The Cuban men's volleyball team returned home with its dream fulfilled, having qualified for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games by defeating Canada in the Norceca Olympic Qualifying Final, a result that comes after a decade since its last Olympic participation in men's volleyball.

The members of the Cuban delegation were received at José Martí International Airport by Yuneidy Imbert Caple, deputy head of the Department for Attention to the Social Sector of the Central Committee of the Party, Daniel Bas Pérez, an official of the Central Committee of the Party, Osvaldo Vento Montiller, president of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder), and other sports officials.

In his welcoming remarks, Vento Montiller said: the people of Cuba are happy, you dreamed and dreams came true, life shows us that in sports, through discipline and dedication, everything can be achieved.

A path now begins, the Olympic Games, it was our turn this time and we reaffirm the confidence that the Party, the government leadership and the people have in you, he expressed.

Jesús Cruz, technical director of the Cuban men's volleyball team, stressed that this result had been awaited by the people for the past few years, a pre-Olympic tournament where we faced Canada, which we knew would be the most difficult rival to reach the ticket, with which the same qualification was lost four years ago.

It was a very difficult and tense match, since Canada, host of this tournament, prepared a scenario where they would be the winners of this competition, and the Cuban team went out to fulfill a dream that had been delayed for several years and the result came in the final match of the tournament, he considered.

Technical director Cruz, who arrived in the early hours of the morning along with three other athletes, joined the welcome.