Cuban baseball manager Confident of Success in Caribbean Series

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 16 (acn) Victor Mesa, head coach of the national baseball squad, relied on the success of the team that will represent Cuba at the upcoming Caribbean Series, agreed from February 2 to 8 in the Puerto Rican city of San Juan.

Exclusively to AIN and during the recent match against Industriales, the also coach of Matanzas gave importance to the choice of athletes that will reinforce the team of Pinar del Río, Cuba's current monarch and representative of the island in the Caribbean competition.
Our squad to the Caribbean Series must be made up by the basis of Pinar del Rio, led by an experienced and capable coaching staff led by Alfonso Urquiola, but it is essential to reinforce well each of the positions with the right players to opt for victory in San Juan, Mesa noted.
He added that this line of action responds to the fateful experience of 2014 in the Venezuelan island of Margarita, where Villa Clara, Cuba's representative, played a pale paper by finishing last on the return of Cuba to the traditional event after more than half a century of absence.
If we were attended with a heavily reinforced team, Cuba could have aspired to victory in Venezuela, said Victor Mesa, who confirmed that the Cuban squad will fight for the title in San Juan, commitment expressed repeatedly by the highest baseball authorities of the country.
Mesa holds the position of head coach of the national team until 2017 coinciding with the celebration of the World Baseball Classic, and recently took his disciples to the gold medal at the Central American and Caribbean Games last November in the Mexican city of Veracruz.
Many of the players present at that contest could be included in the list of Pinar del Río, in search of having greater chance of success in the second consecutive participation of Cuba in the traditional event.
The Cuban representative will compete for the crown of the Caribbean Baseball Series against the champions of the leagues of Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Mexico and Puerto Rico.