{"id":38631,"date":"2025-09-23T09:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/charlie-villanueva-nba-legend-to-the-dominican-republic-sports-hall-of-fame\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:22:20","slug":"charlie-villanueva-nba-legend-to-the-dominican-republic-sports-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/charlie-villanueva-nba-legend-to-the-dominican-republic-sports-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Villanueva, NBA legend, to the Dominican Republic Sports Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 Dominican-American basketball player Charlie Villanueva&#8217;s legacy will be honored with his induction into the Dominican Sports Hall of Fame.\n\nVillanueva, born on August 24, 1984 in Queens, New York, to Dominican parents, will be inducted on Sunday, November 16, during the 59th Induction Ceremony, which will take place in the auditorium of the Hall of Fame of the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center.\n\nThe announcement was made by Dr. Dionisio Guzm\u00e1n, president of the Permanent Committee, who explained that this is the eighth election of the Class of 2025, the result of the votes of the Veterans Committee and national sports reporters through an electronic system.\n\nVillanueva, who had a distinguished career in the NBA for more than a decade, was also a key figure in the national basketball team.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Highlighted Achievements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He participated in one of the most successful eras of the national team.<\/li><li>He contributed to obtaining two international medals: one silver and one bronze.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nVillanueva joins a prestigious list of honorees that includes figures such as Jos\u00e9 Reyes, Edwin Encarnaci\u00f3n, and Jos\u00e9 Offerman, among other outstanding athletes and sports promoters.\n\nDr. Guzm\u00e1n highlighted that those selected will be immortalized &#8220;for their sporting achievements and for their exemplary citizen careers.&#8221; The ceremony will be led by Guzm\u00e1n, along with the Honorary President, businessman Manuel Estrella, and the secretary of the Hall, Rafael Damir\u00f3n.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 Dominican-American basketball player Charlie Villanueva&#8217;s legacy will be honored with his induction into the Dominican Sports Hall of Fame. Villanueva, born on August 24, 1984 in Queens, New York, to Dominican parents, will be inducted on Sunday, November 16, during the 59th Induction Ceremony, which will take place in the auditorium of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[389,9106,477,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-38631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-charlie-villanueva","10":"tag-hall-of-fame","11":"tag-nba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38631","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=38631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}