GATINEAU, Canada, August 19, 2024.- Coaches are ready for the NORCECA Men’s Final 6 competition that kicks off on Wednesday at the Slush Puppie Center in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.
USA head coach Andy Read: “Coming back to the Final 6 as champions from last year is a great honor and challenge for us. It’s a different team compared with last year’s team, and a different team than we had at the Pan Am Cup earlier this summer, where we finished second. This is a lot of our NextGen players who are going to be in LA 2028 or Brisbane. It’s an opportunity to play high-level volleyball with teams from our zone, and I’m excited for that. It’s going to be a great tournament.”
Canada head coach Glenn Hoag: “This is quite a modified group from the Pan Am Cup earlier this year (where Canada won gold). There are nine new players, and we had a good training period of a couple of weeks. It will be a great event to test the guys; we’ve profiled the players that were in the Pan Am Cup, but now we will see how they will come together and perform. This is the last event of the summer, and we want to try to do our best on a home court…. Some of the players are quite young, U21 and U23, so we’re looking forward to seeing how they will do.”
Dominican Republic head coach José Dante Aristides Mañon Torres: “Our expectations are good because we have a very young team. We have been reinforcing the senior team with Under-23 players, thinking about the upcoming Under-23 event.”
Cuba head coach Jesus Angel Cruz Lopez: “This team is very young, and the expectation is to try to be among the four finalists of the tournament. We have the opportunity for players who haven’t had much international experience to measure themselves against opponents of a similar age or at another level, which is good for observing them.”
Puerto Rico head coach Oswald Antonetti Cameron (not yet arrived)
Mexico head coach Carlos Eduardo Schwanke (not yet arrived)
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