Higinio Vélez
# Higinio Vélez

Higinio Vélez Carrión (July 27, 1947 – May 12, 2021) was a Cuban baseball manager.

## Biography

After leading Santiago de Cuba to three straight championships in the Cuban National Series (1999–2001), he became the manager of the Cuba national baseball team, that would take home a gold medal from the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Velez died from COVID-19 on 12 May 2021, at age 73, in Havana during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba.

