Havana/Due to “a logistical setback”, as the Cuban Volleyball Federation (FCV) has called it, the national volleyball team had to be divided into two groups to travel to Canada this Thursday, to participate in the Norceca Men’s Continental Championship, qualifying for the World Cup of the specialty (2027) and the Los Angeles Olympic Games (2028).
This time, specified the space on Facebook CubanSp1ke“the problem was neither in the United States nor in Canada… It was in those who command and manage” the sport on the Island. The same medium denounced last Tuesday the lack of tickets for the team members, due to “mismanagement” of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder) and the FCV.
This team “will be conditioned to a cold place” and will face not only “the change in temperature, but the possibility of a muscle injury, which would be fatal,” he added.
The independent journalist Raul Rodriguez He said that the federation had to request a change in the time of the match against the Dominican Republic, initially scheduled at 7:00 p.m. The game will be at 4:00 p.m.
The federation had to request a change in the schedule of the match against the Dominican Republic, initially scheduled at 7:00 p.m. The game will be at 4:00 p.m.
According to the FCV, in a first group, which left Havana bound for Panama and from there to Canada, the captain of the team Miguel Ángel López, Alejandro González, traveled RagnarDavid Fiel and Yonder García, as well as coach Jesús Cruz.
On another flight, this one bound for Mexico, are Christian Thondike Mejías, Ronaldo Flaquet;
Daniel Martínez, Robertlandy Simón, Alexis Wilson, Thiago Suárez, Marlon Yant, Osniel Mergarejo, Yusniel Martí and Lázaro Arrechea.
According to the plan, all athletes must be in Canada at 11:30 a.m. this Friday and from there they will have to travel to the city of Moncton, where the event will take place. “The competition, in which there will be eight teams, distributes three places for the 2027 World Cup and a single ticket for the Los Angeles Olympic Games,” the communicator recalled.
Cuba is part of group A along with the Dominican Republic, Guatemala and the United States. In B are Puerto Rico, Mexico, Curacao and Canada. In the event, the winners of each batch will advance directly to the semifinals. Those who finish as second and third places will face each other in the quarterfinals. Cuba’s last participation in an Olympic Games was in Rio de Janeiro (2016).
Last Sunday the coach showed his confidence in knowing the rivals, “among them Canada, which has become difficult for us in the last few games, but we must go out and play our volleyball, and when there is dedication and willingness, performance comes out.”
