Coach Roger Machado will be the manager of the Cuban national team that will hold 18 games since next June 9 th against teams from the Canadian-American (Can-Am) Baseball League.

Rio de Janeiro - Five thousand samples for anti-doping tests will be collected and processed by the Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory (LBCB) during the Olympic Games in Rio-2016, as confirmed by sources from the Ministry of Sport.

Cuba qualified to the coming Futsal World Cup to be held in September in the Colombian city of Cali, along Costa Rica, Guatemala and Panama.

Paris - The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) today ruled to reduce the sanction, from six to four years, against the suspended president of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), Frenchman Michel Platini.

Havana - The recent classification of badmintonplayer Osleni Guerrero rose to 86 the number of Cuban athletes in 14 sports so far to take part in the 2016 Olympic Games, scheduled for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug.5-21.

Havana, Cuba - Hungarian Zoltan Almasi, Bulgarian Ivan Cheparinov and Ukrainian Yuri Krivoruchko will complete the roster of the Elite group of the Capablanca Memorial Chess Tournament scheduled for Varadero from June 8 to 20.