{"id":163744,"date":"2021-08-30T07:27:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T11:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=163744"},"modified":"2021-08-31T11:13:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T15:13:32","slug":"dr-defeats-brazil-will-play-in-u-17-basketball-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/08\/30\/dr-defeats-brazil-will-play-in-u-17-basketball-world-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"DR defeats Brazil; will play in U-17 Basketball World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/RD-vs-Brasil-Basketball-Youtube.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/RD-vs-Brasil-Basketball-Youtube.png 600w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/RD-vs-Brasil-Basketball-Youtube-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The private-sector-backed effort to build the Dominican Republic into a future basketball powerhouse are showing fruit. On Friday, 28 August 2021, the DR defeated Brazil to win a slot in the FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup that will take place in Spain. The DR team played Brazil in Xalapa, Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U-16 national team defeated Brazil 74-66 to advance to the semifinal round of the FIBA U-16 Championship of the Americas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While losing at the end, the DR team again impressed fans with a 74-76 loss to Argentina that advanced to the tournament&#8217;s finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La Nucia and Alicante, Spain are the host cities for the 16-team U-17 World Championship to be held in 2022 at a date yet to be announced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the story in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e7BeKwTwBGw\">DR vs Brazil <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A7VnQEYLUM4\">DR vs Argentina game <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/dominicana-derrota-a-brasil-y-obtiene-boleto-al-campeonato-mundial-u-17-en-espana\/\">El Dia <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/el-deporte\/2021\/08\/28\/685785\/dominicana-clasifica-al-campeonato-mundial-sub-17-en-espana\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 August 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The private-sector-backed effort to build the Dominican Republic into a future basketball powerhouse are showing fruit. On Friday, 28 August 2021, the DR defeated Brazil to win a slot in the FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup that will take place in Spain. The DR team played Brazil in Xalapa, Mexico. The U-16 national team defeated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/08\/30\/dr-defeats-brazil-will-play-in-u-17-basketball-world-championship\/\" 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":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163744"}],"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=163744"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163876,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163744\/revisions\/163876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}