The Cuban soccer player Lazarus Castro He left the Cuban national team this Tuesday. futsal attending the CONCACAF World Cup Championship in Managua, Nicaragua.
After the escape of the 27-year-old winger, a native of Pinar del Río, the national team was left with 13 athletes, according to the journalist Andy Lans in social networks.
The Cuban futsal team arrived in Nicaragua in search of getting one of the four tickets up for grabs to attend the FIFA Futsal World Cup, which will be held from September 14 to October 6, 2024 in Uzbekistan.
Castro's abandonment occurred just before the match against the Dominican Republic to advance to the semifinals of the event and qualify for the world championship.
Finally, The Cubans defeated the Dominicans this Wednesday, with a score of 2-1 goals, on the court at the Alexis Argüelles Sports Center, and achieved their sixth qualification for the World Cup. This Thursday they compete for a place in the final against Costa Rica.
Castro joined an extensive list of athletes who "abandon or break relations with the different federations to seek a better future in other countries," said the specialized media. Swing Completo.
In November 2023, the futsal players Ernesto Duanes and Bárbaro Shelier left the national team in Costa Rica, where they had traveled to maintain preparation targets for the current CONCACAF World Cup.
The wrestlers Osmany Diversent, gold medalist at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, Susana Martínez and Santiago Hernández escaped of the Cuban delegation before participating in the Pan American Olympic Qualifying tournament, in Acapulco, Mexico, last February.
Several baseball figures and prospects have also left Cuba so far in 2024, seeking to sign contracts with Major League organizations, such as the cases of the left-handed pitcher Naykel Yoel Cruz Zaldívar, who was part of the Cuba team attending the V World Baseball Classic in 2023, and the gardener Leonardo Urgellés, who was contracted in Japan with the Chunichi Dragons, in 2017.
During 2023, at least 106 athletes - 44 women and 62 men - left Cuba to fulfill their dreams in other lands, according to a calculation made by the newspaper CubaNet. The emigration statistics of Cuban athletes are led by baseball, with 41 escapes, followed by hockey (12) and handball (10).
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