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Nelson Ramírez.
The men’s national volleyball team will go out This Saturday at noon to Guatemala to participate in the U19 Pan American Cup, where three places are available for next year’s World Championship.
The tournament, which will as the headquarters of the Dome of the city of Guatemala, will begin next Monday and will culminate. on Saturday the 28th of this month.
The tricolor group will play in Group A together with Puerto Rico, Honduras and Guatemala, while the “B”, qualified as the group of death, will be Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico and the United States.
Nelson Ramírez, director of the National Project for Men’s National Teams, that the group is It is made up of the young people recruited in the camp they held last February in the Volleyball Pavilion of the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center, the overwhelming majority of whom came from the interior of the country.
The selection is made up of the dancers Romer Leandro González (Barahona) and Ruby Osorio (Santiago); central defenders Gabriel Minier (Mao), Johendry Rivera (Santo Domingo) and Ángel Gil Frías, as well as such as usher William Páez (Santiago), opposites Franklin Reyes (Moca), Sandy Rodríguez (San José de las Matas), Jean Luis Abreu (SD), Luis Miguel Jiménez (San Francisco de Macorí s) and Allen Baldera (Santiago), as well as as the libero Franly Encarnación (SD).
The coach is Amaury Martínez, a virtuoso of defense on the floor in his playing days, who will be in charge of the game. assisted by Francisco Lerebourg.
Ramírez clarified that the trip will be made with funds from the Dominican Volleyball Federation.
The Pan American Cup offers three tickets for the highest ranked NORCECA teams among those who are not yet qualified for the FIVB World Championship.< /p>