Cuban Miguel Ángel López was the best volleyball player in the world in 2023

The Cuban Miguel Ángel López was considered the best volleyball player in the world in 2023, according to the database of the specialized site Volleybox.

Miguel Ángel López dominates among men with the best score, 955.00 points; which gave the island supremacy in the masculine and feminine.

The 24-year-old from Cienfuegos Melissa Vargas She also stood at the top of the women's list with 1100.50 points, almost double the 634.80 points totaled by the Dominican Brayelin Martínez, who came in second place.

Cuban players dominate the world ranking of the Volleybox site as the best positioned of the year according to the prestigious page, since another Cuban, Wilfredo León, took fourth place in the ranking.

Miguel Ángel López plays with the Cuban team –unlike León and Vargas– and had an excellent season, with several individual leaders at the club and national team level.

In September the attacker, a native of Cienfuegos, considered that at cuban team "The change of technical group has been very good for him, since harmony had been lost a little" with the previous management.

At the beginning of last August, the National Volleyball Commission announced the decision to renew the management of the island squads of both sexes. In the case of the men's team, Nicolás Vives was replaced by Jesús Cruz, who until then worked with the minor categories of the men's sector.

For her part, Vargas, who became a Turkish citizen in April 2021, has had an exceptional year, which began in the Chinese Volleyball Super League, where she led the Tianjin club to win the tournament and was named best foreign player.