Eriel Sanchez.

Photo: Escambray

In less than a month and with an atypical calendar, the 62nd version of the National Baseball Series will be a fact.

In that period, the Roosters must find "another head", after their director for three years, Eriel Sánchez León, requested their release.

What was a rumor in days will materialize in hours

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Speculation returns to haunt the extent to which it influences being excluded, illogically, from all national baseball management projects after winning a bronze medal last year.

But Eriel offers other reasons: “Definitely with the pain of my soul I am not going to direct, I have personal problems that I have not yet resolved and I

In fact, I'm not leaving baseball nor am I breaking with it, because I'm still part of the coaching staff of the Provincial Academy, I'm just taking time to solve those personal problems”.

Although the decision to resign was cooked before, Eriel remained at the head of the shortlist.

“What I love the most is baseball and I have been giving my bit, helping these coaches who are going to take over, helping in the preparation and discipline, I am to a certain extent repaying something they did with me, when I entered the Under-23 , rather than replace, I continued the work of Lázaro Martínez, who for me is prepared to assume responsibility”.

—To what extent does it influence such a decision that so many players from the mainstays in the team have left?

-I have always been with new Roosters and new challenges, from the first year with the Sub-23, I did not have everyone who should be at that time and I took over, just like the second year.

In the Roosters, when we reached the first two places in the regular phases of the last campaigns, I had seven casualties in each one, that is, that for me is not an impediment, I have always liked working with men and not with names " .

—With the desire to direct that you had... Did you get tired?

-The ones that tired me were the personal problems, I leave physically, but I leave my heart with the boys, with the years one matures and now is when I have the best relationship with them, when they understand me the most, we have good communication;

With my form, my discipline and my character, I achieved things with them, even knowing that I was leaving, they respected me until the last day, that gave me the measure that I did not earn respect by imposing it, that makes me happy”.

—You leave without the flavor of the title.

-I am leaving with the disappointment of not having given a title to the people, but I am not going badly, maybe I would go with him, but I would not have had individual or collective results in discipline, cohesion, changing the game... Many They did not have in their projects to be part of Cuba teams and they achieved it, they recognize it, so the work was not in vain, I am leaving hurt for abandoning a ship that I would not have liked to abandon ”.

(Taken from Escambray)

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