Thread: Seven Cuban soccer players defect after national team plays in Florida
View Single Post
  #2 (permalink)  
Old 03-15-2008, 02:30 PM
Tuatara's Avatar
Tuatara Tuatara is offline
Commentator
  
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Victoria BC
Posts: 1,138
micronesia au tasmania
Tuatara is a name known to allTuatara is a name known to allTuatara is a name known to allTuatara is a name known to allTuatara is a name known to allTuatara is a name known to all
Credits: 5,632
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain Backslap View Post
Seven members of Cuba's under-23 soccer team defected this week after a game against the United States in Florida, The Miami Herald reports.

"We were sitting down to eat and we slipped out a side entrance of the hotel and ran for it," Yenier Bermudez, the team captain, tells the St. Petersburg Times.

The players say they want asylum -- and a chance to play for a Major League Soccer team.

One pro franchise, Miami FC, tells Reuters that it will give the players a shot.

"The loss of seven players cast into doubt whether the Cuban squad will be able to field a team for Thursday's 5:30 p.m. match against Honduras and continue in the qualifying tournament for the 2008 Olympics," the Herald says. "Eleven players remain on the Cuban roster, and one -- forward Roberto Linares -- is ineligible to play against Honduras because he is suspended with a red card from the USA match."


http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline...cuban-soc.html


hahahaha WOW, I worry for their families back home though. Fidel and Hugo must be furious.
Fidel no longer runs the country. Where have you been? Also what does it have to do with Hugo? Don't you think if the US dropped the economic embargo and the Helms-Burton Act which limits travel restrictions that these players would have never left their families?
__________________
America's Enemies Are Not Mine

All wars represent a failure of diplomacy

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” - Stephen Roberts.
Reply With Quote