Aylen García Cordoví and Yanet Carbonel Salinas in full training with the experienced teacher Edilberto Vera CruzThe year 2025 begins and the action of women's baseball in this Holguin municipality of Calixto García does not stop, the efforts of the athletes Aylen García Cordoví and Yanet Carbonel Salinas demonstrate this.
We confirmed the above during a visit to the Orlando Proenza Vera stadium in Buenaventura, where we met with Mr. Edilberto Vera Cruz, who has been the director of the provincial team for a long time at the different events in the country.
"I am taking advantage of these days, while waiting for confirmation of the provincial tournament, to combine my responsibilities at the Calixto García with the task of keeping these two talented young women in shape, who we can already say are strong candidates to join the next Cuban team that will represent us in the Pan American Championship, to be held in August with a venue yet to be defined."
"Canito" as everyone calls him, is a small man in stature but immense in will, dedication and passion for his responsibilities.
"In the next few days we will expand the work group because we are convinced that no one will take the title from this municipality," said Vera Cruz.
The slender girls also joined in the dialogue, as Aylín, known as the all-rounder of Calixteño sports, confessed: "I have been practicing sports since I was a child, I have already participated in several and have won several medals in national competitions, however the great result is yet to come, and it would be the great posthumous gift to my maternal grandfather Félix Cordoví, my most faithful follower."
And according to what Edilberto expressed, who is also a member of the National Technical Commission of women's baseball, Aylen could even become the first pitcher of the future Cuban team, which also includes the other athlete Yanet Carbonel, who already has a zero-hit, zero-run game in the 2023 national championship.
"My aspirations are also great, not to stop until the Cuban team, for that I have been training for several years with great dedication and thanking the time that the teachers dedicate to us, mainly "Canito."
Nice words from Yanet who, like Aylen, lives in Buenaventura and is a professional in physical culture, both when they are not at events they work as teachers.
But according to information from the specialist Vera Cruz, another young woman from here, Daliana Verdecia, a receiver of strong physical constitution, who lives in the Los Moscones neighborhood, has just been called to the country's preselection, so we only have to write, it starts in 2025 and the women of this municipality empower themselves among gloves, bats and balls.
