Six Cuban football players defect in US
By AFP
July 21, 2019
HAVANA: Six Cuban football players from a national youth team defected in New York, Cuba´s state-run daily Granma said.
The team was on its way to the US Virgin Islands to play a qualifying match for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Japan.
During a stopover in New York, six members of the 23-and-under squad deserted, the newspaper said Friday.
That game was July 17 against the US Virgin Islands team. Cuba won 3-2. Granma called the defections "disgraceful."
In June, four Cuban players defected in the US during a tournament called the Copa de Oro. Granma said that in the past 17 years, a total of 39 football players from various national teams have defected abroad.
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