Miguel Angel Masjuán Salmón

Sports journalist specializing in sports since the beginning of the 1970s. From an early age he was inclined toward sports practice and was also an athlete, sports trainer, sports director and physical education teacher. In 1966 he was part of the Cerro Pelado Delegation to the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as Fencing Commissioner.

Native of Ciudad de La Habana. From an early age he was inclined toward sports practice. His vocation for physical exercise was defined from the moment he was born, his father Miguel Ángel Masjuán, pioneer of Physical Education in Cuba, basketball and soccer player, his mother, Mimí Salmón, first Cuban woman in the Hall of Fame in the discipline of basketball.

During the time of the Intercollegiate Athletic Federation of Cuba, between private schools he participated in the 15 and 18 years categories in various sports such as baseball and basketball and ran 400 meters with the Candler Teams and for Arturo Montori.

He studied Physical Education at the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation, which since 1950 was located in the current Martí park. There as part of the program he had to practice all modalities and specialized in swimming.

He graduated with the top honors and was an assistant to the swimming coach of the Olympic Team "Carlos de Cubas".

In 1956 he moved to Camagüey to the Tennis Club to work in Swimming with the female gender, winning three national championships.

In January 1959 he worked as assistant to the general manager of the Almendares Baseball Club, one of the teams of the Cuban Professional Baseball League. He served professional baseball players from the United States as he was fluent in English. He was also a lifeguard at the Habana Riviera Hotel, of which he was a founder.

In 1960 he became Director of Sports Academies until February 23, 1961 when INDER was created, of which he was a founder.

He held other positions, such as director of Physical Culture and Technical Sub-director of the ESPA and the EIDE. Later he was a professor of Political Sciences at the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation "Manuel Fajardo".

In 1966 he was part of the Cerro Pelado Delegation to the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico as Fencing Commissioner.

He participated as a pinch hitter in the Winnipeg Pan American Games in 1967. He fulfilled the mission of directing a National Baseball Series and on another occasion served chess player Bobby Fischer at the Pre-Olympic competition held in Mexico in 1967.

He started as a journalist in 1970, he was at the Manuel Fajardo Faculty of Physical Culture, working as a professor and sub-director, he was sent to the Central Habana Libre, where with other colleagues he had to help in the construction of the lodges. There he met Julio Fernández, who was an experienced journalist, who urged him to write.

He decided on journalism specializing in sports due to Cuba's performance at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Panama in 1970, that same year he began working in the LPV Magazine and Deporte Derecho del Pueblo. In 1975 he began his degree in Journalism at the University of La Habana, already working in that capacity at Bohemia Magazine. Bachelor of Journalism and winner of awards in journalism competitions.

He is author of the books, Cuba its rings of glory; Pipián, the king of the roads; Sport and its history, and Personalities of sport in Cuba.

He died on January 17, 2016 in La Habana, Cuba, at the age of 84.