Cuba men's national volleyball team
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| Nickname(s) | Powerful | ||
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| Association | Federación Cubana De Voleibol | ||
| Confederation | NORCECA | ||
| FIVB ranking | 13 (as of August 2016) | ||
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| Summer Olympics | |||
| Appearances | 7 (First in 1972) | ||
| Best result | 3rd (1976) | ||
| World Championship | |||
| Appearances | 14 (First in 1956) | ||
| Best result | 2nd (1990, 2010) | ||
The Cuba men's national volleyball team (Spanish: Selección masculina de voleibol de Cuba) is the national team of Cuba. Cuba in the 1976 Summer Olympics won the bronze medal. Other achievements of the team winning one World League, one World Grand Champions Cup and fifteen NORCECA Championships. Cuba have winner two silver and two bronze World Championship medals and have won the NORCECA Championship 15 times.
The following is the Cuban roster in the men's volleyball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Head coach: Nicolás Vives
Eight members of the Cuban national men's volleyball team, including the team's captain, were held in Tampere, Finland on suspicion of aggravated gang rape of a 35-year-old Finnish woman, as of July 2016. Two of them were discarded of the claims later. The incident took place in the Hotel Ilves at Tampere where the Olympics-bound Cuban team were staying. The arrested players were scheduled to play in the Cuban team at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
On 16 August, the six team members still remaining in custody were charged with aggravated rape at Pirkanmaa District Court and the proceedings started on 29 August. On 20 September, four of the men, Osmany Santiago Uriarte Mestre, Rolando Cepeda Abreu, Ricardo Norberto Calvo Manzano and Abraham Alfonso Gavilán were given five-year jail sentences while Luis Tomás Sosa Sierra is facing a prison term of three and a half years.
According to the NYT, the Cuban Volleyball Association stated early on that the athletes’ behavior was counter to the “discipline the sense of honor and respect that govern our sport and society.”
The table below shows the history of kit providers for the Cuba national volleyball team.
Primary sponsors include: main sponsors like Honda.
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