Filipe Abraão (31 December 1979 – 9 January 2019) was an

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n basketball player. He was a in height and weighs and played as a

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. Abraão also represented the

n senior team for the first time at the

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. He saw action in five games off the bench for the Angolans, who won their seventh consecutive

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and qualified for the

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. He last played for Recreativo do Libolo at the

n major basketball league

BIC Basket The Angolan Men's Basketball League, (in Portuguese: ''Campeonato Nacional de Basquetebol em Séniores Masculinos''), for sponsorship reasons known as the Unitel Basket, is the top tier men's basketball league in Angola. C.D. Primeiro de Agosto ( ...

. Abraão died on 9 January 2019 of an undisclosed disease.

References

1979 births 2019 deaths Basketball players from Luanda Angolan men's basketball players 21st-century Angolan sportsmen Small forwards Atlético Sport Aviação basketball players Place of death missing C.D. Primeiro de Agosto men's basketball players C.R.D. Libolo basketball players {{Angola-basketball-bio-stub