Bartolomé Castagnola

Bartolomé Castagnola, nicknamed Lolo, is an Argentine polo player born on 16 June 1970 in Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province, who formerly held a 10-goal handicap and was ranked among the top twenty players. He began playing seriously at fourteen, when his father took him to the La Martina Polo School, where he met Adolfo Cambiaso. He played abroad from 1988, winning the San Diego Open, and later won the Sotogrande Gold Cup, the US Open, the USPA Gold Cup, the Queen's Cup and the Hurlingham Open. He played the Argentine Open fourteen times, winning it six times, and in 2000 co-founded the La Dolfina team with Cambiaso before founding La Natividad in 2011.