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{{Short description|Uruguayan sports club}}
{{Infobox athletics club
| name         = Carrasco Polo club
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| image        = Carrasco Polo Club Crest.svg
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| fullname     = Carrasco Polo Club
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| founded      = {{Start date and age|1933}}
| ground       = Cno. Brig. Gral. Servando Gómez 2749 
| location     = [[Carrasco, Montevideo]], <br> [[Uruguay]]
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| leader_title = President
| leader_name  = Santiago Slinger <ref>[http://www.cpc.com.uy/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=115 Directiva del Club on CPC website], 19 Oct 2014</ref>
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| league(s)    = [[Campeonato Uruguayo de Rugby|Campeonato Uruguayo]] (Rugby)
| activities   = [[Equitation]], [[field hockey]], [[association football|football]], [[polo]], [[rugby union]], [[tennis]]
| affiliations = [[Uruguayan Rugby Union|URU]] (Rugby)
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| website      = {{URL|http://www.cpc.com.uy/|cpc.com.uy}} 
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'''Carrasco Polo Club''' is a Uruguayan [[sports club]] from the [[Carrasco, Montevideo|Carrasco]] neighbourhood of [[Montevideo]]. Its name references directly the [[polo]] team and the fact that Carrasco has one of Uruguay's leading equestrian centres. Apart from polo, the club hosts a large variety of sports, such as [[equitation]], [[field hockey]], [[association football|football]], [[rugby union]] and [[tennis]].<ref>[http://www.cpc.com.uy/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=104 "Deportes competitivos" at club website]</ref>

The rugby union team currently competes in [[Campeonato Uruguayo de Rugby|Campeonato Uruguayo]], the first division of Uruguayan league system. Carrasco Polo is the most successful rugby club of Uruguay, with 28 championships won.<ref>[http://www.uru.org.uy/index.php/institucional/campeones Campeones at URU website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009151028/http://www.uru.org.uy/index.php/institucional/campeones |date=October 9, 2014 }}</ref>

The club's main rival is [[Old Christians Club|Old Christians]].

==History==
[[File:Sede del Carrasco Polo Club en 2021.jpg|thumb|left|Carrasco clubhouse]]
Carrasco Polo Club was founded as an [[equestrianism|equestrian]] club in 1933 by 40 former members of recently dissolved Montevideo Polo Club, that had been established 3 years earlier. The first president designed by an assembly was Pedro Barcia, who led the club until 1944. Between 1949 and 1952 Carrasco Polo built its new facilities and polo fields.<ref>[http://www.cpc.com.uy/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=112 Institucional - Historia at club website]</ref>

In 1949, "rugby criollo" was introduced into the Carrasco Polo Club, which not unlike the [[Montevideo Cricket Club]] (MVCC), would become more renowned for rugby than the sport it was named for.<ref name=Richards2>Richards, p164, Chapter 9 ''From Muller to Mias''</ref>

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In 1950, the first edition of [[Campeonato Uruguayo de Rugby|Campeonato Uruguayo]] was held, being contested by Old Boys, Colonia Rugby, and multisport clubs such as the MVCC and Carrasco Polo (which supplied two XVs).<ref name=Richards2/>

Carrasco Polo Club was transformed by the coaching of Amarillo Washington, who used scientific methods to replace the earlier habits of "training hard, but then after matches going to the bar to eat and drink everything."<ref name=Richards3>Richards, Chapter 13, ''Resisting the Inevitable'', p236</ref> Carrasco's leading player Diego Ormaechea had been introduced to the sport as a fifteen-year-old in 1976 and was still playing for club and country more than twenty years later.<ref name=Richards3/>

In 1993, Carrasco Polo Club beat a [[Buenos Aires]] squad which included 14 [[Argentina national rugby union team|national team]] players.<ref name=Richards3/> The [[2003 Rugby World Cup]] finals squad had 12 players from Carrasco Polo Club. [[Diego Ormaechea]], considered the best Uruguayan rugby union player of all time, played all his career at Carrasco. He's currently the head coach of the rugby union team.

==Honours==
;Rugby union
*'''[[Campeonato Uruguayo de Rugby|Campeonato Uruguayo]] (28)''': 1952, 1961, 1966, 1981, 1983, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2020

==Bibliography==
* Richards, Huw ''A Game for Hooligans: The History of Rugby Union'' ([[Mainstream Publishing]], [[Edinburgh]], 2007, {{ISBN|978-1-84596-255-5}})

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* {{official website}}

{{Uruguay Rugby Clubs}}

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