{"id":240285,"date":"2025-08-18T06:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T10:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=240285"},"modified":"2025-08-18T08:19:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:19:59","slug":"dominican-republic-plays-puerto-rico-to-prepare-for-americas-cup-in-nicaragua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/08\/18\/dominican-republic-plays-puerto-rico-to-prepare-for-americas-cup-in-nicaragua\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic plays Puerto Rico to prepare for Americas Cup in Nicaragua"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AmeriCup-equipo-dominicano-El-Dia-1024x751.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-240343\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AmeriCup-equipo-dominicano-El-Dia-1024x751.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AmeriCup-equipo-dominicano-El-Dia-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AmeriCup-equipo-dominicano-El-Dia-768x563.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AmeriCup-equipo-dominicano-El-Dia-1536x1126.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AmeriCup-equipo-dominicano-El-Dia.png 1858w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As a final preparation for the Americas Basketball Cup, the Dominican Republic played Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The AmeriCup 2025 will be held 22 to 31 August in Managua, Nicaragua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DR team is coached by Argentinean N\u00e9stor \u201cChe\u201d Garc\u00eda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DR is in Group C and will start the group phase playing against Nicaragua, Argentina and Colombia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group B teams are Panama, Venezuela, Canada and Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group A teams are USA, Brazil, Uruguay and Bahamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DR\u2019s first AmeriCup game will be against Colombia on 22 August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/en\/events\/fiba-americup-2025\">FIBA <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/en\/events\/fiba-americup-2025\/news\/young-stars-on-the-rise-ahead-of-fiba-americup-2025\">FIBA <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/delgado-y-feliz-optimistas-con-participacion-de-rd-en-americup-2025\/\">El Dia <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 August 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a final preparation for the Americas Basketball Cup, the Dominican Republic played Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The AmeriCup 2025 will be held 22 to 31 August in Managua, Nicaragua. The DR team is coached by Argentinean N\u00e9stor \u201cChe\u201d Garc\u00eda. The DR is in Group C and will start the group phase &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/08\/18\/dominican-republic-plays-puerto-rico-to-prepare-for-americas-cup-in-nicaragua\/\" 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":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240285"}],"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=240285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240344,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240285\/revisions\/240344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}