'I Won One Of The Most Important Tournaments Of My Career'
Ferrari Named MVP In Sotogrande Win
"I won one of the most important tournaments of my career," Gonzalo Ferrari said after Dubai, the team fielding Ali Albwardy, lifted the Copa de Oro, the Gold Cup, at the 55th Torneo Internacional de Polo, staged by Minuto 7 at Ayala Polo Club in Sotogrande, where Ferrari was named MVP and his mare, Dubai Mamma Mia, earned a rug, the blanket presented to a tournament's best playing pony.
Gonzalo Ferrari, a 25-year-old Argentinian, was playing his first season in Sotogrande when the campaign delivered both individual and team honours inside the same tournament. Dubai's run to the Copa de Oro stood in contrast to the Copa de Plata, the Silver Cup, contested by the same team across the wider Minuto 7 season, which Dubai lost to Amanara, a result Ferrari addressed directly when speaking about the balance of his season as a whole.
Reflecting on the tournament in his interview, Ferrari pointed to the strength of the Dubai lineup as the deciding factor behind the Copa de Oro triumph, distinguishing it from the narrower margins that separated the sides in the Copa de Plata final against Amanara. The MVP award and Dubai Mamma Mia's recognition as best playing pony gave Ferrari's Sotogrande debut a distinction that extended well beyond the team result alone, marking his first campaign in the Spanish season as one that produced individual as well as collective reward across both of the tournament's finals.
Cowdray Success Came First In Season
Before arriving in Sotogrande, Ferrari had already added another title to his season, winning the Cowdray Gold Cup alongside Gaston in a final that came at the expense of Dubai, the same team he would later share a Sotogrande trophy presentation with in Spain. The two results, arriving on opposite sides of a single European season, gave Ferrari a campaign notable for both winning against and alongside some of the same rivals inside the space of a few months, a detail he returned to when asked about how the season had taken shape.
Ferrari's route through the Cowdray and Sotogrande fixtures placed him at the centre of two of the season's most closely watched finals, and he used the PoloLine interview to set out what had made the difference at each. The Copa de Oro success, he said, rested on a squad balance that Dubai could call upon when it mattered, while the Copa de Plata defeat to Amanara reflected a tighter contest decided by fine margins rather than any clear gap between the sides.
The Cowdray Gold Cup result also carried extra significance given the identity of the beaten finalist. Having played a role in denying Dubai that trophy earlier in the season, Ferrari found himself on the winning side of a Dubai lineup by the time the Sotogrande campaign reached its own final, a swing in fortunes across the two fixtures that he touched on when discussing the season's overall shape and the different roles he had occupied in each result.
Triple Crown Awaits Back In Argentina
With two further competitions remaining in the Minuto 7 season at Ayala Polo Club, Ferrari's immediate focus after Sotogrande turns to Argentina, where he is set to contest the Triple Crown for Hiper Polo Club alongside Teodoro Lacau, Francisco Elizalde and Torito Ruiz Jorba. The Argentine series follows directly on from a European campaign in which Ferrari's name featured across three separate trophy results inside a matter of weeks.
Ferrari's account of the season, given to PoloLine on 31 August 2026, traced a path from the Cowdray Gold Cup win through the Sotogrande finals to the Triple Crown ahead in Argentina, a run of fixtures that has established the 25-year-old among the season's most discussed young players. His return to Hiper Polo Club reunites him with a trio of teammates alongside whom he will look to carry the momentum of the European season into the Argentine campaign that follows.
The Sotogrande season continues with two more Minuto 7 fixtures at Ayala Polo Club before attention shifts fully to the South American calendar, where Ferrari, Lacau, Elizalde and Ruiz Jorba will make up the Hiper Polo Club lineup for the Triple Crown, closing out a run of tournaments that has taken Ferrari from Cowdray to Sotogrande and now on to Argentina inside the space of a single season, with the Copa de Oro, the Cowdray Gold Cup and MVP honours all collected along the way.