Cuban Football by Gabriel Uchida

Cuban Football by Gabriel Uchida

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Cuban Football by Gabriel Uchida
Cuban Football by Gabriel UchidaBaseball is the national sport of Cuba. It’s a nation where the term ‘La Pelota’ or ‘the ball’ refers to only one kind—the kind beaten away with a stick and caught with a mitt. But in the background, despite a smaller...
Cuban Football by Gabriel UchidaBaseball is the national sport of Cuba. It’s a nation where the term ‘La Pelota’ or ‘the ball’ refers to only one kind—the kind beaten away with a stick and caught with a mitt. But in the background, despite a smaller...
Cuban Football by Gabriel UchidaBaseball is the national sport of Cuba. It’s a nation where the term ‘La Pelota’ or ‘the ball’ refers to only one kind—the kind beaten away with a stick and caught with a mitt. But in the background, despite a smaller...
Cuban Football by Gabriel UchidaBaseball is the national sport of Cuba. It’s a nation where the term ‘La Pelota’ or ‘the ball’ refers to only one kind—the kind beaten away with a stick and caught with a mitt. But in the background, despite a smaller...
Cuban Football by Gabriel UchidaBaseball is the national sport of Cuba. It’s a nation where the term ‘La Pelota’ or ‘the ball’ refers to only one kind—the kind beaten away with a stick and caught with a mitt. But in the background, despite a smaller...
Cuban Football by Gabriel UchidaBaseball is the national sport of Cuba. It’s a nation where the term ‘La Pelota’ or ‘the ball’ refers to only one kind—the kind beaten away with a stick and caught with a mitt. But in the background, despite a smaller...
Cuban Football by Gabriel UchidaBaseball is the national sport of Cuba. It’s a nation where the term ‘La Pelota’ or ‘the ball’ refers to only one kind—the kind beaten away with a stick and caught with a mitt. But in the background, despite a smaller...
Cuban Football by Gabriel UchidaBaseball is the national sport of Cuba. It’s a nation where the term ‘La Pelota’ or ‘the ball’ refers to only one kind—the kind beaten away with a stick and caught with a mitt. But in the background, despite a smaller...
Cuban Football by Gabriel UchidaBaseball is the national sport of Cuba. It’s a nation where the term ‘La Pelota’ or ‘the ball’ refers to only one kind—the kind beaten away with a stick and caught with a mitt. But in the background, despite a smaller...
Cuban Football by Gabriel UchidaBaseball is the national sport of Cuba. It’s a nation where the term ‘La Pelota’ or ‘the ball’ refers to only one kind—the kind beaten away with a stick and caught with a mitt. But in the background, despite a smaller...

Cuban Football by Gabriel Uchida

Baseball is the national sport of Cuba. It’s a nation where the term ‘La Pelota’ or ‘the ball’ refers to only one kind—the kind beaten away with a stick and caught with a mitt.

But in the background, despite a smaller following, limited infrastructure, and the rather uncommon problem of defecting national team stars, there is football—living and breathing in the streets, on rough pitches in mostly empty stadiums, and on the grainy television screens at bars.

Brazilian photographer Gabriel Uchida took a trip to Cuba and came back with a remarkable series of photos that unmask and celebrate the nation’s unique football culture.

View the feature on SoccerBible here.