Who thought it was a good idea to take the Cuban team to FLA?!
March 12th, 2008 . by Stankoniforous One 
Out there somewhere on the streets of Tampa, some Cubano young’ns are on the lam. Five members of the Cuban national soccer team are nowhere to be found, raising suspicions that they may have defected. This definitely can’t be good news for Raul. Al Davis strikes again!
It gets better:
Gonzalez also confirmed that there was no security plan in place around the Cuban team to avoid defections. The team was staying at the Doubletree Hotel Tampa Westshore Airport.
Who made sure the hotel doors were padlocked? It had to be obvious that the first chance available someone was gonna vamp out. It’s almost like Gonzalez was begging players to defect. How hard is it to catch a cab? Language barrier, the reader might say. It’s FLA, at least 5 out of 10 cabbies have to speak Spanish.
The five players, who are ghost, leaves the Cuban team with only 13; of which 12 are available to play after Linares received a red card in the 1-1 draw against the United States.
What’s worse is the Cuban team might have to forfeit the rest of the tournament. Now the international politics part is of no concern, but an undeserving team might become an Olympic qualifier because of this.
