June is the season for horses in the UK, and races on horses, including the Queen's annual live call to the Royal Jockey Club, are in full swing.
Different from horse racing and equestrianism, polo competition is the most intense and testing sport in which horses participate.
It is said that this is a sport that can only be played with an annual salary of 30 million pounds, and it is also deeply related to the British royal family and nobles.
Prince William and Prince Harry also turned over on horseback and fought bravely.
Look at the two brothers playing polo.
Recently, the first Chinese professional polo team in the Uk was a great success in its home debut!
Last weekend, Chinese professional polo team China Qilin opened at sarri's home stadium against local Burningfold polo teams. The galloping horses and the fierce snatching of polo by the players who do not give in to each other truly reflect the unity of man and horse.
During the one-hour confrontation, the audience was full of blood, emotions were high, and they shouted on the sidelines.
Surrey Deputy Sheriff Tony Samuels was present and said he would give strong support to Britain's first Chinese polo team.
After the match, Burningfold polo team member Niall Donnelly praised the Kirin polo team: "As the first game, the Kirin team performed really well, to be honest I was quite surprised. It was the first run-in of their teammates, unlike me and my players, who have been playing together for five years. ”
"I especially like the Masks of the Kirin Team. One is to provide protection for the face, and the other is to make people feel very mysterious and elusive. They came to them, and they couldn't tell whether they were happy or angry. ”
The Kylin Polo Team is the only polo team founded by Chinese athletes in the British Polo Professional League, and the only team to wear a mask to play, which is eye-catching and mysterious.
The team's founder, Chinese polo player Qiu Yicao, said that it was a polo mask he personally designed to commemorate the Northern Qi wu god Lanling King, "on the one hand, it can promote Chinese culture in polo sports, and on the other hand, it is also to protect the face." ”
At halftime, there's an old and interesting spectator ball game experience, divot stomping.
The turf is lifted by the galloping and sudden stops of the horses, and when the midfield whistle at the end of the second tour of the game is blown, the spectators can go to the court to find the turf that has been turned over and work hard to stabilize the turf to restore the entire pitch to level, at this time the laughter sweeps away the tense atmosphere of the game, and can also get close to the docile war horses.
The Qilin team now has more than 20 horses, and Qiu Yicao is a number of family treasures in the stables, with the names, temperaments and characteristics of the horses.
Qiu Yicao said, "The Chinese Qilin team is a polo team full of patriotic blood, if I play for the British team, it can only be called survival, and in the British land, there are Chinese people's own teams, fighting for China, I think this is meaningful." ”
The Kirin team is made up of players of different nationalities. Qiu Yicao said that they have no prejudice or conflict with each other, and they have come together through mutual appreciation, love, respect and recognition of Chinese culture.
The team members referred to Qiu Yicao as "Mr. Fearless", saying that he was not afraid of injury on the field, heroic and invincible, and his words were full of praise and admiration for Qiu Yicao's courage.
Looking to the future, Qiu Yicao said that the mission of the Qilin team is to bring professional polo back to China, to have its own professional open, and also hopes to make China's polo sport more commercial, so that it has enough strength to invest in and cultivate a new generation of players and show the world the level of Chinese polo.
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