{"id":475997,"date":"2025-07-23T10:58:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T14:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/costa-rica-surprises-and-sweeps-dominican-republic-in-the-debut-of-the-u21-womens-pan-american-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T10:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T14:58:18","slug":"costa-rica-surprises-and-sweeps-dominican-republic-in-the-debut-of-the-u21-womens-pan-american-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/costa-rica-surprises-and-sweeps-dominican-republic-in-the-debut-of-the-u21-womens-pan-american-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rica surprises and sweeps Dominican Republic in the debut of the U21 Women&#8217;s Pan American Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<em>Alajuela, Costa Rica \u2014 July 23, 2025<\/em>\n<br>Before a packed gymnasium and with the fervent support of their fans, the Costa Rican U21 women&#8217;s national team achieved the big surprise of the opening day by categorically defeating the Dominican Republic with partial scores of 25-19, 25-14 and 25-15 in the start of Group A of the U21 Pan American Cup, held at the Monserrat Sports Center in Alajuela.\n\nFrom the first set, the hosts set the pace of the match, taking advantage of the unforced errors of the Dominican team, which looked disconnected and erratic. The Dominican coach, Alexandre Ceccato, was forced to call a timeout early in the game to reorganize his team, without managing to reverse the situation.\n\nThe story repeated itself in the following sets. Costa Rica capitalized on a total of 30 unforced errors committed by the Dominicans, and dominated the main statistics of the match: attacks (35-25), blocks (7-4) and serves (3-1).\n\nAng\u00e9lica Rodr\u00edguez was the offensive figure of the match by contributing 14 points, including 12 in attack and 2 in blocking, while for the Dominican Republic, Virelys Shantal Rivera stood out with 12 units, also being the best blocker of the match with 4 points through that route.\n\nRodr\u00edguez expressed her emotion after the victory:<br><em>&#8220;We trained hard for this moment. I am proud of the team, of how we played together. My points are the merit of the whole group.&#8221;<\/em>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For his part, coach Ceccato acknowledged the pressure and nerves as key factors in the defeat:<br><em>&#8220;We missed too much. The team felt the pressure from the public. They are young, but they have the conditions to recover and play better.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\nThe Dominican selection will seek to redeem itself this Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. when it faces Mexico, in a key match to maintain its aspirations within the tournament.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alajuela, Costa Rica \u2014 July 23, 2025 Before a packed gymnasium and with the fervent support of their fans, the Costa Rican U21 women&#8217;s national team achieved the big surprise of the opening day by categorically defeating the Dominican Republic with partial scores of 25-19, 25-14 and 25-15 in the start of Group A of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":475998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[611,40231,41186],"class_list":["post-475997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1ZPn","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Equipo-femenino-1200x800-1.webp","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Sports"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Equipo-femenino-1200x800-1.webp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}