Filipe Abraão

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.

Filipe Abraão
Personal information
Born(1979-12-31)31 December 1979
Luanda, Angola
Died9 January 2019(2019-01-09) (aged 39)
NationalityAngolan
Listed height194 cm (6.36 ft)
Listed weight88 kg (194 lb)
PositionSmall forward
Career history
2002–2008ASA
2009–2013Primeiro de Agosto
2014–presentRecreativo do Libolo

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


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