{"id":152734,"date":"2026-08-30T16:35:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T20:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/ferreiras-and-baker-mazara-join-dr-for-duel-against-chile-in-the-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T16:35:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T20:35:40","slug":"ferreiras-and-baker-mazara-join-dr-for-duel-against-chile-in-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/ferreiras-and-baker-mazara-join-dr-for-duel-against-chile-in-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferreiras and Baker-Mazara join DR for duel against Chile in the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dominican Republic adjusts its roster to face Chile in search of its third consecutive victory<\/h2>\n\n<p>The Dominican men&#8217;s national basketball team is preparing for a crucial duel this Monday against Chile, as part of the fourth qualifying window for the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup. With the goal of climbing the Group E standings, the Dominican squad arrives motivated after a positive streak that they seek to maintain at home.<\/p>\n\n<p>For this matchup, the coaching staff led by manager N\u00e9stor \u201cCh\u00e9\u201d Garc\u00eda and general manager Junior P\u00e1ez has made strategic adjustments to the roster. Players Luismal Ferreiras and Chad Baker Mazara have joined the team, replacing \u00c1ngel Luis Delgado and Luis Santos, in order to strengthen the Dominican rotation.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A team on the rise<\/h3>\n\n<p>The national team arrives at this matchup with a 5-2 record, after having achieved a key victory against Brazil with a score of 94-90, where the performances of Jean Montero with 30 points and Andr\u00e9s Feliz with 24 stood out. The Dominican quintet hopes to take advantage of the momentum from their latest triumphs to reach a 6-2 mark and consolidate their path toward the World Cup event.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">The Dominican team will seek to impose its pace of play at the Arena BanReservas Profesor Virgilio Travieso Soto, taking advantage of the support of the local fans against a Chilean team that has a 2-5 record in the standings.<\/p>\n<cite>Alofoke Deportes<\/cite>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Official roster for the match<\/h3>\n\n<p>In addition to the new additions, the Dominican roster for tonight&#8217;s game includes:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jean Montero<\/li>\n<li>Andr\u00e9s Feliz<\/li>\n<li>Joel Soriano<\/li>\n<li>David Jones<\/li>\n<li>Andersson Garc\u00eda<\/li>\n<li>Juan Guerrero<\/li>\n<li>Jhery Matos<\/li>\n<li>\u00c1ngel N\u00fa\u00f1ez<\/li>\n<li>Richard Bautista<\/li>\n<li>Luis David Montero<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Match details<\/h3>\n\n<p>The matchup is scheduled for 8:10 at night. Qualification for the 2027 Qatar World Cup grants seven tickets for the American continent, distributed among the top three teams in each group and the best fourth-place finisher. Currently, the Dominican Republic is competing in Group E, a highly competitive sector that includes powerhouses like Brazil and the United States.<\/p>\n\n<p>Fans will be able to follow the match updates through the FAIA Sports broadcast, their YouTube channel, and Teleuniverso Canal 29.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican Republic adjusts its roster to face Chile in search of its third consecutive victory The Dominican men&#8217;s national basketball team is preparing for a crucial duel this Monday against Chile, as part of the fourth qualifying window for the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup. With the goal of climbing the Group E standings, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[389,1271,2589,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-152734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dominican-republic","10":"tag-qualifiers","11":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152734","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=152734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}