XI FIP World Championships

This week sees the much-awaited beginning of the FIP XI World Championships in Sydney, Australia. Players from eight nations across the world have been travelling to Australia over the past month and set about readying their forces for the upcoming tournament. Polo ponies have also been making lengthy journeys across the continent to take part in the matches. Approximately 250 ponies have travelled the length and breadth of the country to show their speed and ability on the world stage.
The Zone qualifying stages begin today, Tuesday 17 October, with the Final falling on Sunday 29 October. Polo Times will be reporting from Sydney, so make sure to subscribe here so you don't miss out on all the exciting updates. 
The competing national squads are made us as follows:
Zone A
Australia: Jack Archibald, Alec White, Jacob Daniels, Daniel O’Leary, Jack Kiely, James Lester, Lachlan Gilmore, George Hill & Alexander Barnet
Spain: Pelayo Barazadi, Mario Gòmez, Antonio Ayesa, José Trénor, Jaime Serra & Ricardo Trujillo
Argentina: Tomás Panelo, Valentín Novillo Astrada, Ivan Maldonado, Ignacio Bello, Hector Guerrero, Lucio Fernandez Ocampo, Estanislao Grahn & Gernonimo Fanello
USA: Jesse Bray, Felipe Viana, Daniel Galindo, Kenneth Wright, Matías González, Cari Scherer, Carlos Arellano II & Wesley Finalyson

Zone B
Chile: Pablo Villela, Francisco Martinez, Antonio Eguiguren, Jose Miguel Pereira, Ignacio Vial, Romano Vercellino, Andrés Vial, Jose Ignacio Martinez, Martín Arrau & Agustín Von Unger
New Zealand: Glenn Sherriff, Kim Brooks, Guy Higginson, Cody Forsyth, Nick Jeure, Henry Jones, Sam Martin, Jonny Jones, Adam Harvorth & Mark Duncan
England: Satnam Dhillon, Henry Porter, Peter Webb, Josh Cork, Ed Banner-Eve, Sam Gairdner, Jack Berner & Adolfo Casabal
India: Ravi Rathore, Dhruv Pal Godara, Angad Kalaan, Siddhant Sharma, Padmanabh Singh, Panav Kapur & Uday Kalaan

Photograph: Action from the FIP X World Championships. Courtesy of FIP