{"id":137466,"date":"2020-03-09T14:11:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T14:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=137466"},"modified":"2020-03-10T03:22:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T03:22:28","slug":"dr-team-almost-makes-it-to-the-u-20-world-championship-in-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/09\/dr-team-almost-makes-it-to-the-u-20-world-championship-in-soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"DR team almost makes it to the U-20 world championship in soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Concacaf-logo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131895\" width=\"285\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Concacaf-logo.png 570w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Concacaf-logo-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican under-20 women\u2019s soccer team surprised everyone when last week it defeated Jamaica 2-1 in the quarterfinals to make the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) Women\u2019s U-20 Championship final tour and earn the right to play Team USA in the semifinal in front of home fans. This was the highest-ever finish for a Dominican team in a Concacaf tournament. The win against Jamaica meant the Dominicans would play a rematch against the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But on Saturday, 7 March 2020, the Dominican team lost to Team USA, missing out on the opportunity to play in the 2020FIFA Under-20 Women\u2019s World Cup in Costa Rica and Panama, as well as a spot in the tournament final. The DR had defeated the USA in a first match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team USA didn\u2019t give an inch. It defeated the upstart Dominican team 6-0 in the semifinal that was played at the soccer field at the Felix Sanchez Olympic Stadium at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center in Santo Domingo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team USA next faced Mexico on Sunday, 8 March for the finals, to win the championship against Mexico, 4-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussoccer.com\/stories\/2020\/03\/us-u20-womens-national-team-6-dominican-republic-0-2020-concacaf-womens-u20-championship\">US Soccer<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soccerwire.com\/news\/u-20-uswnt-routs-dominican-republic-to-secure-fifa-world-cup-berth\/\">Soccer Wire<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussoccer.com\/stories\/2020\/03\/usa-rolls-past-mexico-4-1-to-win-2020-concacaf-womens-u20-championship\">US Soccer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 March 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican under-20 women\u2019s soccer team surprised everyone when last week it defeated Jamaica 2-1 in the quarterfinals to make the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) Women\u2019s U-20 Championship final tour and earn the right to play Team USA in the semifinal in front of home fans. This was the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/09\/dr-team-almost-makes-it-to-the-u-20-world-championship-in-soccer\/\" 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":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137466"}],"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=137466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137530,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137466\/revisions\/137530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}