{"id":113957,"date":"2026-03-16T18:22:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dominicans-switch-sides-venezuela-the-new-support-after-elimination\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:22:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:22:50","slug":"dominicans-switch-sides-venezuela-the-new-support-after-elimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/dominicans-switch-sides-venezuela-the-new-support-after-elimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominicans switch sides: Venezuela, the new support after elimination"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 Following the recent defeat of the Dominican Republic&#8217;s team against the United States in the World Baseball Classic, fans have expressed diverse opinions on whom they will support for the remainder of the tournament.\n\nIn a survey conducted in different parts of the capital, several fans expressed their support for the Venezuelan national team. They argue that the championship should be won by a Latin American team.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>May Venezuela win. If it were up to me, I am not Venezuelan, but I am not American either. They beat us and now I will support them.<\/p><cite>Marcos Jim\u00e9nez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nOther Dominicans shared this opinion, expressing their wish for Venezuela to achieve victory in their next match against Italy.\n\n&#8220;Hopefully Venezuela wins to get back at them for what they did to us&#8230; now they have to beat Italy,&#8221; commented another fan.\n\nHowever, not all Dominican fans share the same stance. Some, despite their team&#8217;s elimination, have declared their support for the United States, highlighting the strength and competitiveness of their team.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I&#8217;m going to the United States because those people know about that.<\/p><cite>Citizen consulted<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThis Monday, Italy and Venezuela will face each other in a crucial match that will determine which of the two teams will advance to the final of the World Baseball Classic to face the United States.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 Following the recent defeat of the Dominican Republic&#8217;s team against the United States in the World Baseball Classic, fans have expressed diverse opinions on whom they will support for the remainder of the tournament. In a survey conducted in different parts of the capital, several fans expressed their support for the Venezuelan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[1271,641,2182,5529],"class_list":{"0":"post-113957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-venezuela","11":"tag-world-classic"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113957","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=113957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}