{"id":109027,"date":"2026-02-19T19:05:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/abadina-inaugurates-u19-basketball-tournament-with-special-dedication\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:05:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:05:29","slug":"abadina-inaugurates-u19-basketball-tournament-with-special-dedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/abadina-inaugurates-u19-basketball-tournament-with-special-dedication\/","title":{"rendered":"Abadina Inaugurates U19 Basketball Tournament with Special Dedication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abadina Launches U19 Youth Tournament with Special Dedication<\/h2>\n\n\n<strong>Santo Domingo, RD.<\/strong> The Basketball Association of the National District (Abadina) will kick off its first tournament of the year this Saturday, marking the beginning of the youth championship (U19) in the male and female categories. The venue for this exciting competition will be the sports complex of the Ensanche Luper\u00f3n club.\n\nThe opening ceremony is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. on Saturday at the mentioned facilities.\n\nThis tournament, which promises to be a sporting spectacle, will feature the participation of 28 men&#8217;s clubs and six women&#8217;s clubs. This year&#8217;s edition is dedicated to the Minister of Youth of the Dominican Republic, Carlos Jos\u00e9 Valdez Matos.\n\nCarlos Jos\u00e9 Valdez Matos, appointed by President Luis Abinader, is a civil engineer and politician who assumed his position in July 2024. His management focuses on promoting inclusive policies, entrepreneurship, and the integral development of Dominican youth.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Minister Valdez Matos is an ally of sports in the Capital city and throughout the country, in favor of children and young people.<\/p><cite>Edwin Castillo (Tatico), president of Abadina<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nEdwin Castillo (Tatico), president of Abadina, offered details about the tournament through a press release, highlighting the dedication to Minister Valdez Matos. Castillo also emphasized the participation of the 28 youth clubs (U19) in the men&#8217;s division and the six women&#8217;s teams.\n\n\n<p>The men&#8217;s teams have been distributed into four groups:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Group A:<\/strong> Ensanche Luper\u00f3n, Los Prados, Nuevo Horizontes, Orlando Mart\u00ednez, Los Gladiadores, San L\u00e1zaro and Los Pioneros.<\/li><li><strong>Group B:<\/strong> Rafael Paulino, Mauricio B\u00e1ez, Rosa Duarte, Honduras del Oeste, La Ci\u00e9naga, Bameso and Dosa.<\/li><li><strong>Group C:<\/strong> Huellas del Siglo, Rafael Le\u00f3nidas Solano, San Carlos, Mar\u00eda Auxiliadora, Reales del Caliche, Manganagua and Rafael Barias.<\/li><li><strong>Group D:<\/strong> Gregorio Luper\u00f3n, Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar, Jardines del Norte, Monta\u00f1o, Rottweiler, El Mill\u00f3n and Naco.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nIn the women&#8217;s category, the participating clubs are: Mauricio B\u00e1ez, La Ci\u00e9nega, San Carlos, Rafael Barias, San L\u00e1zaro and Ensanche Luper\u00f3n.\n\nThe championship is sponsored by the company Seaboard \u201cClean Energy\u201d and endorsed by the Dominican Basketball Federation (Fedombal).","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abadina Launches U19 Youth Tournament with Special Dedication Santo Domingo, RD. The Basketball Association of the National District (Abadina) will kick off its first tournament of the year this Saturday, marking the beginning of the youth championship (U19) in the male and female categories. The venue for this exciting competition will be the sports complex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[8357,389,3256,11892],"class_list":{"0":"post-109027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-abadina","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-clubs","11":"tag-u19"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109027","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=109027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}