An interview with the already legendary Ciego de Ávila`s basketball player Yoan Luis Haiti will soon appear in this space, but now I am only advancing a topic that is addressed in it by the Pope of the sport of baskets in Cuba and that reflects the essence of these lines.
“If you are looking for the reason for so many triumphs of our team, I will only tell you something fundamental: we all understood from the beginning that we formed precisely that, a team. We always thought as such when developing our game. However, I tell you more: even when we traveled to other cities, nobody went out alone. Where one went, we all went.
This Friday, Los Búfalos begin the final playoff of the Superior Basketball League (LSB). They are going for their tenth crown, something very easy to write, but very difficult to do. The one of now is not a quintet with figures "out of series", of those that dazzle the specialists. Moreover, in the statistics of the qualifying stage there are not many players from Ciego de Ávila with numbers for praise. Haiti is so right!
However, Jorge García's pupils, after coming back from a game that seemed "downhill" against Los Halcones de Santiago de Cuba, won last Sunday the right to attend the grand final by winning 95-87 in the covered room Giraldo Cordova Cardin. It was the third exit through the wide door in four clashes made in the semifinal round.
The opposing squad this time will be the young team of Los Guerreros, from Sancti Spíritus, which from the school categories has shown that it is a group not only of perspectives, but of realities, because now they should not be an easy prey for those led by Jorge Garcia.
Those of Yayabo have a leader like Mario Luis Troyano, who could help a lot to put the Ciego de Ávila`s defense in check, without forgetting others like the reinforcement César Villegas. As in the semis, the playoff will be five possible duels and the first to reach three victories will be proclaimed champion. Those who predict absolute success, without defeats, for the multi-champions are exaggerated, although they are the favorites of connoisseurs and fans.
Carlos Alberto Plascencia himself, provincial commissioner of the discipline in the sister province, confessed to his colleague Elsa Ramos: “...they have come this far despite being the youngest team in the League, with an average age of 22, the The name of Guerreros is not given for pleasure, they earned it since they were little, from the pioneer, school, youth categories, and now is the fruit”.Therefore, something can be anticipated: it will be a dispute between veterans and youth, between leadership and collectivism.
The first two matches will be in the Yayabo sport room in Sancti Spiritus and the remaining three, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, in the Giraldo Córdova Cardín sports center. Then come the party of the most creative and dynamic of sports!