The Cuban men’s softball team heads to New Zealand

Ciego de Ávila, October 29 (ACN) The Cuban men’s softball team will participate XVII World Cup, 2022 in Auckland, New ZealandNext November, the product will continue its pursuit of the top six, its technical director Leonardo Cardenas Pereira announced in the city.

The venue for these training sessions starting on the 10th of this month is the Provincial Academy in Ciego de Ávila, which meets all the facilities and field conditions.

Cardenas Pereira told a Cuban news agency that although they had little information about the competitors, the only international clash in the last five months was the Pan American in Argentina, where they won bronze, and they knew the fight would happen. Very strong.

We will head to New Zealand looking to improve on 2019’s tenth place finish achieved in Prague, the Czech Republic, and take advantage of the limits we want to select that country as well as Argentina and Denmark. To maintain with us, he indicated Cuban technical director.

Cardenas Pereira said, “During training days we use offensive strategies that have given us good results and we emphasize our best weapons, pitching and defense.”

Regarding the preparation, Hazel Manuel Peña Nuevo, who is responsible for this department in the team, explained that the third week of work was completed with all the established parameters including physical and game performance (offense, defense and pitch) being met. .

Peña Nuevo indicated that we will enter a phase of three more micro-cycles to strengthen the technical-tactical area and games, and end with another two that will bring everything together.

Exiquio Jesús Echarte Leiva (Chuchi), the pride of the game and the team’s coach, felt that the Cuban team, being the same team that played in the Pan American Games, had the conditions to perform well at the event. Argentina.

Oswaldo Perez, the first baseman, and Urizandre Ramos, the catcher, said there was a strong chemistry between all the members, who needed to go out on the field to give it their all and fight game by game.

The 50-match tournament is scheduled from November 26 to December 4 and will be played at Rosedale Park in Auckland, New Zealand.

The 12 participating teams will begin the world tournament with a group stage: Group A will consist of Argentina, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, the United States, Cuba and the Philippines; B occurs in Japan, Canada, Australia, Venezuela, Denmark and South Africa.

The 30-match inaugural round will conclude on November 30, with the top three finishers from each group advancing to the Super Round, while the other six teams will participate in the consolation round.

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The top two teams in the Super Round, which runs from December 1-3, will compete for the men’s softball world title, while the third and fourth teams will play for the bronze medal.

The World Championship final is scheduled for December 4, preceded by the bronze medal game.