Filipe Abraão Explained

Filipe Abraão
Position:Small forward
Height:194cm (76inches)
Weight:88kg (194lb)
League:BIC Basket
Nationality:Angolan
Birth Date:31 December 1979
Birth Place:Luanda, Angola
Years1:2002–2008
Team1:ASA
Years2:2009–2013
Team2:Primeiro de Agosto
Years3:2014–2015
Team3:Recreativo do Libolo

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]

Notes and References

  1. https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120801162741/http://libya2009.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/09/fafcm/player/p/eid/4047/pid/79010/sid/6599/tid/235/profile.html Player Profile
  2. News: Adolfo Graciano Quimbamba profile, FIBA Africa Championship for Men 2009 FIBA.COM. FIBA.COM. 2017-07-27.
  3. News: Former basketball player Filipe Abraão dies . ANGOP Angolan News Agency . 10 Jan 2019.