“I will fulfill what I promised you,” Cuban baseball player Miguel Camacho wrote to his father when he confirmed his arrival in the United States on Thursday. Rolando Camacho Roly died en route on February 7 in a traffic accident on the Pan-American Highway near the community of Tipitapa and near Augusto C. Sandino International Airport in Managua (Nicaragua).
Roly was the pitching coach at Mayabeque and had left the island in early February accompanied by his son, who has the qualities to seek a major league opportunity. En route to the US, they arrived in Managua and boarded a vehicle headed toward the community of Jalapa near the Honduras border, TN8 said.
“A speeding truck swerved into the roadway and crashed into the car it was traveling in. The suspected perpetrator fled,” posted the athletes’ friend Nelson De La Rosa Rodríguez. “Migue was with him. Thank goodness he wasn’t physically hurt, but he’s emotionally devastated.”
Since Nicaragua announced visa abolition for Cubans last November, thousands of desperate travelers have packed the offices of airlines like Conviasa and Copa Airlines to snag a ticket to Managua.
Roly was the pitching coach at Mayabeque and had left the island in early February accompanied by his son, who has the qualities to seek a major league opportunity.
Seventeen days after the tragedy, Miguel Camacho accomplished his goal of reaching the United States and thanked his father for his teachings. “You created a warrior. The ones who never give up.”
Already in the United States, “Camacho will try to sign a professional contract and fulfill his father’s legacy”, emphasizes the journalist Francys Romero, recalling that the player “has played in four National Series with the Hurricanes of Mayabeque”. And on the Mayabeque wall, “Los Hurricanes” made room to wish the 22-year-old baseball player every success.
This Thursday it was confirmed that the players who left the island in November 2021, Darlin Jimenez and Gustavo Urgellés, “are already in Mexico”, according to Romero, “they had a two-month stay in Russia before joining Brian Chi .”
Jímenez had a .329/.390/.471 offensive line, six doubles, two triples and five RBIs with Granma in the 60th National Series. “That performance has earned him a spot in Cuba’s pre-selection for the U-23 World Cup in Mexico in October,” explained the communicator. “Urgellés is a catcher who joined Cuban teams in the children’s categories and later took part in the Pan American U-15 Games in Mexico.”
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