{"id":26107,"date":"2006-07-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/casspi-mekel-shine-in-european-junior-championship\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:18:50","slug":"casspi-mekel-shine-in-european-junior-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/casspi-mekel-shine-in-european-junior-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Casspi &#038; Mekel shine in European Junior Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                               In spite of the 79-76 win over Germany, the Israeli team will not play in the quarter finals of the European Junior (u.18) Championship in Greece. Israel, Italy &#038; Bulgaria have all the same record (2-1) but Israel is eliminated on goal difference. First team player Omri Casspi, scored 33 pts, pulled down 7 rbds &#038; made 3 steals. Maccabi Junior team captain Gal Mekel had 23 pts, 5 rbds, 4 asts &#038; 3 stls. After the first stage Casspi is the team\u2019s top scorer with 58 pts ahead of Mekel 56. The next two are also Maccabi TA players: Sean Daniel 29 &#038; Anton Shoutvin 19 pts.  Israel\u2019s next game will be played on Saturday (16:45) vs Slovenia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scored 33 &#038; 23 pts in the win over Germany and will play for 9-16 places in the tournament played in Greece<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-26107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493812,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26107\/revisions\/493812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26107"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=26107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}