Eric Gutiérrez Rodríguez, director of physical recreation at Inder, reported that Cuba has requested to host the 2023 Domino World Championship.
“We made the request during the attendance of a small Cuban delegation at the recent world competition in the discipline, held in the Dominican Republic. It was very well received,” said the manager.
“We made the request to the General Assembly of the World Domino Federation (Fedemundo), which also welcomed Cuba as a full member,” he stressed.
“From our proposal came the interest that Varadero be the next venue and that the number of participants be greater than the championship organized by the Dominican Republic, of about 150 participants,” he argued.
In the Assembly, once the presence of the largest Caribbean archipelago was confirmed, the Cuban Lázaro Hernández Reyes was elected as a member of the Fedemundo executive.
“Hernández, vice president of the Cuban Domino Federation, will work in the Fedemundo disciplinary commission,” said Gutiérrez.
Cuba has already organized three world domino championships, the first in Havana in 2003, attended by 150 couples and won by locals Osmil Daudinot and Salvador Cabrales.
The others took place in 2006 and 2007. All of them were played in the form of up to double six, the so-called competitive dominoes. Now attempts are being made to include the variant up to double nine, which is more deeply rooted in the west of our country.
Gutiérrez took advantage of the occasion to contact representatives of the Dominican rugby federations and the canophile.
(With information from JIT)