Cuba changed their sport policy two days ago. Players will be able to play abroad, the goverment made this official yesterday, unlike like the old times, the players only have to pay the taxes to Cuba a small quantity. I believe the only condition is that they have the duty to represent our NT. No words yet about pro players like Simon or Juantorena, we will find it out in the next months (in the worst case to end of the year).
@vatreni: plus juantorena, plus experience that they have now, leal, simon and juantorena are playing, hierrezuelo and leon are in cuba and they dont play since 2011 and 2012 respectively, that team was very young, simon and hierrezuelo were 23 years each and they manage to reach the final, playing againts powerfouls squads like brazil, serbia and bulgaria, a true odisey, was a pitty when they lose the finals but everybody know that was enought to say that cuba play that competition excellent but not perfect. anyway im still curious about the future, maybe one day we can have all those man in one team xD my team suckers ahhaha, BTW the setter never was a problem, hierrezuelo set amazing balls, but he suffer the "young boy" syndrome, to much unstable and he dont have patience with his teammates, he gets very emotional, like everybody knows
yes but i dont know if they translated the entire document already, in the end the document not only talk about volleyball but also others sports and the social services of the govermente with those that have won medals in other sports like Boxing or Baseball, they paid a smal quantity but its enough to live quiet good in cuba i guarantee that. but like i say not words says about the pro players like simon or Juantorena,we assume that if they wanna leave cepeda and the players that still remain in cuba play abroad, they can also call the others that dont deffect from our nacional team
well this new policy only have 5 days, i personally expect that cepeda would be the first player who should benefit from the law, he have some skills ? and he is young 24 years old, besides i don't know if mesa would follow to, along with keibel gutierrez and bartmannn you are free to leave the post whatever you want, this is not about me or you, its something that vb had searching for a long time, THE CUBAN FREEDOM IS ALREADY HERE.
@HCLT: indeed cara, but im pretty sure that even with all those stars in my team, things wouldnt be easy for us, they might played together few years ago, but now volleyball is changing and superstars come and goes everytime, look mikhaylov that guy now is a ghost since 2011 he just play shit we cannot say that with all those stars we can win easily i only want a competitive team, with not regrets. thats all, i dont wanna be 1st ranking just win a medal in the olympics and gold in WL if is possible, WCH is the most hard to win. anyway if they beat the poles eu ja tou contento ahhahaha .
@HCLT: eu percebi tudo, mas nao sei escrever ainda como deve de ser, em cuba que eu saiba não há assim grandes ego, todo o pessoal se conhece, todos jogaram juntos desde que eram uns moleques e ainda mais, todos vinham de famílias carenciadas, há um ou outro que precisa maturidade, porque os tempos mudaram e ficam as vezes muito materialistas, como é o caso das novas figuras, que acham que só por nascer em cuba, vão ter um futuro 5 estrelas no voleibol enfim, Simon e Juantorena vão assumir o papel de lideres por ser os caras mais velhos, há um que sempre fica zangado mas é cenas dos cubano como o canhoto do hierrezuelo que anda a arranjar sapatos para poder comer, veja só enfim eu só quero andar nas competições sem medo ninguem e seja o rival que for exista uma possibilidade de ganhar, mas pronto a defessa mesmo com essas figuras e o jogo tatico do time nao esta garantido enfim vamos ver
@Wilfredo_is_Marshall: there is no need to call Marshall, is to old and i don't think he would back, besides he can return to Cuba for holidays, but he deffect from the team in 2001 and maybe the law change but is still considered a treason
http://cafefuerte.com/deportes/7511-cuba-da-luz-verde-al-profesionalismo-en-el-deporte/
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2013/09/27/nacional/artic01.html
Go go google translate
For now its Earvin N'Gapeth