2024-06-13 12:22:31
Textual content: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
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Within the midst of the ultimate stretch of the completely different qualifying occasions for the Paris Olympic Video games and the by no means detached controversies associated to the ball, excellent news for Cuban sports activities arrived this weekend with out a lot fanfare.
After 16 years since its final foray, Cuba will return subsequent yr to a males’s handball World Cup, due to its crown within the lately concluded NACHC North American and Caribbean Males’s Championship that was held in Mexico 2024 till this Sunday.
The Antillean group went undefeated all through the match and, after defeating the host group 36-21 within the remaining, secured a spot on the planet competitors that Croatia, Denmark and Norway will collectively set up at the start of 2025.
A element of the title match, highlighted by the sports activities publication Jit, is that essentially the most invaluable participant was unexpectedly the Mexican goalkeeper Francisco Muñoz, regardless of the Cuban victory, and that the Caribbean goalkeeper, Magnol Suárez, gained the award for greatest goalkeeper. and MVP of the occasion.
Along with the Avilanian goalkeeper, a determine from the Spanish membership Villa de Aranda, three different island gamers have been included within the All-Star competitors due to their excellent efficiency of their positions. They have been Omar Toledano (proper winger), Hanser Rodríguez (left winger) and Ángel Rivero (proper winger).
The scepter makes the island’s group the one one with a couple of in its showcases, along with having been on the rostrum in all earlier editions of those comparatively new competitions. The Cuban groups gained silver in 2014, the title in 2018 and completed with bronze within the earlier model held in 2022.
On this approach, the success that the coverage of hiring Antillean gamers in overseas leagues and groups has had on this sport was additionally ratified, which has allowed us to have a strong nationwide squad, which makes us dream of people who in previous many years rubbed shoulders. with the world elite and even participated within the Olympic Video games.
The efficiency in Aztec territory will permit males’s handball to return to a common competitors for the primary time since 2009, after they licensed their seventh participation in these competitions. Exactly that final Cuban presence was in an occasion that Croatia additionally organized and through which the island group completed in twentieth place amongst 24 nations.