Félix Emilio Chapman Piñeiro (born October 5, 1996) is a Cuban
volleyball
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player. He was part of the
Cuban men's national volleyball team at the
2014 FIVB World Championship in Poland.
Defection
Along with
Inovel Romero, he
defected
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to the United States after they won the bronze medal in the
2015 NORCECA Champions Cup in Detroit, Michigan, and asked for
political asylum
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.
Clubs
* Mayabeque (2014)
References
External links
Volleybox.net Profile
1996 births
Living people
Defecting sportspeople from Cuba
Cuban men's volleyball players
Place of birth missing (living people)
Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Cuba
Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in volleyball
21st-century Cuban sportsmen
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