{"id":109271,"date":"2026-02-20T05:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/abadina-inaugurates-u19-youth-basketball-tournament-with-special-dedication\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T05:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:02:22","slug":"abadina-inaugurates-u19-youth-basketball-tournament-with-special-dedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/abadina-inaugurates-u19-youth-basketball-tournament-with-special-dedication\/","title":{"rendered":"Abadina Inaugurates U19 Youth 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 begin its first tournament of the year this Saturday. The competition, focused on the U19 youth category, will be held in the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s divisions.\n\nThe chosen setting for the inauguration is the sports center of the Ensanche Luper\u00f3n club. The protocol ceremony is scheduled for 4:00 in the afternoon.\n\nThis tournament will feature the participation of 28 male and six female 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 office in July 2024. His management focuses on promoting inclusive policies, entrepreneurship, and the integral development of 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\nEdwin Castillo (Tatico), president of Abadina, highlighted the importance of the dedication to Minister Valdez Matos. In addition, he highlighted 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 divided 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\n\n<p>In the women&#8217;s division, the participating clubs are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Mauricio B\u00e1ez<\/li><li>La Ci\u00e9nega<\/li><li>San Carlos<\/li><li>Rafael Barias<\/li><li>San L\u00e1zaro<\/li><li>Ensanche Luper\u00f3n<\/li><\/ul>\n\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 begin its first tournament of the year this Saturday. The competition, focused on the U19 youth category, will be held in the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s divisions. The chosen setting for the inauguration is the sports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[8357,389,941,11892],"class_list":{"0":"post-109271","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-tournament","11":"tag-u19"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109271","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=109271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}