{"id":95434,"date":"2025-12-12T19:38:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/monegro-honored-by-fedombal-at-national-minibasketball-gathering-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:38:16","slug":"monegro-honored-by-fedombal-at-national-minibasketball-gathering-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/monegro-honored-by-fedombal-at-national-minibasketball-gathering-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Monegro Honored by Fedombal at National Minibasketball Gathering 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTO DOMINGO, RD \u2013 Journalist Jos\u00e9 P. Monegro, director of the newspaper, was honored this Friday during the inauguration of the 2025 National Minibasketball Convivium, an event dedicated to him and which brings together the 12 best teams in the country.\n\nThe ceremonial ceremony took place at the Horacio Muratore National Minibasketball House, located in the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center. It was presided over by engineer Rafael Uribe, president of the Dominican Basketball Federation (Fedombal), along with the Immortal of Sport and Vice Minister of Sports, Fernando Teruel, who also chairs the National Minibasket Commission.\n\nThe recognition was presented to Monegro by Uribe and Teruel, accompanied by Alberto Rodr\u00edguez, executive director of the National Institute of Physical Education (INEFI); Andr\u00e9s Vanderhorts, former Secretary of Sports; and Junior P\u00e1ez, vice president of Fedombal. Also present were the Immortals of Sport Evaristo P\u00e9rez, as well as Fausto Paulino and Luis Minier, presidents of the basketball associations of San Pedro de Macor\u00eds and Montecristi, respectively.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Athletes, enjoy your event during these three days of activity \u2014from the 12th to the 14th of this month\u2014, play, have fun and make friends, many of them for life.<\/p><cite>Jos\u00e9 Monegro<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>In thanking the dedication of the Convivio, Monegro expressed his gratitude to the organizers, leaders, and athletes of national minibasketball.<\/p>\n\nJos\u00e9 Monegro, who is a former president of the Basketball Association of the National District (Abadina), significantly boosted the development of mini-basketball during his tenure. He currently chairs the Organizing Committee of the Santo Domingo 2026 Central American and Caribbean Games.\n\nDuring the event, Rafael Uribe, Fernando Teruel, and Alberto Rodr\u00edguez agreed in highlighting that mini-basketball, for ages 11 and 12, is the foundation for the future of Dominican basketball and the formation of better citizens.\n\nUribe reported that from this Convivio, 25 children will be selected to be part of the National Teams Project of Formative Categories, from which the future U15, U17, U19 selections and the senior national team will emerge.\n\nThe sports oath was taken by the boy Eli\u00e1n Benet Aracena, representative of the National District.\n\nAll games of the 2025 National Minibasketball Convivio will be broadcast simultaneously on YouTube, from the three available courts, through the official Fedombal TV channel.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Division by groups<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Group A:<\/strong> Santiago, Distrito Nacional, La Vega, Duverg\u00e9 (Independencia), San Crist\u00f3bal and San Pedro de Macor\u00eds.<\/li><li><strong>Group B:<\/strong> Moca (Espaillat), Puerto Plata, San Juan, Santo Domingo Province, El Seibo and Barahona.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO, RD \u2013 Journalist Jos\u00e9 P. Monegro, director of the newspaper, was honored this Friday during the inauguration of the 2025 National Minibasketball Convivium, an event dedicated to him and which brings together the 12 best teams in the country. The ceremonial ceremony took place at the Horacio Muratore National Minibasketball House, located in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[3287,11057,11058,1446],"class_list":{"0":"post-95434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-fedombal","9":"tag-jose-monegro","10":"tag-mini-basketball","11":"tag-santo-domingo"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95434","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=95434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}