Cuba once again gave in to Canada (1-3) in men’s volleyball in its debut in the second week of the Nations League 2024but retains the dream of classifying the Olympic Games of Paris 2024.
In the city of Ottawa, headquarters of Group 4 actions, the local squad brought the Caribbean team to its knees with scores of 25-21, 25-27, 25-20 and 28-26, which meant a hard blow to aspirations of those led by coach Jesús Cruz.
Although it maintained ninth place in the world ranking, the failure left a loss of 8.98 units, and now the island exhibits 243.39 lines in its race to stay ahead of Serbia (238.51), its main opponent in the effort to access one of the places. for Paris 2024.
In the match in question, the Cubans stood out from the auxiliaries Marlon Yant (19 points) and Miguel Ángel López (18), the center Javier Concepción (11) and the opposite Michael Sánchez (11). Without a doubt, he weighed – and a lot – the absence of the star Robertlandy Simónaffected by back discomfort.
The winners, meanwhile, applauded the efforts of Eric Loeppky (22) and Stephen Maar (20), while Arthur Szwarc and Fynn McCarthy added 12 and 11 points, respectively.
This meant the fifth setback in a row against the northerners and another face will have to be shown against the Netherlands (Thursday), Italy (Friday) and France (Saturday) to continue on the path towards the five rings joust.
So far, Brazil, Germany, France – host and current monarch -, Japan, the United States, Poland and Canada have places for the competition scheduled for July 26 to August 11 in the French capital.
He men’s volleyball It is the “last bullet” of the sport of the largest of the Antilles to have a collective discipline in the great universal event. However, it is worth clarifying that the duo of Noslen Díaz and Jorge Luis Alayo are calmly awaiting the officialization of their tickets in the beach category.
