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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Two players were missing from the Cuban women's soccer team for its final game at an Olympic qualifying tournament.
Forward Yezenia Gallardo, 20, and midfielder Yisel Rodriguez, 22, were listed as absent from the team for Cuba's game Monday night against Haiti at BC Place.
Jesus Pereira, the head of the Cuban soccer delegation at the tournament, declined to stop to answer questions from reporters after the game. Pereira, the coaches and players headed directly to the team bus, again declining questions through a CONCACAF spokesman.
Cuban soccer players have a history of defecting during tournaments on the North American mainland. Seven members of the men's Under-23 team defected during a CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament in Tampa, Fla., in 2008, and men's national team player Yosniel Mesa defected last year after a game in Charlotte, N.C., during the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Forward Yezenia Gallardo, 20, and midfielder Yisel Rodriguez, 22, were listed as absent from the team for Cuba's game Monday night against Haiti at BC Place.
Jesus Pereira, the head of the Cuban soccer delegation at the tournament, declined to stop to answer questions from reporters after the game. Pereira, the coaches and players headed directly to the team bus, again declining questions through a CONCACAF spokesman.
Cuban soccer players have a history of defecting during tournaments on the North American mainland. Seven members of the men's Under-23 team defected during a CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament in Tampa, Fla., in 2008, and men's national team player Yosniel Mesa defected last year after a game in Charlotte, N.C., during the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/news/20120123/cuba-womens-soccer/#ixzz1kOSNC59R
I have never understood why the Cuban government avoided these types of embarrassments by simply letting their citizens work where ever they wished.
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If they let their citizens work where ever they wished they would have no more workers.
former9thward
Jan 2012
#5
I tried to leave the US, but was threatened with arrest when I started packing. nt
Snake Alchemist
Jan 2012
#15
I was in a group based in Havana, which cut down on the number of up close
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#40
Funny the entire team didn't defect. thousands of Cubans come here every year under
nanabugg
Jan 2012
#88
Feel free to cite a dictatorship that enjoys the same or greater levels of freedom and liberty...
PavePusher
Jan 2012
#67
seems if they were allowed to play, they would send back some of their earnings
Bacchus4.0
Jan 2012
#14
It appears you don't know people come and go from Cuba continually. You should research sometime.
Judi Lynn
Jan 2012
#30
No, but the U.S. and Cuba have worked out an agreement for orderly immigration,
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#35
Why would a socialist paradise need to restrict the number of people who can leave?
Dreamer Tatum
Jan 2012
#42
It's the U.S. limiting the number who can come IN, not Cuba restricting the number who can leave
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#44
Americans used to be able to travel to Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean w/o a passport
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#77
Since 1999, all the European Union countries except Britain and Ireland
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#130
I wonder, iverglass, how many of the people who slam Cuba, have actually been there
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#79
I grew up in contact with Latvian emigres--they were AFRAID to go back to Latvia
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#34
Cuba is not a good place to be rich, but a friend of mine who has visited and even
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#65
Why can't they be a true social democracy like Sweden? Sweden is not massacring entire villages.
hack89
Jan 2012
#66
Sweden and the other social democracies STARTED with a higher standard of living
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#68
well, when and how will we know when the Cubans want change? Castro already annointed
Bacchus4.0
Jan 2012
#90
Wouldn't regular free multi-party elections be the best way to gauge when they want a change?
hack89
Jan 2012
#118
I didn't say that it precluded social democracy, only that Scandinavia had advantages in this
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#91
I condemn all police states, "allies" or not. They are anathema to fundamental human rights.
hack89
Jan 2012
#137
How often do visitors to the U.S. visit political prisoners in the U.S. ?
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#146
I would think a church group would be actively supporting Christian values where ever they went
hack89
Jan 2012
#147
So political repression is OK as long as it is "mild"? What do you think OWS thinks about that idea?
hack89
Jan 2012
#144
How do they articulate their choice to be free? Through free elections? Oh wait ...
hack89
Jan 2012
#148
back to the OP, those two women apparently aren't impressed by Cuba's "progress"
Bacchus4.0
Jan 2012
#111
people go to live in developing countries all the time. many expats in latin america
Bacchus4.0
Jan 2012
#136
Yes, but when I was considering expatriating during the Bush administration
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2012
#140
Decree 217 is not just used to limit it to Havana. It's arbitrarily implemented.
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#114
good post. one note, the ID card (cedula) is widespread throughout latin america
Bacchus4.0
Jan 2012
#115