Spring RestTemplate: How to send URL and query parameters of the restful service

I was facing an issue with how to send the Query parameters to the restful Webservices.

My URL was like this, to find out the teams from African Continent

I want to invoke this web service from Spring Boot using Rest Template.

I was getting the below error when sending it along with the URL using the getForObject method,

The code
Error

I fixed this by using the UriComponentsBuilder, code is in this link