Hamamatsu, Japan, November 28, 2011 - Coming off an impressive victory against world No. 3 Italy on Sunday, No. 6 Cuba continued to play beyond their ranking by knocking off top-ranked Brazil 3-2 (17-25, 25-22, 25-23, 20-25, 15-12) on Monday in 2011 FIVB Men’s World Cup third round action.
Cuba’s leading scorer was Fernando Hernandez Ramos who notched 22. His captain Wilfredo Leon Venero put up 16 points. Isbel Mesa Sandobal had a great day on the defensive end with six of Cuba’s 15 blocks. Cuba was outblocked 8-1 in a disastrous first set, but in the other sets they were the superior blockers by a count of 14 to 6. Leading Brazil in scoring was the captain Gilberto Godoy Filho (Giba) also with 21, many of those in critical moments. Brazil outscored Cuba 107-102 in the match, but still lost.
To start, Brazil’s Leandro Vissotto Neves served up an early ace and Sidnei dos Santos Jr (aka Sidão) posted two blocks including one on the lefty Hernandez to go ahead 7-4. Brazil had luck on their side too, as a Murilo Endres serve hit tape and trickled over for an ace to go ahead five. Giba and Vissotto brought two more blocks, as Cuba’s attackers had difficulty getting in any rhythm, Brazil moving out to a 16-9 lead. Sidão’s third block on Cisnero Henry Bell was the team’s seventh in the set, making it 23-12, and despite a Cuba mini-run late, Brazil took the first set easily 25-17.
The second set was more competitive with Hernandez throwing down two aces, his second to bring it to an 11-11 tie. Cuba then edged ahead on Yassel Perdomo Naranjo block on Giba, but Brazil’s own blocking still frustrated Cuba, with Hernandez pounding the referee’s chair in anger having been denied by Vissotto. Brazil would tie at 19 as Leon fired a spike wide, trying to avoid aggressive blockers. Hernandez put the team on his back with three key spikes to close, 25-22, finally evading Brazil’s blockers.
In the third, Cuba got their own block going with Perdomo and Mesa posting stuffs on Vissotto and Murilo respectively to go up 7-3. They hung onto that lead until a spirited Giba run-down, leaping his own bench to retrieve a ball, helped spark a Brazil run. Eventually they came back to tie on a flying spike from none other than the colorful captain, Giba himself, 15-15, but Leon and Hernandez shrugged it off, putting Cuba back ahead 21-17 punctuated by a Leon stuff block on an attacking Giba. In the end, a Vissotto net serve gave Cuba the set 25-23, making it 2-1 in their favor.
Brazil looked to their captain in the fourth, and he responded with back-to-back aces to help them go up 8-5. Wallace de Souza chipped in with a block on Leon and two hard spikes, helping the team way ahead 17-11. Hernandez drove a hard spike to the corner to come back within four, but Brazil went to Giba for two key spikes late, and then to Murilo to finish the set 25-20, evening things at two sets all.
In the tiebreaker Bell helped put his side ahead by three with a spike and a block back-to-back at 7-4, but he’d deliver an errant serve, and Leon followed with a spike that just missed to let Brazil back within one 7-6. But it was blocking that won it late for Cuba as Yoandry Díaz Carmenate put a key stuff on Theo Lopes to go ahead 13-10, and Mesa’s sixth block of the contest clinched it 15-12 (and the match 3-2) denying Murilo at the net.
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