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Marcos started playing on his father’s cattle ranch in Argentina when he was just nine years old. “We’d use anything for a bridle, anything for a saddle. It was ranch polo,” he explained.
In Argentina, ranch polo attracts youngsters the way a D. C. school basketball court draws would-be NBA stars during summer vacation. While polo in Argentina ' doesn’t have soccer’s crowds of spectators, it’s as popular as baseball is here, according to Marcos. The country has over 150 professional clubs and of the top ranked ten goal handicapped players, tops in the field, all six hail from Argentina. By comparison, the best the U. S. has are three nine goal h*ndtc«»playaa,.>r._. ,
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