Cuban baseball players Jorge Soler, Yulieski Gurriel and Aroldis Chapman They began training with the Patria y Vida team, of the Cuban Professional Baseball Federation (FEPCUBE), which will attend the Intercontinental Baseball Series, in Colombia.
In statements to the organization's official channel, Soler expressed that since he was a child he wanted to join a large Cuban team and now he was given the opportunity to do so alongside the figures and talents in the United States.
"To all of our fans, please follow us, we are here working as you are seeing and we are going there to Colombia to give our all," he said.
For his part, Yulieski confessed that he feels different for being with a group of Cuban players again.
"It's not the same to be on a Major League team, where there is one or two. And I felt super blessed to be on the Astros, where there were like four, but our language is different. That's why I tell you It is a pride for us to be here," he stressed.
Aroldis said that on the first day they were "coupling", but that starting this Tuesday they would begin training.
"We are kings," he stressed.
Last week, the FEPCUBE offered a press conference on the preselection of the independent Cuba team, Patria y Vida, its upcoming competitions and the composition of its governing body.
In an exclusive interview for MegaTV, transmitted through the social networks of Martí News, the manager Brian Rock appeared alongside Euclides Rojas (banking coach) and Orlando "the Duke" Hernandez (general manager) to announce the participation of the Patria y Vida team in the next Intercontinental Baseball Series in Barranquilla, from January 25 to February 1.
He team Patria y Vida is made up of Cuban baseball players based in the United States And in the rest of the world.
"Since we all have to have a first and last name, the world is finding out now: the team is going to be called 'FEPCUBE, Patria y Vida,'" said Mandy Llanes Jr., president of the project, which seeks to bring together the best Cuban exile baseball players, including Major League stars.
Llanes explained that those two words - which will appear on the players' uniforms - symbolize the desire for freedom and democracy that Cubans share and that they represent the team's commitment to a free Cuba.
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