<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba once owned the World Cup, winning 11 straight events in which it participated from 1976-2005. But in 2007 and 2009, Cuba lost to the United States in the Cup finals, mostly because the Cubans have failed to develop a new national-team ace to replace the defected Jose Contreras. In fact, Cuba's wins in international play have come with much less regularity in recent years.
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