{"id":63354,"date":"2024-05-25T16:42:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T16:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice"},"modified":"2024-05-25T16:59:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T16:59:48","slug":"ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice","title":{"rendered":"NCAA basketball player in Angola to encourage practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Angola. <\/strong><\/span><b>Angolan Priscilla Varela, a winger who plays in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), for Idaho State, a basketball team from the United States of America, is in Angola to encourage the women&#8217;s sport.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Priscila Varela is the first Angolan player to sign for Idaho State University in the 1st division of the main women&#8217;s university basketball championship (NCAA Division I Women&#8217;s Basketball).<\/p>\n<p>On her agenda, according to a family source, the basketball player will meet with the Minister of Youth and Sports, Rui Falca\u0303o, with the vice-president of the Angolan Basketball Federation, Si\u0301lvio Lemos, with government entities and civil society in the province of Cabinda, his homeland.<\/p>\n<p>Priscila, 19 years old, is the first Angolan to serve in the NCAA and will participate with her brother, Carlos Varela, who plays at the College (university basketball), in social and mass activities for the practice of basketball, in the provinces of Luanda and Cabinda, according to the family source.<\/p>\n<p>The National Collegiate Athletic Association is an association made up of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organize the majority of college sports programs in the United States. Its headquarters are located in Indianapolis, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\">Angola<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Angola. Angolan Priscilla Varela, a winger who plays in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), for Idaho State, a basketball team from the United States of America, is in Angola to encourage the women&#8217;s sport. Priscila Varela is the first Angolan player to sign for Idaho State University in the 1st division of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":63352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[233,337,329],"class_list":["post-63354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-angola","tag-angola"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NCAA basketball player in Angola to encourage practice - Angola<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Angolan Priscilla Varela, a winger who plays in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), for Idaho State, ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NCAA basketball player in Angola to encourage practice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Angolan Priscilla Varela, a winger who plays in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), for Idaho State, ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Angola\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-05-25T16:42:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-25T16:59:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2024\/05\/sm_1716643607.570242.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1067\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"686\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"NCAA basketball player in Angola to encourage practice\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-05-25T16:42:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-25T16:59:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice\"},\"wordCount\":217,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2024\/05\/sm_1716643607.570242.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Angola\",\"Angola\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice\",\"name\":\"NCAA basketball player in Angola to encourage practice - Angola\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2024\/05\/sm_1716643607.570242.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-05-25T16:42:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-25T16:59:48+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Angolan Priscilla Varela, a winger who plays in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), for Idaho State, ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2024\/05\/sm_1716643607.570242.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2024\/05\/sm_1716643607.570242.jpg\",\"width\":1067,\"height\":686,\"caption\":\"NCAA basketball player in Angola to encourage practice\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"NCAA basketball player in Angola to encourage practice\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/\",\"name\":\"Angola\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"NCAA basketball player in Angola to encourage practice - Angola","description":"Angolan Priscilla Varela, a winger who plays in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), for Idaho State, ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"NCAA basketball player in Angola to encourage practice","og_description":"Angolan Priscilla Varela, a winger who plays in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), for Idaho State, ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice","og_site_name":"Angola","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2024-05-25T16:42:05+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-05-25T16:59:48+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1067,"height":686,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2024\/05\/sm_1716643607.570242.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"NCAA basketball player in Angola to encourage practice","datePublished":"2024-05-25T16:42:05+00:00","dateModified":"2024-05-25T16:59:48+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice"},"wordCount":217,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2024\/05\/sm_1716643607.570242.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Angola","Angola"],"articleSection":["all news","sport"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice","name":"NCAA basketball player in Angola to encourage practice - Angola","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2024\/05\/sm_1716643607.570242.jpg","datePublished":"2024-05-25T16:42:05+00:00","dateModified":"2024-05-25T16:59:48+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Angolan Priscilla Varela, a winger who plays in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), for Idaho State, ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2024\/05\/sm_1716643607.570242.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/angola\/sites\/65\/2024\/05\/sm_1716643607.570242.jpg","width":1067,"height":686,"caption":"NCAA basketball player in Angola to encourage practice"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/ncaa-basketball-player-in-angola-to-encourage-practice#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"NCAA basketball player in Angola to encourage practice"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/","name":"Angola","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}