8. Incorrect use of capital letters in "Cuban basketball team", it should have been "Cuban basketball team" maintaining consistency with what was mentioned at the beginning of the text.
- "Cuban basketball team"
9. The term "AmeriCup" refers to a brand or name of a competition and must be respected as it is officially written.
- "qualification towards the men's AmeriCup"
Raudelis Guerra, wholeft in June 2021 the official Cuban basketball team during a stopover inMadrid, assures that he has not regretted it because since then he has seen his sporting progress and the increase in his family's well-being.
“I was at the Havana airport, and he told me: 'I can't take it anymore. Yes or yes I am going to do it.' Escape to freedom. Escaping to freedom for a dream,” Guerra explained about the firmness of his decision at that time, in recent statements to the Spanish television program Jugones (The sixth).
However, he admits that it was complicated because there are players who, out of suspicion, had their phones tapped and then taken off the plane and told: “You are a possible deserter.”
That led him to speak in code with a relative of his living in Spain who was the one who finally helped him escape.
"We arrived at the airport (in Madrid) and they took our passport. We spent seven hours at the airport waiting. I was praying, crying to the Lord so that they would let us leave," said the athlete, who was finally transferred to a hotel with the rest of the people. the selection.
“My heart started racing there. I said, 'I can't, I can't, I can't.' I had to leave with the clothes I had from the selection. Without anything, because otherwise they would discover me. I pretended he was fucking meselfie. I had the hotel behind me to see if anyone was coming, a player or someone. “My aunt was waiting for me there in the car and all she did was see her and tell me to run,” he said.
“Everything has been very hard, but I have no regrets. Since then I have seen the progress of my mother, of my family.... I think it is a dream and I would not like to wake up”, added the 29-year-old, 1.92 m young man. of height.
"I have found the life I came out looking for. Here you can work and buy what you want. There is freedom of expression," he said, aware that he will have to pay the punishment imposed on those who escape from sports delegations in Cuba.
Guerra's escape left the Cuban team with nine men before the game against El Salvador, as part of the qualifying playoffs for the 2022 men's AmeriCup.
In the 2021-22 season, Raudelis Guerra had his first experience in Spain with Autocares Rodríguez Daimiel, from the EBA League. Now he plays in the city of Córdoba, in Andalusia, as part of the UCB Camper Eurogaza team, where he is happy and feels highly valued.
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