Alberto Ramos

At the age of 12 Alberto Ramos was outstanding at all sports at his school in Juchitán but it was not until joining the Military Academy at the age of 19 that he specialised in polo. He won his first national title with Marte in 1935 and in 1936 was selected for the Berlin Olympics. He returned home with a bronze medal after Mexico trounced Hungary 16-2 in the third-placed match. After the Olympic Games he was seriously injured in a fall but recovered enough to be part of the Mexican team that toured California, Panama, Colombia, Peru and Argentina in 1937. He won his second national title, again with Marte, in 1938.

At Mexico City in 1941 Major Ramos played in the first international match between the United States and Mexico for the General Manuel Ávila Camacho Cup (named after the 45th President of Mexico). The US won 6-5, 6-4, 12-4. Ramos played for Mexico in Argentina in 1942 and won the Provincía de Buenos Aires and Ramón S. Castillo cups. He returned to Argentina in 1951 to compete in the first (and only) polo tournament at the Pan American Games where Mexico won the silver medal, losing to the host country in the crucial match in the round-robin tournament. He was awarded nine of the highest Mexican military sports decorations.