{"id":123152,"date":"2019-02-22T09:24:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T09:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=123152"},"modified":"2019-02-22T09:45:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T09:45:07","slug":"dr-plays-venezuela-to-make-fiba-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/02\/22\/dr-plays-venezuela-to-make-fiba-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"DR plays Venezuela to make FIBA World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Palacio-de-los-Deportes-300x209.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-123180\" width=\"475\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Palacio-de-los-Deportes-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Palacio-de-los-Deportes.png 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: FIBA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, 21 February 2019 is the last chance for the Dominican Republic men\u2019s basketball team to qualify for the FIBA World Basketball Cup. The game is scheduled for 8:30pm at the Palacio de los Deportes in the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center in Santo Domingo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coach Melvyn Lopez is counting on the local fans to energize the players to accomplish the feat of defeating the better-ranked Venezuelan team. Venezuela has already qualified for the FIBA tournament. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dominican Republic team members are: V\u00edctor Liz, Sadiel Rojas, Ronald Roerts Jr., Ronald Ram\u00f3n, Rigoberto Mendoza, Juan Miguel Suero, Juan Jos\u00e9 Garc\u00eda, Juan Guerrero, Juan Coronado, Jhonatan Araujo, Gelvis Solano, Eloy Vargas. Francisco Garc\u00eda is the general manager of the team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Playing for Venezuela are: Gregory Vargas, Gregory Echenique, Jhoman Zamora, Pedro Chourio, Jos\u00e9 Vargas, Luis Bethelmy, C\u00e9sar Garc\u00eda, Hindi Graterol, Elder Gimenez, Heissler Guillent, Dwight Lewis and N\u00e9stor Comenares. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DR later plays the even more superior Team Brazil on 25 February at 8:30pm at the same venue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets to the game cost RD$450, RD$350 and RD$200. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 February 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, 21 February 2019 is the last chance for the Dominican Republic men\u2019s basketball team to qualify for the FIBA World Basketball Cup. The game is scheduled for 8:30pm at the Palacio de los Deportes in the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center in Santo Domingo. Coach Melvyn Lopez is counting on the local fans to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/02\/22\/dr-plays-venezuela-to-make-fiba-world-cup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123152"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123184,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123152\/revisions\/123184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}