These days are held the last gamesof the qualifying stage of the 51 National Series at par, the Champions Football League. Regarding these two sports I intend to reflect on who rules the national sports. It is no secret that the quality of Cuban baseball is not that of the eighties, when Cuba exhibited their best baseball, with names such as Luis Giraldo Casanova, Omar Linares, Germain Mesa, Antonio Pacheco and other stars. Now the reality is different. Our baseball does not win internationally and solutions fail despite the efforts and discussions with Caribbean federation and the Baseball Federation in America itself.
While the fans in the country only has access to Cuban players in the National Series, our sports media promotes and conveys the best football in the world with the best professional leagues. So football fans, they revel in the exquisite plays Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Andres Iniesta and goalkeeper Iker Casillas, but baseball are complain, because they are the same to the screen. Why not do the same with baseball?
In today's professionalism in sport is total. There is no longer the amateur and only Cuba defends that theory to national pride. Baseball is the only one that has limitations regarding the transmission of matches that level, and not only so-called majors, but even pro ball is transmitted from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Korea and Japan , for baseball lovers, also known players like Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez, Ichiru Suzuki, Edgar Renteria and Miguel Bautista, just to mention some names.
¿Baseball or Football?, That is the question to know what really is the sport of choice in Cuba these days. More is known in the country's young fans, the leadership of the Professional Football Leagues, the Baseball Series. They prefer to see a classic Real Madrid to Barcelona, than Industrial versus Santiago de Cuba.
Responsibles? We all are. From the press and its directors in the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television, responsible for conveying to the public good football, but also good ball to the federation of the National Baseball Commission, not yet show flexibility on the issue of getting the people a good deal baseball as fans deserve our national pastime, culture and root of all Cubans.
First is our product, the revolutionary sports, town ball or football that is played in the country. Both the National Baseball Championship as the Cuban Soccer, cry out for radical change in its structure, immobility is detrimental to the interests of the beholder, of course, prefer to see a Barcelona with Inter Milan before Santiago de Cuba versus Ciego de Avila in football Creole.
I think that until we are able to make him see the people that baseball is as professional as football, we will not achieve the international domain about balls and strikes in any of the leagues. It is true that football is a world spectacle and draws a large following, even in countries where baseball is the national sport, but in Cuba baseball is passion.
Baseball culture of a people is not deleted from the overnight, are significant continuing professional football broadcasts League of Spain, Italy, Brazil and Argentina, which I also enjoy but not transmitted baseball clashes at these levels and is part of the national identity of baseball practice.
People are needed to see professional baseball and thus be updated in the level of those players compared to ours. If we act that way, sports fans may be ready for when the Third Classic World Baseball, where you played in Cuba for you, with their Yulieski, Cepeda, Despaigne, Pestano and Olivera, leased to the best players in the world.
When we can keep people from hearing the same level in a game of football or baseball at the highest level, we will end the controversy related to this phenomenon which invades us these days. ¿Baseball or football?, Who's in charge?