The 2008

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, eight edition, took place in

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during May 2008 and was won by

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Background

This event will bring together eight teams from around the world in the Campo Marte of the Mexican capital, where they will play the finals, and all three pitches Tecamac

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, located in the state of Mexico, the Federal District neighboring entity. Already confirmed the selections are classified as at the end of 2007 completed the classification process. The seleccions participating are:

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

, as reigning world champion in the category;

, as host country,

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and

. Mexico received the headquarters of the event thanks to the work of the entrepreneur Pablo Rincón Gallardo Corcuera, known as Mr.Polo in the Mexican community in the years and winner of 70 Cup Avila Camacho and Eduardo Sólorzano Barrón, holders Propolo century. The institution was unable to continue with the completion of the project because of the death in 2006 of Rincon-Gallardo. Since the start of efforts to achieve headquarters Propolo century was supported by the

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''Bailleres'' who continue as sponsors via El Palacio de Hierro, one of the companies it owns. A decision was taken to seek support for the International Polo (FIP) in the form of a postponement of the

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. Originally open on November 20, 2007. The international governing body accepted at the same time that a new Organizing Committee took over concretize the tournament. Group headed by polista Alfredo Solorzano and the

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of the Mexican Federation of Polo, Rogelio Igartúa.

Fixture and results

Pool results

Knockout stages

References

External links

Federation of International Polo website

Chilean Federation of Polo
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