{"id":165644,"date":"2026-09-26T17:17:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T21:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/army-launches-erd-sports-training-program-with-immortal-athletes\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T17:17:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T21:17:32","slug":"army-launches-erd-sports-training-program-with-immortal-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/army-launches-erd-sports-training-program-with-immortal-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Army launches ERD Sports Training program with immortal athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dominican Republic Army launches sports program for children of its members<\/h2>\n\n<p>With the purpose of strengthening discipline, values, and family unity within the military community, the Association of Army Officers&#8217; Wives of the Dominican Republic (ADEOERD), led by Staly Garc\u00eda de Arias, in conjunction with the Army Commanding General, Major General Jimmy Arias Grull\u00f3n, launched the ERD Sports Training program.<\/p>\n\n<p>This project is consolidated as an inclusive and permanent initiative, designed to provide social well-being to the children of the institution&#8217;s members. The program starts with a capacity for 315 children and adolescents, whose ages range between 6 and 14 years old, organized into three formative categories.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A project backed by sports stars<\/h3>\n\n<p>The launch was attended by prominent figures from national and international sports, who have joined as mentors for the project. Among the athletes supporting this initiative are:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Juana Arrendel, Wanda Rijo and Jos\u00e9 Vicbart Geraldino (Sports Immortals).<\/li><li>Rubel Salom\u00f3n Jos\u00e9, Ubaldo Cabrera and Francisco Cordero Monta\u00f1o (Major League Baseball players).<\/li><li>Mar\u00eda Garc\u00eda C\u00e1ceres (Olympic judoka).<\/li><li>Brayelin Mart\u00ednez and Gaila Gonz\u00e1lez (Queens of the Caribbean).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Comprehensive training and Olympic disciplines<\/h3>\n\n<p>Participants will be supervised by a specialized technical staff, consisting of 8 coaches and 6 assistants. The youth will be able to develop their skills in seven sports disciplines, including baseball, basketball, volleyball, swimming, chess, athletics, and soccer, using the institution&#8217;s facilities from Monday to Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The essence of ERD Sports Training lies in the Saturday Talks, where high-performance athletes will share their life experiences, promoting values, violence prevention, and the responsible use of technology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p>This effort, driven by the vision of the Army&#8217;s board of directors, seeks to turn athletic success into a life tool, thus forging the new generation of Dominican citizens with a solid foundation of integrity and social commitment.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican Republic Army launches sports program for children of its members With the purpose of strengthening discipline, values, and family unity within the military community, the Association of Army Officers&#8217; Wives of the Dominican Republic (ADEOERD), led by Staly Garc\u00eda de Arias, in conjunction with the Army Commanding General, Major General Jimmy Arias Grull\u00f3n, launched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[12915,1651,2596,9430],"class_list":{"0":"post-165644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-army","9":"tag-sport","10":"tag-training","11":"tag-values"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165644","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=165644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}