Nicknamed "Volleyball guru",[1] George led the Cuban women's team to gold medals at the Olympics in 1992, 1996,[2] and 2000.

[7] He began playing volleyball in 1947 at the Pepe Barrientos Gymnasium in the Luyano neighborhood in Havana.

[8] He played on the Cuban national volleyball team for a few years, and participated in the 1955 and 1959 Pan American Games.

He built up the foundation of the Cuban men's volleyball team that took the gold medal at the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games in San Juan.

[11] In 2009, the NORCECA Congress in Antigua, Guatemala established the "Eugenio George Lafita Trophy" to the Most Outstanding Coach of the biennial Women's Continental Championship.