
Prefer
Horse:
La Lady y El Cartucho
Tournaments
won:
Metro Bajo, Otoño, Estimulo, E.Heguy |
How
was this team formed?
M.URANGA: I decided to get together and play with Ignacio
Toccalino.
A.N.ASTRADA: I was already playing with Cubi (Ignacio Toccalino)
for the season. We had more or less formed the teams, but
after a call from Mariano, we decided to join both of them,
and that is how this team was made up.
Which
team made it most complicated for you to classify?
M.URANGA: We played every single game as if it were the
finals. The one that made it most complicated for us was
the Zorrilla and Fernández Llanos team. That time they played
well and we played badly, but we were lucky because in a
few moves we scored three goals, and we won by one goal.
During the finals some horses were lent to us as backups.
El Negro (Alejandro Novillo Astrada) lent me some of his.
We began the semifinals and the finals in a totally different
way. In the last game we were lucky because they failed
to score two goals at the end which would have changed the
outcome completely.
A.N.ASTRADA: In my opinion the quarterfinals was the most
complicated game.
I.TOCCALINO: In my opinion every single game was complicated.
T.MAIQUEZ: The Pando team that played the round of sixteen
was also very good.
M.URANGA: El Negro received all the horses from the brothers.
Pepe Heguy lent me a few horses. We were lucky we didn't
use the same horses too often.
T.MAIQUEZ: Although we never used our horses more than once
during the finals, the Pieres horses, in spite of being
tired, were better than ours.
How did you prepare for this tournament?
M.URANGA: Well, I am playing quite a lot with El Negro,
and I had been playing quite a bit with Cubi as well.
A.N.ASTRADA: They'd come home and practice quite a lot.
Cubi and I played for the Eduardo Heguy Cup and El Metro
Mediano. We had known Tomy forever but had never played
together.
Regarding horses, are you organized? Do you prepare lists
before playing?
T.MAIQUEZ: Our organization was good.
M.URANGA: There was only a list for the semifinals and the
finals.
A.N.ASTRADA: I don't know if it had that much to do with
the lists, but Nito and I agreed to cover each other whenever
there was a weak chukker.
Who was the team's replacement?
M.URANGA: During the first games there was no replacement,
though at the end our replacements were El Negro's brothers
as well as Tomas's
What do you think about the new classification system?
M.URANGA: I think it is very good because you become a lot
more acquainted by the time you reach the World Cup.
A.N.ASTRADA: We got better with every match we played.
M.URANGA: We played the last games by heart.
T.MAIQUEZ: I think that the more pressure we were under
the better we played.
M.URANGA: In every game we scored a difference during the
last two chukkers. I think this is really positive coming
from a team that will be playing in a World Cup Tournament.
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