{"id":104032,"date":"2026-01-18T04:59:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/inefi-celebrates-28th-anniversary-with-mass-rodriguez-mella-highlights-achievements\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T04:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:59:48","slug":"inefi-celebrates-28th-anniversary-with-mass-rodriguez-mella-highlights-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/inefi-celebrates-28th-anniversary-with-mass-rodriguez-mella-highlights-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"INEFI Celebrates 28th Anniversary with Mass: Rodr\u00edguez Mella Highlights Achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo \u2013 The National Institute of Physical Education (INEFI) commemorated its 28th anniversary with a mass, as part of the institution’s annual activities.\n\nThe ceremony was led by the CEO, Alberto Rodr\u00edguez Mella, who expressed his gratitude to God and the collaborators for the achievements made during his tenure.\n\nThe Eucharist, officiated by Father Andr\u00e9s Tapia de la Rosa in the Cristo Salvador parish, in the Honduras sector, served as a setting for Rodr\u00edguez Mella to highlight the alignment of INEFI’s work with the government’s vision of President Luis Abinader, focused on education, youth, and integral development.\n\n

The institutional effort is framed within the government’s vision of President Luis Abinader, who has placed education, youth, and the integral development of our people as national priorities<\/p>Alberto Rodr\u00edguez Mella<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nRodr\u00edguez Mella also acknowledged the effort of technicians, teachers and collaborators, as well as the physical education community nationwide.\n\nThe CEO highlighted that INEFI has responsibly taken on the challenge of strengthening physical education and school sports as tools for social transformation.\n\n

We firmly believe that sport not only shapes athletes, but also better citizens: young people with values, discipline, respect and a sense of belonging<\/p>Alberto Rodr\u00edguez Mella<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nAdditionally, Rodr\u00edguez Mella attributed the progress to a focus on teamwork, planning, and public service.\n\nIn the mass were present various civil and military authorities, including the deputy director general of INEFI, Elvis Duarte; the advisor C\u00e9sar Ruiz; the president of Centro Caribe Sports and member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Luis\u00edn Mej\u00eda Oviedo; the director of Sports of the National Police, general Jacobo Mateo Moquete, and the pilot colonel Osvaldo P\u00e9rez F\u00e9lix, of the Dominican Republic Air Force (FARD).\n\nAlso in attendance were the technical director of INEFI, Eddy Gonz\u00e1lez; the former director of INEFI, Esteban P\u00e9rez Polanco; Professor Nelson Ram\u00edrez; the president of the Dominican Federation of Professional Baseball Players, Napole\u00f3n Calzado, as well as sports leaders, athletes and immortals of Dominican sports.\n\n\n

History of INEFI<\/h2>\n\n\nThe National Institute of Physical Education (INEFI) was created by Law No. 33-98, of January 16, 1998, as a decentralized body of the Dominican Education System, attached to the then Secretariat of State for Education (SEE), replacing the former General Directorate of School Physical Education.\n\nThe history of INEFI dates back to 1912, when the first Physical Education teachers were appointed. In 1929, the Dominican government appointed the first general director of Physical Education and Sports.\n\nIn 1959, the General Directorate of School Physical Education was created, dependent on the Secretariat of State for Education and Fine Arts, with the aim of promoting, organizing and supervising the practice of physical education in the country’s schools, as well as the construction and maintenance of school sports facilities.\n\nIn 1975, the General Directorate of School Physical Education became part of the Secretariat of State for Sports, Physical Education and Recreation. However, in 1978, it was integrated again into the Secretariat of State for Education, Fine Arts and Cults.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo \u2013 The National Institute of Physical Education (INEFI) commemorated its 28th anniversary with a mass, as part of the institution’s annual activities. The ceremony was led by the CEO, Alberto Rodr\u00edguez Mella, who expressed his gratitude to God and the collaborators for the achievements made during his tenure. The Eucharist, officiated by Father […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[8387,1652,4668,1651],"class_list":{"0":"post-104032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-anniversary","9":"tag-inefi","10":"tag-physical-education","11":"tag-sport"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}