Havana/Eriel Sánchez León has found in Nicaragua the opportunity to remain linked to sport. The manager from Sancti Spiritus will direct the Tigres de Chinandega franchise starting in December. On the Island he was disqualified from directing for five years, after being coach of Sancti Spíritus, in September 2025, “I will hit with a stick” to technical commissioner Eusebio Miguel Rojas Rodríguez, “causing a head injury that required medical attention,” according to the official ruling.
Sánchez told the official media Escambray that the sanction imposed by the National Baseball Commission is limited to being exercised in Cuba, not anywhere else in the world.
The manager rejected that the contract in Nicaragua “is a prize.” As he commented to the same medium, it is “an opportunity that I am given to recognize that we have to take more precautions, more measures so that these things do not happen (such as the attack on Rojas). It is a lesson and an experience.”
The manager rejected that the contract in Nicaragua “is a prize.” According to what he told the same media, it is “an opportunity.”
Likewise, he acknowledged that the Nicaraguan club investigated the mishap. This, precisely, made him reflect: “That they took me into account, after the investigation, means that one is not so incriminated. They, apparently, valued that they were things that happen in a moment of heat between two colleagues who exceeded the limits of friendship.”
After the sanction was imposed, a year passed and he focused on launching the El Olympic venture. With the consent of the ruling party and the Popular Savings Bank and in the midst of a crisis that severely limits payment services to retirees, it was the way for 20 sporting glories to receive retirement payment.
The official media Cubadebate He highlighted Sanchez’s business as the means through which participants in the Olympic Games, world, Pan American and Central American championships can “receive their payments directly at the business and thus avoid long lines, interruptions of banking services due to blackouts or the limited availability of cash.” With his contract in Nicaragua, Sánchez delegated responsibility to his wife.
Controversy has accompanied Eriel Sánchez. Under his orders it was created in October 2021 the escape of 12 players at the U-23 World Cup that took place in Sonora, Mexico. The list of “patriots”, as the manager called his summoned players, was made up of 24 players, of which the following escaped: Geisel Cepeda, Loidel Chapellí Jr., Yandi Yanes, Bryan Chi, Miguel Antonio González, Yeinel Zayas, Luis Dennys Morales, Uber Mejías, Dariel Fernández, Loidel Rodríguez, Reinaldo Lazaga and Diasmany Palacios.
The coach seemed to be on the tightrope after the escapes. However, the Cuban Baseball Federation kept him in the position for the First Junior Pan American Games, which took place in Colombia.
