FIDEL CASTRO RUZSan Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba.- He was born with the angel of victory tattooed on the soul. He knew that sport join peoples and ennobles mortals, for that and many other reasons, he practiced it successfully. He played football with mastery, basketball with a unique style, swam as an Olympic athlete, played baseball and practiced spearfishing.
This was the life of the protagonist of this chronicle in his path through sport. He had the lineage of an innate leader. He learned the need to renew the sports movement on the island to benefit the people. He formalized the organization of the National Baseball Series in February, 1961. He was the driving motor of the Voluntary Sports Councils and the program of Physical Education and Institution of Sports School, quarry of our Olympic and world champions.
Protagonist of epic battles. So, testify ‘’ El Cerro Pelado’’ and its delegation and the baseball team that won the World Cup in Nicaragua and played against the ‘’Orioles of Baltimore’’ in the ‘’Latinoamericano’’.
The winner was able to think of the future with the creation of the ALBA Games, Cuban Sports Olympics and ‘’Barrio Adentro Deportivo’’, a program created by the eternal Commander Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías. Sports world Stars felt proud of sharing their words. Diego Armando Maradona gave him a soccer ball and he gave him his military cap. These are evidences of his greatness, simplicity and humility.
This is the man who inspired this story. An eternal winner. Ninetieth lover of physical and mental health. A mortal of his time, an emancipator of future, a maker of dreams. His name is people, he is Fidel Castro Ruz.
