Venezuela national baseball team

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Venezuela national baseball team
Country  Venezuela
Federation Federación Venezolana de Béisbol
Confederation COPABE
Manager Luis Sojo
World Baseball Classic
Appearances 2 (First in 2006)
Best result 3rd
World Cup
Appearances 18 (First in 1940)
Best result 1st Gold (1941, 1944 & 1945)
Intercontinental Cup
Appearances 2 (First in 1973)
Best result 6th (2002)
Pan American Games
Appearances 3 (First in 1955)
Best result 1st Gold (1959)

The Venezuela national baseball team is the national team of Venezuela.

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[edit] Uniforms

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[edit] World Baseball Classic

In June 2005, Major League Baseball announced the formation of the World Baseball Classic, a sixteen nation international competition to be held in March of 2006 for the first time. The team Venezuela sent to the 2006 and 2009 World Baseball Classic included Venezuelan players from Major League Baseball. A player is eligible to participate on a WBC national team if:

  • The player is a citizen of the nation the team represents.
  • The player is qualified for citizenship or to hold a passport under the laws of a nation represented by a team, but has not been granted citizenship or been issued a passport, then the player may be made eligible by WBCI upon petition by the player or team.
  • The player is a permanent legal resident of the nation or territory the team represents.
  • The player was born in the nation or territory the team represents.
  • The player has one parent who is, or if deceased was, a citizen of the nation the team represents.
  • The player has one parent who was born in the nation or territory the team represents.[1]

Venezuela competed in the 2009 World Baseball Classic, playing its opening games in Pool C, in Toronto. The Venezuelans secured advancement out of Pool C with a pair of resounding wins over Italy. Along the way, Venezuela also lost a 15-6 slugfest against the United States.[2]

[edit] 2009 IBAF World Cup

In 2009, Europe will host the IBAF World Cup. It will mark the first time in history the Baseball World Cup will not be hosted by a certain country, but rather a whole continent. The 2009 Baseball World Cup will take place from September 9-27. Seven European countries will host and participant in the tournament of 22 teams. The event will be made up of five groups consisting of four teams each, for a total of 20 teams. Italy (Bollate, Bologna, Codogno, Florence, Macerata, Milano, Parma, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia, Rimini, San Marino, Torino, Trieste, Verona & Vicenza) and Netherlands (Rotterdam, Haarlem & Amsterdam) serve as hosts of the sixteen teams of the second round (September 14-20), and therefore receive first round byes. The groups are as follows:[3]

[edit] Placings

World Baseball Classic

Baseball World Cup

   

Pan American Games

Intercontinental Cup

  • 1973 : did not qualify
  • 1975 : did not qualify
  • 1977 : 9th
  • 1979 : did not qualify
  • 1981 : did not qualify
  • 1983 : did not qualify
 
  • 1985 : did not qualify
  • 1987 : did not qualify
  • 1989 : did not qualify
  • 1991 : did not qualify
  • 1993 : did not qualify
  • 1995 : did not qualify
 
  • 1997 : did not qualify
  • 1999 : did not qualify
  • 2002 : 6th
  • 2006 : did not qualify

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