Cuban national soccer team

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Cuba
República de Cuba
FA Cuba.svg
Nickname (s) Leones del Caribe
Association Asociación de Fútbol de Cuba
confederacy CONCACAF
Technical sponsor Joma
Head coach CubaCuba Pablo Elier Sánchez (since 2019)
Record scorer Lester More (29)
Record player Yénier Marquez (126)
Home stadium Estadio Pedro Marrero
FIFA code CUB
FIFA rank 179. (936 points)
(as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey
Second jersey
statistics
First international match Cuba 3-1 Jamaica ( Cuba ; March 16, 1930)
CubaCuba JamaicaJamaica
Biggest win Cuba 11-0 Turks and Caicos Islands ( Havana ; Cuba ; September 8, 2018)
CubaCuba Turks Islands and Caicos IslandsTurks and Caicos Islands
Biggest defeats Sweden 8-0 Cuba ( Antibes ; France ; June 12, 1938) Aruba 8-0 Cuba ( Tegucigalpa , Honduras ; August 19, 1955)
SwedenSweden CubaCuba

NetherlandsNetherlands CubaCuba
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals 1 ( first : 1938 )
Best results Quarterfinals 1938
North and Central American Championship
Participation in the finals 11 ( first : 1971 )
Best results Fourth in 1971
(As of September 8, 2018)

The Cuban national soccer team is the team selected by the Asociación de Fútbol de Cuba to select the best soccer players from the Caribbean island state of Cuba . Cuba was the first team in the Caribbean to qualify for a World Cup.

history

At the finals of the 1938 World Cup in France , the Cuban team beat Romania 2-1 in a replay after the first game between the two teams ended 3-3, and thus reached the quarter-finals. Here they were clearly defeated by Sweden with 0: 8. After participating in 1938, Cuba could no longer qualify for a world championship.

In addition to reaching the quarter-finals at the 1938 Soccer World Cup , Cuba celebrated its greatest successes with second places at the Caribbean Championships in 1996, 1999 and 2005, as well as reaching the quarter - finals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 2003 .

In the 1999/00 season, the Bonn SC signed 15 Cuban national players. The players had already arrived, but the coup failed due to difficulties with work permits and eligibility to play.

In January 2008 the Cuban federation hired the German Reinhold Fanz as coach for the task of qualifying the team for the World Cup. In July and August 2008 the Cuban national team was in Germany for a training camp. Here they played against the team of the regional league club SV Waldhof Mannheim , to which Cuba lost 3-1 (0-0). They were also defeated by the second division club FC St. Pauli in the Millerntor Stadium with 0: 7 (0: 2). On May 21, 2008 they lost 2-1 to third division club SV Wacker Burghausen in Tittmoning . On October 14, 2008, the Cuban Football Association announced that Fanz would only act in an advisory capacity. His successor as head coach was Raúl González Triana .

After Cuban players once again used the national team's qualifying matches in North America to flee in autumn 2012, FIFA President Sepp Blatter announced that he wanted to talk to Cuban officials about this phenomenon, given the competitiveness of the selection, which often had a decimated squad in question. He wanted to personally request the Cuban association to bring the problem to the responsible government agencies in the country. In April 2013, Blatter's visit to Cuba took place, and the topic was discussed in talks with senior representatives of the football association and the superordinate state sports institute INDER. At the qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games in March 2012 in the USA, a Cuban player separated from the team, and in October 2012 in Canada, four others did so. Competitive athletes suspected of wanting to flee have repeatedly in the past not been allowed to travel abroad by the Cuban authorities.

After a friendly in Jamaica Montego Bay occurred in March 2015 arrest of three members of the national team under suspicion of rape of a US tourist in their hotel. After a week of pre-trial detention, they were released and were able to return to Cuba. Four national players were then banned from all sporting activities for a period of two years by the Cuban sports authorities because of unspecified “serious and unforgivable indiscipline”. In May 2015, national coach Walter Benítez lost his post to Raúl González Triana, his immediate predecessor until November 2012.

Also in May 2015, the continental association CONCACAF imposed a five-game ban and a fine on González Triana. He was found guilty of " racist behavior" against an arbitrator. The punished incident occurred during a game at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Veracruz, Mexico in November 2014 when Triana was in charge of the Cuban U-21 selection.

Tournaments

Olympic games

1900 to 1964 not participated
1968 in Mexico City not qualified
1972 in Munich not participated
1976 in Montreal Preliminary round
1980 in Moscow Quarterfinals (qualifies as a substitute for the USA)
1984 in Los Angeles not qualified

After 1984 the senior national team stopped taking part in the Olympic Games and the qualifying games. An Olympic team has not yet qualified.

World Championship

CONCACAF championship

CONCACAF Nations Cup

From 1973 the tournament also served as a World Cup qualifier.

  • 1963 and 1965 - did not take part
  • 1967 - did not qualify
  • 1969 - did not take part
  • 1971 - 4th place
  • 1973 - did not participate
  • 1977 - did not qualify
  • 1981 - 5th place
  • 1985 - did not participate
  • 1989 - did not qualify

CONCACAF Gold Cup

  • 1991 - withdrawn
  • 1993 - did not participate
  • 1996 - did not qualify
  • 1998 - preliminary round
  • 2000 - did not qualify
  • 2002 - preliminary round
  • 2003 - quarter-finals
  • 2005 - preliminary round
  • 2007 - preliminary round
  • 2009 - withdrawn
  • 2011 - preliminary round
  • 2013 - quarter finals
  • 2015 - quarter-finals
  • 2017 - did not qualify
  • 2019 - preliminary round
  • 2021 -

Caribbean Championship

Record player

(As of November 19, 2019)

Record player
Games player position Period Gates
126 (112) Yénier Marquez Defense 2000-2015 15 (13)
122 (111) Odelin Molina goal 1996-2013 0
82 (?) Jaime Colomé midfield 2002-2013 12
74 (?) Alexánder Cruzata Defense 1996-2005 2
73 (?) Lazaro Dalcourt midfield 1995-2003 21st
68 (?) Alaín Cervantes midfield 2003-2016 8th
66 (?) Silvio Miñoso Defense 2002-2008 0
65 (?) Reysander Fernández Defense 2003-2012 3
62 (≤60) Lester Moré attack 1995-2007 29 (27)
Record shooters
Gates player Period Games
29 (27) Lester Moré 1995-2007 62 (≤60)
21 (?) Lazaro Dalcourt 1995-2003 73 (?)
16 (?) Roberto Linares 2008–2012 42 (?)
15 (13) Yénier Marquez 2000-2015 126 (112)
13 (?) Eduardo Sebrango 1996-1998 23 (?)
12 (?) Serguei Prado 1999-2005 30 (?)
12 (?) Maykel Galindo 2002-2005 33 (?)
12 (?) Osmin Hernandez 1995-2004 46 (?)
12 (?) Jaime Colomé 2002-2013 82 (?)

Source: Cuba - Record International Players on rsssf.com

  1. Incl. Matches and goals against French Guiana , Guadeloupe , Martinique , Saint Martin and Sint Maarten , who are members of CONCACAF but not members of FIFA and are therefore not taken into account by FIFA. (Matches and goals recognized by FIFA in brackets, if different.)

Known players

Trainer

See also

Individual evidence

  1. FIFA does not take into account all of its games, as some of them were played against non-FIFA members.
  2. The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .
  3. Cubans have arrived in Bonn , spiegel.de
  4. Blatter se interesa sobre las deserciones de futbolistas cubanos  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.prensalibre.cr  in: Prensa Libre of April 18, 2013, accessed on August 1, 2013 (Spanish)
  5. Yosmel de Armas, Cuban soccer player, defects , in: Global Post from April 11, 2012, accessed on August 1, 2013 (English)
  6. ↑ International match in Canada: Cuban footballers break away , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from October 13, 2012, accessed on August 1, 2013
  7. USA vs. Cuba: Not a soccer game like any other  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stern.de   , in: Stern from July 12, 2013, accessed on August 1, 2013
  8. ^ Members of Cuban football team in police custody. In: RJR News from April 1, 2015, accessed May 5, 2015
  9. ^ Cuban footballers freed of rape charges.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / loopjamaica.com   In: Loop Jamaica, April 10, 2015, accessed May 5, 2015
  10. Nuevas sanciones en el fútbol cubano. In: On Cuba from May 20, 2015 (Spanish)
  11. Suspenden a seleccionador de Cuba por comportamiento racista. In: Marca of May 18, 2015 (Spanish)
  12. Luis Fernando Passo Alpuin: Cuba - Record International Players ( English ) rsssf.com. January 31, 2019. Accessed July 8, 2019.
  13. Favorite role for the coming season has probably already been assigned ( memento of the original from May 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fanreport.com
  14. Lautaro Ulloa-Ferreira - SV Frisia Loga ( Memento of the original from May 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radio-ostfriesland-sportzeit.de

Web links

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