The next National Baseball Series in Cuba I could be in dangerAccording to what could be inferred from the words of the head of Rule and Arbitration of the National Commission of this sport, Luis Daniel del Risco, in an interview with the program “Deportitiva” of the official Radio Rebelde.
The also treasurer of the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) announced on Wednesday that In the next few hours, all training sessions for the players will be suspended. provincial teams Ball who are preparing for the tournament due to the critical situation that the Island is experiencing due to the expansion of the contagions of Covid-19.
For a week the players who will represent each province in the upcoming Cuban championship have been fulfilling their preparation in the stadiums of the provincial capitals under strict sanitary control, but apparently the epidemiological panorama is becoming more uncontrollable every day.
A detail that the manager did not address is the precarious economic situation in the country and the extension beyond what is usual last season.
According to sources who preferred anonymity, The last tournament, which the new coronavirus forced to stop on several occasions, involved spending a good part of the funds that the National Commission had for the next campaign.
Baseball is one of the most expensive sports, and the Cuban championship, which consists of 16 teams and in which more than 1,000 people participate, including athletes and coaches, is an expense that the Cuban Government cannot assume under the present situation.
Cuba is experiencing its worst days of the pandemic, which has been setting daily records of infections for three consecutive days, according to official figures, despite the fact that the so-called “sanitary intervention” began more than a month ago with the nationally produced vaccine candidates Sovereign 02 and Abdala, who have already been inoculated to hundreds of thousands of Cubans.
According to the opinion of the experts, in the coming days the positive cases will continue to increase, taking into account that the celebrations for Father’s Day are coming.
Although the National Series still does not have an announced start date, the directors had declared that the plans were to start it in the second half of September. But Del Risco told Radio Rebelde that a decision will be made in the next few days, which will be announced in an official note.
At the end of the last baseball contest, the top leaders of this sport were affected by the new coronavirus and the vast majority of their managers tested positive for Covid-19. This even caused the death of the two main leaders of the ball on the island: Higinio Vélez, president of the Federation, and Ernesto Reinoso, national commissioner.
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