MADRID, Spain.- Cuban beach volleyball player Sergio González arrived in the United States in recent days. According to the sports journalist Frances Romero This Saturday, González arrived in the northern country after making the usual migratory journey through Central America.
“One of my goals is to continue my sports career and regain my optimal form. It’s time to wait and see what happens, but it’s not something that keeps me up at night,” the volleyball player told Romero after arriving in the United States.
Sergio González, a native of Tacajó, in the province of Holguín, had retired from active sports in Cuba last year due to “health problems.”
He is the Cuban beach volleyball player with the best results in competitions, including the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, where he placed fifth along with his partner Nivaldo Díaz.
Sergio González had been crowned champion at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Veracruz, Mexico 2014 and Barranquilla, Colombia 2018; and he won bronze at the Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada 2015, among others.
This week It also transpired that the young Cuban catcher Javier Carabeo had left the Island. Upon leaving Cuba he had participated in five National Series.
“It is expected that he will settle in the Aztec country and carry out his free agency process there and be able to sign with a Major League organization,” he specified. Frances Romero when breaking the news.
Among the most recent escapes of Cuban athletes, active and retired, are that of pitcher Yadier Batista, to the Dominican Republic, that of former pitcher Angel Pena and that of the also stellar former pitcher Ciro Silvino Licea.
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