{"id":862194,"date":"2026-08-20T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862194\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:28:09","slug":"fc-porto-start-preparations-for-new-basketball-season-at-dragao-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862194\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Porto start preparations for new basketball season at Drag\u00e3o Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FC <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/porto-13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Porto<\/a> began preparations for the new basketball season this Thursday, with the first training session taking place at the Drag\u00e3o Arena. Fernando S\u00e1 had nine players from the national championship-winning squad at his disposal and also called up four youth academy players to work with the first team.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel Queiroz and Vlad Voytso, both Portugal internationals, as well as Childe Dund\u00e3o, the Angolan signing for this season, are currently on international duty with their respective national teams and have not yet joined training. Francisco Faria, Jo\u00e3o Cunha, Francisco Leite and David Giesta were the academy players promoted to train with the senior team.<\/p>\n<p>The start of preparations was preceded by the usual medical examinations and fitness tests, carried out by the blue-and-white players at the Drag\u00e3o Clinic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Porto began preparations for the new basketball season this Thursday, with the first training session taking place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-862194","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\/862194","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=862194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}