Defections continue to knock out the Cuban Domadores boxing team in international championships. This Wednesday, boxers Albert González and Carlos Castillo left the team in Germany, where Cuba had won its first three bronze medals at the Boxing World Cup, held this year in Cologne.
The athletes did not even show up for the scheduled fights, for which the national commissioner, Alberto Puig, accused them of having acted “failing their commitment.”
The escape of González and Castillo, two elite fighters and valuable members of the Domadores, marks a critical moment for a team that has not yet recovered from the recent abandonment of osvel knightwho escaped in Mexico after triumphing over his opponent, the Mexican Gerson Tiger escobar.
The boxers, both from Havana, have been training since October 24 in Berlin, along with seven other boxers led by the two-time Olympic champion Roniel Iglesias, the triple world champion Lázaro Álvarez and the world champion in the 75-kilogram category. Yoenlis Hernandez. Alejandro Claro, Sadiel Horta, Rafael Joubert and Freddy Pérez complete the Domadores squad.
Castillo arrived in Berlin after defeating the Kasakh fighter Amanat Sabyrgali in the Boxing World Cup, and after having obtained his super heavyweight champion’s credential by defeating the Cuban Yoel Duvergel in the Playa Girón National Tournament. After his victory, he declared to the media Hit that he had “rewarded” his mother’s sacrifice of many years and announced that this was “his moment”.
The boxers, both from Havana, have been training since October 24 in Berlin, along with seven other boxers.
For his part, González, who was due to debut against the German Ben Ehis, is experiencing a career on the rise that led him to be taken into account by coaches Robinson Poll, Víctor Sánchez and Julio Lázaro Mena, who included him in the delegation to face several European opponents at the end of the year.
The two boxers are expected to find ways to enter professional boxing from Europe or try to reach the United States, where their future could be promising, according to what was published. Full Swing.
The bleeding of Cuban athletes is a constant. This Wednesday the escape of the baseball players Yordy Magdariaga and Juan Raúl Cruz, players of the U-18 national team, was confirmed, according to the journalist Francys Romero.
“The Cuban baseball player continues to trust that there is more future outside his country than inside. Both Magdariaga and Cruz will now begin a stage of perfecting the tools and in addition to appearing before talent evaluators,” the reporter pointed out in the middle FR Baseball!
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