The following is the Cuban roster in the 2024 FIVB Volleyball Men Nations League Head coach: Jesus Cruz After 2001, many players defected from Cuba seeking better life conditions.

The arrested players were scheduled to play with the Cuban team at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

[6] On 20 September, four of the men, Osmany Uriarte, Rolando Cepeda Abreu, Ricardo Norberto Calvo, and Abraham Alfonso Gavilán were given five-year jail sentences, while Luis Sosa Sierra was facing a prison term of three and a half years.

[9][10] Sosa Sierra was found not guilty due to lack of evidence, and he received compensation from the government of Finland of 200,000 euros for financial and reputational harm.

[11] According to The New York Times, the Cuban Volleyball Association stated early on that the athletes’ behavior was counter to the “discipline the sense of honor and respect that govern our sport and society”.