By Franco Miguel Alvariño
Next Friday, June 25, the Cuba team will travel to the city of Willemstad, Curaçao. The national team will take part, starting on Saturday, June 26, in the third edition of the Caribbean Cup, which this year will be dedicated to the memory of Higinio Vélez Carrión.
The Cuban troops will have the technical congress the day after their arrival at the tournament headquarters. The representatives of the Virgin Islands, Peru and the host, Curaçao, must participate in said meeting.
The Cubans, led by Pablo Civil, will make their debut on June 26 against the home squad. A day later they will face the Virgin Islands team, and to close the first phase of the contest they will collide with their counterpart from Peru.
After finishing the first round of the competition, the team that achieves the first place will have to face the worst placed. Meanwhile, second and third must see each other in a life or death duel. The winners will meet in the final
As announced by his colleague, Carlos Hernández Luján on his Twitter account, the strategist from Las Tunas announced Yander Guevara as the starter for the first match against the local team.
The batting order that the Greater Antilles will use in the event is still unknown, but after the preparation games with the Industriales team in the Latin American, names such as Guillermo García, Santiago Torres and Dennys Laza seem essential in the starting team.
After the debacle in the Florida Pre-Olympic, the Cuban alternative team will appear in a tournament of very low level, in which ours will be the main attraction.
Although, the contest cannot be taken as a reference to assess a performance, or qualify a performance, the players must leave their best version, and overwhelm the opponents whenever possible. In short, the team of the four letters will have to go out to the diamond to demonstrate the superiority indicated by the paper, otherwise, no objective will be fulfilled.
