The Cuban men’s team lost in five sets to hosts Canada at the start of the first week of the Ottawa-based Nations League Pool 1.

According to the International Federation website www.fivb.com, they lost in a close game against the Canadian locals, who won the first half, 25-21, lost in the second (26-28), reacted in the third (25 – 21), they relaxed in fourth (22-25) and finished fifth and last (15-13).

The official stats for the challenge reflected the dominance of the disciples of Nicolás Vives in attack, 75 points to 57, but the northerners were much better on the counter (17-6) and their own mistakes that contributed so much to the outrages (24-35). ), as well as a tie on serve (3-3).

The condition of top scorer of the challenge was also in contradiction, since the Cuban Jesús Herrera deserved this condition with 28 points, 24 in attack, two in counter and two in the service, followed by the Canadian Joseph Sclater (27/22- 4-1) .

Miguel Ángel López (15/15-0-0), Marlon Yant (15/15-0-0), Javier Concepción (12/8-2-1) and José Massó (11/15-0-0) also finished for Cuba with double digits. 8-2-1), and for Canada, Timothy Maar (18/14-2-2), Nicholas Hoag (10/6-4-0) and Danny Demyanenko (10/6-4-0).

This Wednesday 7, the team of the largest of the Antilles will not play, since the agreed matches are United States-Netherlands and Brazil-Germany.

The next meeting of the Cubans will take place on Thursday 8 and will have as an opponent the team of the Netherlands, in a day which ends with the meetings between Italians and Americans and Argentinians and Brazilians.

In Ottawa, home of pool 1, Argentina also won, with a victory against Italy and a score of 3-0 (25-22, 25-23 and 25-18).

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The Nations League also played in Pool 2 based in Nagoya, Japan, with hosts China and Japan winning 3-2 over Bulgaria (25-20, 21-25, 25-21, 20-25 and 15 -9) and Iran 3-0 (25-16, 25-22 and 25-15), respectively.

The challenges for this Wednesday 7 of Pool 2 are Slovenia-Serbia, Poland-France and Slovenia-Bulgaria, in that order.