Legendary Match | Cuba vs Brazil | Volleyball World Cup 2011

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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[@xongxiong4400]

Leon and Giba!!❤️❤️❤️ #Legends

[@fragus1000]

I cant imagine what would happen in situation when if Leon,Leal, Simon, Juantorrena played for Cuba.

[@4533793]

Don't forget Angel Dennis and Leonel Marshall

[@marinhomarinho4197]

Yeah but if doesn't win any game

[@killaforma]

They would have won everything!

[@omaririgoyen1234]

@@4533793 And others that people do not know that much.

[@KungFuTze]

@@4533793 Also, Oreol Camejo can set and he is the Outside hitter of Zenit St Petersburg and Hierrezuelo is a natural setter, and they can bring back the famous 6-2 from the 90s. If they kept together and didn't defect they'd be top 4 in the world. They won Silver in B2B tournaments between 09-10.

[@gusvanhaelst1853]

GIBA the volleyball GOAT😍

[@svilarino]

Nice to see the young León, Bruno and Wallace!

[@DucDung_]

I love cuba I'm from vietnam🇻🇳

[@nachodeadlift6327]

Leon 💟💟

[@Pahadiblood09]

Nobody should suspect the power of cuban volleyball......... Love Leal Leon Simon aties.......

[@user-sp1ct1jv6h]

I 💕 CUBA IM FROM INDIA

[@moisesmariscal5978]

The face of Leon says it is just a game, but Giba's face says this our business. It is amazing how they won this game without Simon Robertlandy.

[@omaririgoyen1234]

And without the other middle. They played with both middles from the bench when Simon and the other one were there.

[@Erykus-qf1zp]

Leon and Giba G.O.A.T.S

[@sandykang3308]

I regret,i didn’t watch this match before..excellent

[@Lovistarful]

2011. The year that Giba pass the torch to Leon

[@yaxyo7589]

This Cuban team was amazing. Go Leon❤️❤️❤️

[@bjsempre]

Yes, Cuba Volleyball. 😍💪

[@stefrank2345]

Nastavi sa ovim molim te, obozavam da ih gledaaam ❤️

[@carloskurek5397]

Leon the best of player volleyball

[@klaudi3013]

Leon PL👑

[@ezechiasmorales3635]

Admiro a leon. Mi maestro tecnologico

[@carloskurekk7887]

Leon The Best player

[@frankdeboeer5370]

Giba era o foda ! Crescí vendo me espelhando no Giba , até a mania de por a corrente do pescoço na boca também hahaha !!

[@andrreacapo]

my favourite players Giba and Leon

[@omaririgoyen1234]

Cuba also beat Brazil in 2001 World cup before the main players stayed in Belgium to not return. Otherwise the Brasil domination in that decade would not happen. In fact If that team would have stayed Cuba would have being winning until now with Simon and Leon Generation. Yes, for 20 years.

[@Lovistarful]

what i ve saying... world never know what would happpen if Cuba didnt lose that team in 2001... they could had beaten brasil for titles...

[@omaririgoyen1234]

@@Lovistarful Brazilian know they would have been beaten. Look no one know this. Right after the 2004 Olympic when Brazil beat 3-2 to Italy, just a month later Dennis told Italians, you know we would have been the champions. So, they set a match Cuban team in Italy vs Italy Cuba won 3-2. Then they called Brazilians and set a Match Cuban team beat them 3-1. The former coach of Brazilian women during the 90s became the man coach in 1999 when he saw that Cuba beat him in 2000 and 2001 world cup he said that he didn't have a good luck because of Cuba. I think all of this says it all.

[@franzmarq]

Giba and Leon 🔥

[@samueluwright5025]

Guys did we realise wilfredo Was 17 when he went to Italy in 2019 for the world championships and 18 here in this video 💪💪💪💪💪

[@acitipo]

Hay muchas y muchos buenísimos jugadores, pero para mi, los mas espectaculares jugadores que he visto en el pasado son Giba, y Mirella Luis.

[@lebbejern9646]

creo q no vistes al Rafa pascual

[@omaririgoyen1234]

Joel Despaigne from Cuba, Andrea Bernardi from Italy and there are others that were better than Giba, Including Rafael Pascual From Spain and Andrea Gianni from Italy.

[@RayRay-be1pn]

En los 90's cada país tenía un jugador espectacular: Países Bajos, España, Bulgaria, Rusia, Italia, Yugoslavia, Brasil, EE.UU., Cuba. De estos, solo España no estaba en la élite pq Rafael Pascual era el único que jugaba. Aún así, vi varios juegos en ligas mundiales que España llevó a Cuba, Brasil, Rusia y Holanda hasta el tie-break, solo con Rafa Pascual.

[@sembarang3291]

Leon 😍

[@killaforma]

León was already a beast back then.

[@jaysonlimbaro1936]

Giba 😍

[@phamthuong8459]

LEON❤

[@balvinderkaur1596]

leon❤❤❤❤❤❤💪💪💪💪💪💪💪❤❤

[@farahamelia5269]

Leon played for poland now

[@dawidpodbielski1167]

Played to forma przeszła od grać.

[@barshap.mohanty5338]

My dad is making me watch Volleyball so that I can play it better..

[@seebzar]

This music is annoying! What about the original sound?!

[@carlmar713]

Absolutely! What a crap music!

[@vahidfoger3540]

Music name??

[@macauley70]

Music sucks

[@Andrea4salvatore]

A real legendary match Is Italy vs Usa Rio semifinal 2016 Olympic match

[@maxuelsilva2832]

Awesome video, but these songs always make me turn off de volume.

[@castiglionihabanera]

Wilfredo Leon está presente, Giba é passado, além disso, Giba não é nem o flip-flop do que Wilfredo Leon é, talvez o melhor jogador de vôlei do mundo hoje.

[@Lovistarful]

ate que teve o Ricardo do seu lado kkkk quando o Ricardinho foi embora kkk prata e foi para o banco...

[@PISATELb_Pushkin]

Forever Leon

[@eneziobastos5069]

Giba super campeão....não seria loucura colocar ele no patamar de Senna , Jordan dentre outros atletas sendo no volley

[@thiagopiresmacedo8172]

Nessa época, ñ estava mais no seu auge, mas ainda jogava muito.

[@eneziobastos5069]

@@thiagopiresmacedo8172 e ele teve em baixa?......eu não vi essa fase não kkkkkkkkk

[@leyfing1541]

Hernandez is op....

[@leandroferreira7775]

Leon excelente jogador mas Giba é mais completo, explosão velocidade potência e um ótimo passe, é bonito ver o Giba subindo

[@abuarsh8085]

Leon is great

[@mohammadnayazgms3133]

Cuba😍

[@hungnguyen-tu1lo]

Leon, leal , simon tại sao họ không chơi chi đội tuyển Cuba nhỉ. Họ kết hợp lại sẽ là 1 đội rất mạnh 💪🏻

[@phuongpham980]

Như dịch ở trên thì Cuba cấm các cầu thủ của họ được chơi tại các CLB nước ngoài. Vì vậy các super stars của họ đổi quốc tịch để chơi tại các clb nước ngoài

[@premyuvan5041]

Cuba❤

[@nicolasmiranda6808]

Como se llama la música del vídeo por cierto muy buen partidazo 🏐

[@user-ov4dg8yt5w]

Джиба передал палочку лучшего доигровщика Леону

[@antoineomoboni8918]

Le pointu cubain il se prends de ses boîtes 😱😂

[@xxtrxshplayz_yt4359]

Giba all the way!

[@theoorsi01.]

I was playing there xd

[@corinnelangan6634]

Start at 3:12 , then you will see Nishinoya

[@canaldocoelho8190]

GIBA GOAT

[@dangngocthanh2360]

Leon giờ chuyển quốc tịch rồi...còn đánh cho Cuba đâu

[@AgusJungTriadi]

giba

[@LucasHenrique-gm4hi]

Giba vs Leon. 😃

[@mohdilya9870]

What happened to the old cuban team ?

[@pawek9703]

They ran away to Europe/Brazil to live normal life and they're banned to play for Cuba NT because of that. Recently R. Simon got the permition back but Leal, Leon two biggest stars started a new life - Leal plays for Brazil NT and Leon plays for Poland (he has Polish citizenship, Polish wife and a daughter). Until Cuba won't let players to play in foreign clubs and play for NT despite that (like in normal country) they will never be strong.

[@gw-tv5165]

@@pawek9703 you missed Juantorena now playing for Italy NT

[@pawek9703]

@@gw-tv5165 Yes, him too but he has finished playing for Cuba before Leon & Leal generation.

[@gw-tv5165]

@@pawek9703 but imagine cuba has all these 3 open hitters plus simon as middle. They could have been the team to beat in every international tourney.

[@hhomebody]

Ready, Set, Gab! aka Lube

[@willpark2350]

Wait I thought Leo was from Netherlands wtf

[@castiglionihabanera]

Wilfredo Leon es presente, Giba es pasado, ademas, Giba no es ni la chancleta de lo que es Wilfredo Leon, quiza el mejor jugador de voleibol de la actualidad en todo el mundo.

[@juanestebangaleano8822]

¿Por qué ahora Leon juega con Polonia? No entiendoo

[@emanuelsanchez6596]

El vivir tanto tiempo en otro país te dan el derecho a poder elegir la nacionalidad del país en el que habitas, en este caso León quiero nacionalizarse polaco porque vio más oportunidades de trascender ahí que con Cuba quiero pensar yo

[@oollaa12341]

Hace unos años, Wilfredo se casó con una niña polaca, tiene una hija polaca con ella, habla bien el polaco y está muy conectado con el polaco. Es polaco :)

[@omaririgoyen1234]

@Mamba y todos los demas soy cubano y fui del equipo de voleibol de la generacion de los que se quedaron fuera de Cuba en el 2001. Los atletas cubanos se van de Cuba porque no pueden resolver sus problemas economicos a niveles normales. Tienes razon. El daño esta mas que hecho. Cuba pudo domimar por los ultimos 20 años

[@migueljunco9128]

@@emanuelsanchez6596 el gobierno de cuba hasta hace muy poco no permitía q ningún jugador de ningún deporte q viviera fuera de cuba jugara para la selección nacional, para los comunistas todo el q se vaya ea un traidor, ahora han permitido algunos jugadores q ellos( el gobierno) decidan bajo unas condiciones q no todos estan dispuestos a cumplir.

[@user-mf9gv7yq3z]

Los animales

[@mijailrodriguez5415]

El nro 19 de cuba el tal Hernandez . Es un mala gana ... Le bloquean todo ... No deberian haber convocado jugadores asi

[@alejoroldan8658]

Tambien usaba mucho y creo que era su salida fuerte, ademas de leon, que tenia solo 18 años.

[@mijailrodriguez5415]

@@alejoroldan8658 hay una gran diferencia en la actitud .... Entre León y Hernandez .. Ahi se ve quien es el ganador

[@felipemaldonado8028]

Eso es lo que muestran los highlights, al final Hernandez fue quien anoto mas puntos en todo el partido (22), seguido por Giba con 21.

[@felipemaldonado8028]

De hecho Hernandez fue el mejor anotador de la copa (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_FIVB_Volleyball_Men%27s_World_Cup)

[@alejoroldan8658]

@@felipemaldonado8028 Hechos concretos

[@mrkeo6102]

Ngapeth

[@williammunny9916]

*_John 14.6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me._* *_John 11.25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live._* _Only Jesus Christ saves. Repent and be saved. Jesus Christ loves you. God bless you, and peace be upon you and your family in the name of Jesus Christ._

[@pelangi_hitam]

giba