The players from Las Tunas, Sandy Sánchez and Sandro Cutiño, travel today from Brazil to Guatemala to join the National Soccer Team, which had scheduled their first training session on Monday morning, ahead of next Wednesday's game against the local squad.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- Sandy arrives as a clear favorite to defend the Antillean goal in two days, while Sandro could be a valid alternative in the center of a defense that will be guarded a priori by Yosel Piedra, from the Guatemalan Sanarate FC, and Carlos Vázquez (Cavafe), player for the Spanish Alcorcón who is on loan at the CDA Navalcarnero, of the Second Division B of that country.

Both players, along with forward Sánder Fernández, belong to the Navegantes Esporte Clube, from Segunda B, in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. None of them, however, have been able to officially play since they arrived at the end of 2020, as problems with their documentation have prevented their debut.

However, their situation will not be very different from that faced by most of those in the national team, who have not played in the international arena for more than a year and will have to take advantage of just two training days to integrate the active players of other leagues into the group.

“Although soccer is a collective sport, where interrelation is very important, we trust that there is a lot of desire in the group to do a good job here,” Cuban DT Pablo Elier Sánchez told the Prensa Latina news agency after his arrival on Guatemalan soil.

In addition to Carlos Vázquez and Yosel Piedra, already in the Central American country, the arrival of the team's great star, forward Onel Hernández, a player with the Norwich City in England's Second Division, was expected on Monday, along with the attacker Maikel Reyes, of the Real Sociedad of Honduras.

"It is a team that is going to change the image of Cuban soccer and we are only waiting for the moment to show it on the field," said captain Arichel Hernández, one of the starters in the center of the field.