Four softball players from Santiago to the World Cup in New Zealand

Cuba’s squad for the Men’s World Cup in Auckland, New Zealand from November 26 to December 4 includes four players, led by star pitcher Guspel Bluetin from Santiago de Cuba, who was unable to participate. In the most recent edition of the national championship due to the fulfillment of his contract in Guatemala, but was invited to this global event.

Bluetin performed brilliantly at the XI Pan American Softball Championship (m) in Parana, Argentina, where our team won a passport to New Zealand and guaranteed credentials for the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador. and the Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile in 2023, this last event including men’s softball.

Cuba is currently ranked twelfth in the world, and this is its third participation in an event in the world, since 1988, in Canada, where it finished fourth, and more recently in Prague 2019, in the Czech Republic. Ranked tenth.

For the upcoming nomination, Cuba’s challenge will be huge, as the selected group is included in Group B of the competition with representatives from Argentina, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, the United States and the Philippines. Leave no room for doubt.

In the list I present to you, the masked absentee is Santiago Andres Reina, who was the batting leader in the recent domestic championships and has also accumulated international experience as he was part of the Cuban team. The national team that participated in the Central American and Caribbean Games Barranquilla 2018 and the Czech Republic-based 2019 World Cup was declared victorious.

Here is the list of team members who will be participating in Auckland, New Zealand:

Receivers: Rainier Vera (CAV) and Urisander Ramos (CAV).

Infielders: Yersander Rodríguez (SCU), Osvaldo Pérez (VCL), Yuri Rodríguez (CAV), Luis Domínguez (HOL) and Wilfredo Sánchez (GRA).

Outfielders: Miguel Savigne (SCU), Anibal Viland (HOL), Reynaldo Lamothe (SCU), Roger Rosset (VCL), Hector Castillo (LTU) and Yasmani Alvarez (LHA).

Pitchers: Alain Roman (CAV), Gusbel Plutín (SCU) and Eduardo González (CAV).

Training Staff:

TD: Leonardo Cardenas

Assistants: Jesus Echardt and Hazel Pena

Pitching Coach: Esteban Groro

JOSE RAL CASTILLO ARGUELLES