The personalities during the tour.
BOCA CHICA.- Complying with a large part of the work agreements signed by the leaders, Luis Abinader, from the Dominican Republic, and Ivan Duque, from Colombia, the minister of that nation, Guillermo Herrera toured several of the baseball academies located in this municipality, in order to begin to establish a similar model in his country and that allows increasing the number of baseball players in that nation.
In an extensive tour of several of the facilities, which he carried out together with Junior Noboa, National Baseball Commissioner, Herrera was surprised in all its parts by the comfort, organization, hygiene and development plans for players registered by Major League organizations. Leagues in the country and that has allowed the Dominican Republic to approach 900 members for life in the Majors.
Both the minister and Noboa were accompanied by Daniel Cabrales, Ambassador of Colombia in the Dominican Republic, as well as Ramón Jesurún, president of the Dominican Soccer Federation of that country, who this Friday walked through several of the most important areas that the complexes of big top baseball
They were joined by Francisco Camacho, Minister of Sports, who valued the presence of his counterpart in the country and with whom they will work together in the immediate future.
The tour began with the Academy of the Cincinnati Reds and the Toronto Blue Jays, both in Baseball City, and from this first stay the group was more than impressed by the general structure that exists there.
Even as quickly as they got to the Blue Jays complex, they met two of the Colombian prospects developing there, Francisco Lucumi and Carlos Mesa, both pitchers, as well as instructor Jair Morelos. They also spoke extensively with Pablo Neftali Cruz, long-time scout and Blue Jays executive, while in Cincinnati they spoke with Mario Soto, a 100-game winner with that team in a 12-year career.
“We are quickly fulfilling the contract signed by our president, Ivan Duque, with the president, Luis Abinader, and we have truly been amazed at how these structures are found and we will surely begin to emulate part of them,” he said.
He adds that the main objective is to carry out a good exchange, that the Dominicans can take us to Colombia baseball schools and we, the Colombians, contribute greatly to the development of soccer in the country.
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