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Filipe Abraão

Filipe Abraão

Angolan basketball player (1979–2019)

Filipe Abraão (31 December 1979 – 9 January 2019) was an Angolan basketball player. He was a 194 cm (6'4") in height and weighs 88 kg (194 pounds) and played as a small forward.

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Abraão also represented the Angolan senior team for the first time at the FIBA Africa Championship 2009.[1] He saw action in five games off the bench for the Angolans, who won their seventh consecutive FIBA Africa Championship and qualified for the 2010 FIBA World Championship.[2]

He last played for Recreativo do Libolo at the Angolan major basketball league BIC Basket.

Abraão died on 9 January 2019 of an undisclosed disease.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Player Profile FIBA.com
  2. [2]
    "Adolfo Graciano Quimbamba profile, FIBA Africa Championship for Men 2009 | FIBA.COM". FIBA.COM. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  3. [3]
    "Former basketball player Filipe Abraão dies". ANGOP Angolan News Agency. Retrieved 10 January 2019.


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