{"id":143846,"date":"2026-08-21T19:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/abadina-celebrates-63rd-anniversary-with-u14-basketball-tournament-2\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T19:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:37:32","slug":"abadina-celebrates-63rd-anniversary-with-u14-basketball-tournament-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/abadina-celebrates-63rd-anniversary-with-u14-basketball-tournament-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Abadina celebrates 63rd anniversary with U14 basketball tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abadina announces U14 tournament with 40 teams to celebrate its 63rd anniversary<\/h2>\n\n<p>The National District Basketball Association (Abadina) has made official the celebration of its upcoming U14 category tournament, in both the male and female divisions. This sporting event will bring together a total of 40 teams, consolidating itself as a central piece of the commemorative agenda for the institution&#8217;s 63rd anniversary.<\/p>\n\n<p>The announcement was made by the entity&#8217;s president, Edwin Castillo (Tatico), who emphasized the value of fostering basketball from the formative categories. The tournament is designed specifically for athletes between 13 and 14 years old, promoting the development of young talent throughout the National District.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inauguration details<\/h3>\n\n<p>The opening ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, September 5th at 4:00 in the afternoon. The event will take place at an iconic spot for local basketball: the front plaza of the Palacio de los Deportes, now known as Arena BanReservas, specifically in front of the bust of Don Virgilio Travieso Soto, located at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">This event not only celebrates our history since that September 4, 1963, but also reaffirms our commitment to the future of Dominican basketball through the development of new talent.<\/p>\n<cite>Edwin Castillo (Tatico), president of Abadina<\/cite>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Acknowledgments and dedication<\/h3>\n\n<p>For this edition, Abadina has decided to dedicate the tournament to the National Youth Basketball Teams Project, an initiative led by the Dominican Basketball Federation (Fedombal) under the management of engineer Rafael Uribe.<\/p>\n\n<p>The operational and technical part of the tournament has a high-level structure, highlighting the executive coordination of key figures in national sports development:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Jos\u00e9 -Ma\u00edta- Mercedes, Immortal of Dominican Sports.<\/li><li>Melvyn L\u00f3pez, renowned strategist.<\/li><li>A technical team composed of prominent national coaches.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>With this tournament, Abadina seeks to continue its six-decade legacy, promoting discipline and healthy competitiveness among the young athletes of the capital.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abadina announces U14 tournament with 40 teams to celebrate its 63rd anniversary The National District Basketball Association (Abadina) has made official the celebration of its upcoming U14 category tournament, in both the male and female divisions. This sporting event will bring together a total of 40 teams, consolidating itself as a central piece of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[8357,389,1446,14067],"class_list":{"0":"post-143846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-abadina","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-santo-domingo","11":"tag-u14"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143846","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=143846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}