The first vice president of Inder, Raúl Fornes, will review relations between Cuba and Japan in terms of baseball, during a second visit to the Asian country in the coming days, the Jit newspaper reported today.
The director of the Cuban Institute of Sports (Inder) intends to resume the conversations he held in September 2021, at the end of the Tokyo Paralympic Games, with representatives of several Japanese clubs in search of increasing the hiring of Antillean baseball players in that competitive circuit.
On that occasion, Fornés also spoke with companies specializing in articles and technologies for sports, including the well-known Ataka.
The current agenda of the leader includes within his purposes to follow up on the players linked to the Cuban sports organization in the Japanese League.
Fornés will pay special attention to the group of athletes hired by the Cuban Federation of the discipline (FCB) in the Dragones de Chunichi, who make up the largest number of representatives of the Island there.
Catcher Ariel Martínez and pitchers Yariel Rodríguez and Raidel Martínez have been active in the Nagoya squad for several years, meanwhile, last November they also signed pitcher Frank Abel Álvarez and first baseman Guillermo García, who will start the imminent season within the ranks of the second team.
FCB’s representation in Japanese baseball also extends to the SoftBank Falcons, where the three most prestigious exponents and multiple League champions play: sluggers Alfredo Despaigne and Yurisbel Gracial, as well as closer Liván Moinelo.
