{"id":84358,"date":"2025-11-21T20:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T00:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/byron-matias-son-of-alofoke-heading-to-mexico-with-the-dominican-republic-u-17-team\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T20:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T00:02:19","slug":"byron-matias-son-of-alofoke-heading-to-mexico-with-the-dominican-republic-u-17-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/byron-matias-son-of-alofoke-heading-to-mexico-with-the-dominican-republic-u-17-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron Mat\u00edas, son of Alofoke, heading to Mexico with the Dominican Republic U-17 team"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Byron Mat\u00edas will represent the Dominican Republic in the U-17 tournament in Mexico<\/h2>\n<p>The young soccer player Byron Mat\u00edas, son of Santiago Mat\u00edas, a well-known producer and businessman, is preparing for an important challenge. This Sunday, Mat\u00edas will travel to Puebla, Mexico, to participate in the U-17 Four Nations Tournament, where he will represent the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>At just 16 years old, Byron takes on this commitment as a crucial step in his sporting career. His arrival from Europe and his recent incorporation into one of the most outstanding training processes in the country demonstrate his talent and dedication.<\/p>\n<p>Ready to proudly represent the flag.\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea\u26bd\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>In the tournament, the Dominican Republic U-17 team will face Mexico, Costa Rica, and Canada. This event represents an opportunity to evaluate the progress of Dominican youth soccer.<\/p>\n<p>Dominican soccer has shown notable progress in recent years, especially in youth categories. The U-17 team has had outstanding participations in Concacaf tournaments, which reflects the strengthening of the development system of the Dominican Football Federation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byron Mat\u00edas will represent the Dominican Republic in the U-17 tournament in Mexico The young soccer player Byron Mat\u00edas, son of Santiago Mat\u00edas, a well-known producer and businessman, is preparing for an important challenge. This Sunday, Mat\u00edas will travel to Puebla, Mexico, to participate in the U-17 Four Nations Tournament, where he will represent the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[1271,2123,1183,10455],"class_list":{"0":"post-84358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-mexico","11":"tag-u-17"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84358","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=84358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}