{"id":707001,"date":"2026-05-31T21:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/707001\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T21:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:35:08","slug":"fc-porto-under-16s-crowned-three-time-national-basketball-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/707001\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Porto under-16s crowned three-time national basketball champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FC Porto\u2019s under-16 basketball team became three-time national champions after completely dominating the final stage held this weekend in Santo Tirso.<\/p>\n<p>The Dragons won all three games, against CD Pa\u00e7o de Arcos (69-51), Galitos de Aveiro (89-49) and Sporting (66-59), thereby securing the national title for the third consecutive year.<\/p>\n<p>On an individual level, Dinis Leal and <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/joao-cunha-287768\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jo\u00e3o Cunha<\/a> were named to the Final Stage Best Five, with the latter also being awarded the competition\u2019s MVP (Most Valuable Player).<\/p>\n<p>This under-16 title adds to the one won by the under-18s last week, but the Club\u2019s youth basketball journey may not end there in 2025\/26, as the under-14s will play their respective final stage in Albufeira next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Porto\u2019s under-16 basketball team became three-time national champions after completely dominating the final stage held this weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-707001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}