The team that will represent the country in the V World Baseball Classic, to be held in cities in Asia and America from March 8 to 21, conscientiously carries out its last round of training in Okinawa, Japan, amid conditions that are considered excellent and with an unbeatable spirit, according to statements by executives and member players.
The roster of the squad chosen for the transcendent fair, before also rigorously enlisted, championed and fired at the time, in a ceremony broadcast by Cuban Television. It is made up of 30 players who combine consecration, experience, and the emergence of young promises, in a proportion that tried to balance the demands of our current baseball, which, according to experts, must rise significantly improved in pitching and the number of baseball strikers located in certain categories of the team, among other factors.
According to the team director, Armando Johnson from Pinar del Río, the Cuban representation at the V Clásico aspires to improve the performances of the national teams in the international arena and showed his confidence that the team ready for the World Cup is reinforced, prepared by a good technical team, and is very focused and superior to the previous ones.
Our thing is to stay focused, step by step and try to get us to the second phase of the World Cup, the mentor specified. While the Cuba team aspires, the people await healthy revenge, that these laudable aspirations can be fulfilled to once again feel the joy of at least seeing an upward process, in a clear recovery phase, of our national sport.
For the countrymen of the baseball players, it is almost life or death to see us come back in the world events of a sport that is part of daily life, of the culture and history of our country. That has shaped our way of being, our vocabulary, our moods. It's a lot for us.
Chosen as captain of "Cuba", Alfredo Despaigne, with a successful career inside and outside the country, as a player for Japanese teams, considers that the members of the national team have magnificent cohesion and communication between novices and more experienced is good. The results must be good.
For the formation of the Cuban representation to the fifth classic, players born in this land have been called who today are part of foreign teams and have gladly agreed to defend the flag of their native country.
Cuba will play the first round of the tournament from the opening day in Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), as a rival to the team of the host country, the Netherlands, Italy and Panama.
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