Former Granma pitcher and pitching coach Ciro Silvino Licea left Cuba. Last Thursday, the baseball player took a flight at the José Martí International Airport in Havana bound for Nicaragua, from where as reported by the journalist Francys Romero, undertook the journey to the United States.
The departure of this athlete from the Bayamo municipality was surprising, because he was considered part of the coaching staff of the Agricultores team, which will participate in the Elite League of Cuban baseball in October. Licea’s absence from Friday’s training made it clear that something was wrong with the team led by Carlos Marti.
The communicator indicated that the baseball player, who participated in several Cuban teams for more than 10 years, hopes to soon reunite with his wife, “who had also left the Island two months ago.” A relative of the athlete confirmed the journey, in addition to specifying that “his family, his wife and his brother-in-law are in Houston, Texas.”
Licea was a benchmark among pitchers in 23 National Series with 208 games won with 3067.1 innings of work, where he added 1,887 strikeouts while his earned run average is 3.69, in addition to having “a slider difficult to hit and a fastball of more than 90 miles with a repertoire that has improved over the years”, featured on your account From Facebook Sports by Modesto Aguero.
The baseball player, who participated in several Cuban teams for more than 10 years, hopes to soon reunite with his wife, “who had also left the Island two months ago.”
Licea’s departure is added to that of Adriel Labrada. The former captain of the Avispas team turned himself in to the US authorities in Texas after crossing the Rio Grande through the state of Coahuila, public Full Swing.
Before Labrada, on Saturday, September 10, the natural right-hander from Matanzas, Alain López, arrived in the US. This young man was able to achieve his dream thanks to the fact that he resorted to “the path of family claim” and will settle in Florida, said Francys Romero.
López was “leader in effectiveness of the 2019-2020 National Youth Championship with Matanzas. He participated in nine victories for his Matanzas team in the last National Youth”, public the portal FR Baseball!
One day before López set foot on US territory, it was confirmed that Cuban Juan Carlos Hernández had arrived in Miami. The former Mayabeque player left the island and took the Nicaraguan route from where he began his journey until he reached the Mexican city of Piedras Negras, in Coahuila, where, after 25 days, he was able to cross the Rio Grande.
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