The Cuba team was crowned champion of the first Baseball 5 World Cup held in Mexico City, by defeating its similar team from Japan in two sets in the grand final of the event, with scores of 9-1 and 6-2. .
Cuban champion!! We must shout it out loud on behalf of all those anonymous countrymen who, playing barefoot in the parks or in the middle of the street, invented this sport many years ago under the name of Cuatro Esquinas, and which has now multiplied throughout the world with a commercial name .
Cuban champion!! Allow me to say it again after so many years without seeing a team from this land climb to the top of the podium in an event related to baseball, the matrix from which this discipline was born that today has filled us with pride.
There is no better setting than the Zócalo, the largest square among Spanish-speaking countries, for our people to raise that World Cup marinated in its Caribbean sauce, under the notes of our glorious National Anthem resounding on the walls of the historic center of that populous city.
The Cubans showed from the very beginning of the competition that they were the strongest squad in the tournament in all aspects of the game and tonight there were no surprises on the field.
Thanks to the three-time national champion mentor Pablo Terry, the coach Liorvis Savon, the national commissioner of this sport Eros Bernal who has worked so hard to bring this sport to life, and the eight boys who broke the Teammate to be able to nail the star flag lonely in the middle of that famous esplanade.
The standing ovation for the terror trio made up of Orlando Amador, Briandy Molina, and Roivelis Núñez, and for the rest of the troop made up of Chakira Aspiazú, Lietis Nieve Arcia, Cristian Basabe, Claudia Lores, and Eliani Castellanos, although the latter left the delegation before the final match.
Congratulations champions!!!
The bronze medal was held by the Chinese Taipei squad, by defeating Venezuela twice with scores of 9-2 and 2-0.
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