{"id":3427,"date":"2009-07-13T18:34:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T01:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3427"},"modified":"2009-07-13T18:47:19","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T01:47:19","slug":"ris-mens-softball-team-heads-to-canada-despite-financial-constraints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3427","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian men&#8217;s softball team heads to Canada despite financial constraints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2009\/07\/13\/ri039s-men039s-softball-team-heads-canada-despite-financial-constraints.html\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/jakartapost_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Agnes Winarti<br \/>\nThe Jakarta Post<br \/>\nJakarta\t<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite not being fully ready financially, the Indonesian senior men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s softball team ensures their participation in the World Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Softball Championship in Saskatoon , Saskatchewan , Canada , in order to maintain the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s image.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have collected fund from the local softball community to cover the contingent\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s airfare. We are 80 to 90 percent ready, financially, to depart to Canada ,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d chairman of the Indonesian Baseball and Softball Association (PERBASASI) Gugun Yudinar told The Jakarta Post on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>PERBASASI requires around Rp 900 million (US$81,818) to cover the expenses of sending the softball men&#8217;s team to Saskatoon. <\/p>\n<p>A contingent of 17 players and six officials will depart Wednesday for the July 17-26 world championship.  The country secured a place in the event for the first time, after finishing third in the 2006 Asian Championships in Japan behind the hosts and runner-up the Philippines . <\/p>\n<p>If Indonesia is absent from the event, Gugun said, the Asian region would be given a penalty by losing a place in the next championship. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153That happened once to Africa . Thus, we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to disgrace our country,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Gugun. <\/p>\n<p>He hoped for the additional financial assistance previously promised by the State Ministry for Youth Affairs and Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia will have its first pitch against Puerto Rico on July 17. Due to merely two weeks of training preparation, Gugun is no longer aiming for a place in the top 10 teams as he previously hoped for. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The realistic target is getting the experience to play there,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Gugun said.<\/p>\n<p>The world championship is participated by 16 countries, divided into two groups. The Indonesian team is in Group B with Australia , Czech Republic, Argentina , Venezuela, South Africa , Puerto Rico, and Canada , while Group A consists of Cuba, Denmark, New Zealand, USA, Botswana, Great Britain , Japan, and Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agnes Winarti The Jakarta Post Jakarta Despite not being fully ready financially, the Indonesian senior men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s softball team ensures their participation in the World Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Softball Championship in Saskatoon , Saskatchewan , Canada , in order to maintain the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s image. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have collected fund from the local softball community to cover the contingent\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s airfare. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}