• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Sports
• 03 / 04 / 2012

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The next May will be played in the United States Olympic Qualification of the North, Central American and Caribbean (NORCECA) volleyball. As part of its preparation for the competition the men's team will travel to Cuba Ecuador for training high that lasts about a month.

In the group of 14 players are also the central Isbel Mesa and Osmani Camejo, the auxiliary attackers, Rolando Cepeda and Henry Bell, the opposite Fernando Hernandez, pin Yoandri Diaz and libero Keibel Gutierrez, all runners world in Italy-2010, added the Agency.

Rounding out the roster newcomers Yonder Garcia (libero), David Faithful and Danger Quintana (central), Yordan Bicet (opposite) and Lazaro Fundora, members of the team bronze medalist at the last World Championship of Cadets. Bicet Faithful and went to the World Cup 2011, but hardly played.

The team coach, Orlando Samuels, said, quoted by the agency, Cubans seek in Ecuador to improve the "fitness and tactics," and do not plan to play any game.

Samuels said that to succeed in the Norceca needed "more competitive" and said "it would be beneficial," that after the return of Ecuador, on 28 March, the team could run into Mexico or Argentina.

The Norceca, scheduled from 7 to 12 May in the city of Long Beach (California) will give a single ticket to London.

U.S. Olympic champion in Beijing-2008, is said by experts as Cuba's main rival in the competition, which also will feature the squares of Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.

The Cuban team does not qualify for an appointment olímplica from Sydney-2000, where he finished seventh after losing in the quarterfinals against Russia.