{"id":205909,"date":"2026-03-30T14:49:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=205909"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:49:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:49:31","slug":"another-serbian-child-at-the-final-four-andela-dugalic-among-the-best-in-the-great-victory-of-ucla-she-will-fight-for-the-all-american-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/another-serbian-child-at-the-final-four-andela-dugalic-among-the-best-in-the-great-victory-of-ucla-she-will-fight-for-the-all-american-title\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER SERBIAN CHILD AT THE FINAL FOUR! An\u0111ela Dugali\u0107 among the best in the great victory of UCLA, she will fight for the All-American title!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>A day after Andrej Stojakovi\u0107, another great hope of Serbian basketball qualified with her university for the final tournament of the best American student teams.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Serbian national team player and gold medal winner at the European Championship, An\u0111ela Dugali\u0107, with her UCLA defeated the great rival Duke today 70:58 and will fight next weekend for the All-American title in Phoenix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An\u0111ela was great even though she started the match from the bench, scoring 15 points with an excellent shooting percentage (13-7), adding to that another 6 rebounds and 4 assists, and alongside Lauren Betts (23p, 10reb) was the heroine of the team from California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UCLA started the match poorly, losing, and then Dugali\u0107 came off the bench and turned the tide of the encounter, controlled the rebounding and defense, scored when it mattered most, and distributed several passes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An\u0111ela was born in America, in a suburb of Chicago (Des Plaines) in a family of Serbian immigrants, but from an early age she expressed a desire to wear the jersey of the Serbian national team, which was followed by a call from coach Marina Maljkovi\u0107 and gold at the 2021 European Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/Andjela-Dugalic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-205910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/Andjela-Dugalic.jpg 533w, https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/Andjela-Dugalic-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Serbian Times editorial office congratulates An\u0111ela Dugali\u0107 and Andrej Stojakovi\u0107 on qualifying for the Final Four and wishes them to celebrate the NCAA league titles next weekend!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Author: <\/strong>Antonije Kova\u010devi\u0107 <strong>Photo: <\/strong>Jae C. 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(VIDEO)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/it-is-not-the-end-we-want-the-title-andrej-stojakovic-sent-a-powerful-message-after-the-historic-qualification-for-the-final-four\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>IT IS NOT THE END, WE WANT THE TITLE: Andrej Stojakovi\u0107 sent a powerful message after the historic qualification for the Final Four!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after Andrej Stojakovi\u0107, another great hope of Serbian basketball qualified with her university for the final tournament of the best American student teams. The Serbian national team player and gold medal winner at the European Championship, An\u0111ela Dugali\u0107, with her UCLA defeated the great rival Duke today 70:58 and will fight next weekend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":205911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6826,11976,11977,11978],"class_list":["post-205909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-andela-dugalic","tag-reprezentativka-srbije-andjela-dugalic","tag-srpska-kosarkasica","tag-ucla-final-four","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205975,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205909\/revisions\/205975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}