{"id":506927,"date":"2026-05-07T21:16:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/cibao-fc-and-pantoja-close-the-ldf-semifinals-on-sunday\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:16:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:16:27","slug":"cibao-fc-and-pantoja-close-the-ldf-semifinals-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/football\/cibao-fc-and-pantoja-close-the-ldf-semifinals-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Cibao FC and Pantoja close the LDF semifinals on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTIAGO.<\/strong>– Cibao FC and Club Atl\u00e9tico Pantoja will close this Sunday the semifinals of the Dominican Football League, when they face each other at 6:00 in the afternoon in the second leg match, at the stadium of the Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica Madre y Maestra, within the tournament dedicated to the memory of doctor Jos\u00e9 Rafael Abinader.\n\n\n

You may be interested in<\/strong>:Shakira will perform the official anthem of the 2026 World Cup<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nRegardless of the outcome, the stage is set for the grand final, which will pit the winner of the series between Cibao FC and Pantoja against the victor of the match between Salcedo FC and Delfines del Este, which will be decided beforehand on Saturday.\n\nThe orange eleven arrives at the commitment with an advantage in the qualifier, after winning 0-1 in the first leg, played at the home of the so-called “Warriors”.\n\nThe troop led by Junior Scheldeur has managed to defeat Pantoja in their last two visits to the Panamericano stadium, a venue where the capital team had been invincible.\n\nThe current champions will advance to the final with a victory or a draw against the team led by Adolfo Monsalve.\n\n\n

In the event that Pantoja wins by one goal, the series will be tied and two 15-minute overtime periods will be played. If the tie persists during the extra half hour, the qualifier will be decided from the penalty spot, with an initial round of five shots per team.<\/p>\n\n\nCibao FC will be seeking its eighth appearance in an LDF final, while Pantoja will try to reach its fifth final series.\n\nIn the other semifinal, which will be decided on Saturday, Delfines del Este will seek to advance to their second final, while Salcedo FC, debuting in this instance, will have the opportunity to reach the decisive stretch of the championship for the first time.\n\nCibao FC will have Miguel Lloyd and Edwin \u201cGato\u201d Fr\u00edas as options to protect the orange goal, while Pantoja has Alessandro Baroni as its main figure under the goalposts.\n\nThe top scorer for Cibao FC is Colombian Rivaldo Correa, who has 11 goals this season and 32 in his career in the LDF, all wearing the orange uniform.\n\n\u00c1ngel P\u00e9rez follows, with 10 goals, while Edwarlyn Reyes, author of six goals, will be out for this match after accumulating two yellow cards in last Saturday’s match in the capital.\n\nJulio C\u00e9sar Murillo, Wilman Modesta, and Cesar\u00edn Ortiz each scored four goals. Javier Roces, Walter Acu\u00f1a, Yunior Peralta, Juli\u00e1n G\u00f3mez, and Leonardo Villalba have two, while Jean Carlos L\u00f3pez, Gabriel Peguero, Gonzalo Alarc\u00f3n, Eli\u00e1n L\u00f3pez, Omar De la Cruz, and Kleimar Mosquera have each scored one.\n\nBy Pantoja, Luka Bertrand leads the offense with 14 goals, followed by Carlos Sarante, with eight, and Luis Espinal, with six. Alexander Vidal and Gerard Lavergne add four goals each; Yordy \u00c1lvarez and Yeremy B\u00e1ez have three; Edison Guerrero registers two, and Alejandro Rodr\u00edguez has one.\n\n\n

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SANTIAGO.– Cibao FC and Club Atl\u00e9tico Pantoja will close this Sunday the semifinals of the Dominican Football League, when they face each other at 6:00 in the afternoon in the second leg match, at the stadium of the Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica Madre y Maestra, within the tournament dedicated to the memory of doctor Jos\u00e9 Rafael […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":506928,"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":[40943],"tags":[611,41186,40230],"class_list":["post-506927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-deultimominuto","tag-theperiodicodelatruth","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-27Sf","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Foto-El-Gato-Frias.jpg","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":["Football"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Foto-El-Gato-Frias.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506927","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=506927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}