One month to WBSC U-15 Baseball World Cup 2016 in Iwaki, Japan
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The III U-15 Baseball World Cup will open on 29 July in Iwaki, Japan. Twelve nations, including world’s Nos. 1-7, will send their best players (born 2001 – 2003) to Iwaki to battle For the Title of World Champion. The Cuban National Team will head to Iwaki as baseball’s defending U-15 world champions.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The WBSC U-15 Baseball World Cup is set to open in approximately one month, on Friday the 29th of July in Iwaki, Japan. Twelve nations, including world’s Nos. 1-7, will send their best players (born 2001 – 2003) to Iwaki to battle For the Title of World Champion. The Cuban National Team will head to Iwaki as baseball’s defending U-15 world title holders, having won U-15 Baseball World Cup 2014 in Mazatlan, Mexico.
Building excitement ahead of Opening Day, the host nation and the city of Iwaki have been carrying out several promotional and educational activities to connect with the community, such as visiting schools with the official mascot and providing special baseball lessons by Yoshitaka Katori, the Samurai Japan U-15 National Team manager and former Nippon Professional Baseball/Yomiuri Giants star pitcher/coach.
The III U-15 youth world championship is set to build off the unprecedented success of last year’s U-18 Baseball World Cup in Osaka, Japan, and U-12 Baseball World Cup in Tainan, Taiwan. The finale of U-18 Baseball World Cup 2015 generated a massive online media buzz, top TV ratings and an attendance of 15,000 while the finale of U-12 Baseball World Cup 2015 sold out the 11,000-seat Tainan Municipal Stadium.
The winning nation of U-15 Baseball World Cup 2016 will be awarded 440 world ranking points.
The broadcast/live-stream schedule will be announced in an upcoming news release. Follow @WBSC and subscribe to youtube.com/wbsc for all #U15WorldCup coverage.
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