{"id":8235,"date":"2021-08-10T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/?p=50000002810"},"modified":"2021-08-10T18:13:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T01:13:53","slug":"westsides-boys-girls-club-welcomes-teqball-an-emerging-soccer-like-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/westsides-boys-girls-club-welcomes-teqball-an-emerging-soccer-like-sport","title":{"rendered":"Westside&#8217;s Boys &#038; Girls Club welcomes Teqball, an emerging, soccer-like sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Teqball USA, Boys &amp; Girls Club of Long Beach unveils new Teqball table\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DMf0603Hs0U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Youth on Tuesday headed, chested, kneed and kicked a soccer ball at each other at the Boys &amp; Girls Club of Long Beach&#8217;s Westside center\u2014but all on a curved, ping-pong-looking table.<\/p>\n<p>They were playing Teqball, an emerging new sport, and the sports group\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/usateqball\/?hl=en\">Teqball USA<\/a> donated a new teqball table for the club, offering youth a new sport to use to stay active and build community. Professional teqball athletes even demoed the sport to the youth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is my first time playing teqball,&#8221; said 12-year-old Shawn Melvin. &#8220;It&#8217;s really fun, and it can really grow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ajay Nwosu, President of the USA National Teqball Federation and CEO Teqball USA, who discovered the sport, said he hopes to see leagues emerge, starting in the Long Beach area.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach is the second city in the county to receive a donated teqball table, the first one having gone to a club in Culver City, according to organizers. Teqball USA pledged to donate a total of 200 tables over the next year to communities and major cities across the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were playing Teqball, an emerging new sport, and the sports group\u00a0Teqball USA donated a new teqball table for the club, offering youth a new sport to use to stay active and build community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":17227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2698],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2685],"class_list":["post-8235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-teqball","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8235"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=8235"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}