Filipe Abraão
Appearance
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Born | Luanda, Angola | 31 December 1979||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 9 January 2019 | (aged 39)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Angolan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listed height | 194 cm (6.36 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 88 kg (194 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Small forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2002–2008 | ASA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2009–2013 | Primeiro de Agosto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Recreativo do Libolo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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
[edit]- ^ Player Profile FIBA.com
- ^ "Adolfo Graciano Quimbamba profile, FIBA Africa Championship for Men 2009 | FIBA.COM". FIBA.COM. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
- ^ "Former basketball player Filipe Abraão dies". ANGOP Angolan News Agency. Retrieved 10 January 2019.