2023-06-29 08:28:00
Four members of the men’s soccer team Cuba left the concentration after their first game in the CONCACAF Gold Cupwhich ended with a 0-1 defeat against Guatemala in Miami (USA).
The specialized Cuban journalist Francys Romero advanced the information, which was later confirmed by other reporters and even the state sports newspaper Jit.
The four footballers are Roberney Caballero, Carlos Denilson Morales, Neisser Sando, and Jassael Herrera.. No one showed up for the flight Miami a Houston (Southern United States), where the Cuban team has its second group stage match in a few days.
Some thirty elite athletes from Cuba They have abandoned national concentrations taking advantage of trips abroad in 2023. In recent years they have numbered several hundred, according to official media.
The serious economic difficulties that Cubans have been suffering for more than two years have fueled an unprecedented exodus on the island. Only last year, 313,000 nationals arrived irregularly at the southern border of USA.
To this is added, in the case of athletes, the problems they have to go abroad and sign for foreign clubs, where they can earn much more than in the national competitions of their country during their short working lives.
In the official media these abandonments are usually collected as “serious indiscipline” and even “betrayals”.
The Cuban team opened with defeat in the Gold Cup this Tuesday before Guatemala and this Saturday he faces the revelation of group D, Guadalupe. The meeting of the Caribbean Lions with Canada, the favorite theoretician of the group.
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