Edilse Silva, fourth bat of the Santiago de Cuba team, acknowledged that she was sanctioned by the national leadership of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) for posting on her social media of an image criticizing the food athletes receive.
Yet the INDER has not publicly announced the sanction, which will be three-party, Days ago rumors began to circulate in this regard in groups of Cuban baseball fans. Despite the support he received from most users, Silva said posting the image on the networks was “an indiscipline.”
“I appreciate everything because I know they support me and want the best for the team, but what I am asking is that we do not give it a political approach, it is not about mass protests or claims“As many have stated,” the Santiago native wrote.
“I committed 1 indiscipline and I accept it, I recognized it at the time, that doesn’t make me a better or worse person, I used social media to express my dissatisfaction with something without taking into account that there are other instances to which I could go “, Has added to his Facebook profile.
The player said that he published the image when he let himself be carried away by “emotional impulses, typical of the tensions that are experienced in these times”. “They don’t know how it affects us sometimes to see that we can’t offer a show like the people deserve, at full stage. But the pandemic will pass and these times will come again,” he added.
“We all make mistakes at some point, and as a public figure I am responsible for my act and my mistake will be acknowledged. “, Silva wrote, and asked for support from the fans during the three games he will be sanctioned.
“Look at the food they gave us today, a team in Play Off,” was what Silva wrote last January 30 next to a photo, which shows a box with yellow rice, cassava and chicken. Shortly afterwards he deleted the post.
Santiago player Osday Silva Hernández then replied: “We have become accustomed to the economic situation of our country, but what I do not conceive is to understand how it is possible for a team that is in the struggle of our national pastime, baseball, to go through this kind of thing, which is what the Vespas de Santiago are going through today.
He then added: “Who is to blame I do not know or care, but this is what happened today with our team, it is a great disrespect and must be done by someone who responds to this action.”