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Verónica Alvarez. Photo: USA Baseball.
The United States demonstrated indisputable superiority during their contest in pool A of the Women’s Baseball World Cup, which ended on Sunday. In the Canadian city of Thunder Bay, the North American team finished with a perfect performance in five games: 3-2 against Australia, 14-0 against South Korea, 23-0 against Canada, 29-0 against Hong Kong and 2-0. before Mexico.
At the helm of the American squad was a woman with Cuban blood, Verónica Ofelia Álvarez, who at the time was the best catcher in women’s baseball in the country of stars and stripes. She, born in Miami on April 7, 1983, is the daughter of Julio Álvarez from Havana and Ofelia Álvarez from Las Tunas, who left the island in the early 1960s, when they were children, according to a report by ADN Cuba.
Veronica, after playing softball for a few years, returned to the ball and established herself as an extra class catcher. She contributed to the United States being on three world podiums (bronze in Japan 2008 and Venezuela 2010, and silver in Canada 2012). Her last tournament as her athlete was the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games, where she finished with first place.
Shortly after her retirement, she began a new stage as a coach and in the 2018 edition of the Women’s World Cup in Florida, she joined the coaching staff of the American team. The following year she directed for the first time and led her country to the title of the Women’s Pan American Championship, which took place in Aguascalientes, Mexico.
In March 2019, her name gained more popularity, after the Oakland Athletics hired her as one of their coaches. He was offered the chance to groom his players at catcher during the organization’s spring training in Mesa, Arizona.
Álvarez, who is also a firefighter-paramedic, according to Hola magazine, “at the end of her career as a professional player, she continued to use her baseball talents to train a new generation in the MLB Trailblazer Series from 2017 to 2019, and in the MLB Girls Baseball Breakthrough Series Showcase & Development Camp, in 2018 and 2019.
“She became the first woman to be named Rod Dedeaux Coach of the Year, for her work in charge of the women’s national team in 2019.”
She was also the manager of the American cast that participated from July 28 to August 1, 2022, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, in a friendly series against Canada.
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2023-08-18 12:31:51
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