Jimmy Djimrabaye (born April 8, 1992) is a Central African professional

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player for

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. During his career, he has played in France for several teams in the

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and

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. He also played in Africa, when in 2008, he played for Red Star Ndongo in the qualification games for the

2008 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup The 2008 FIBA Africa Basketball Club Championship (23rd edition), was an international basketball tournament held in Sousse and Hammam, Tunisia, from December 12 to 21, 2008. The tournament, organized by FIBA Africa, and hosted by Étoile Sporti ...

. Fourteen years later, in 2022, Djimrabaye played with

in the Road to BAL 2023.

National team career

Djimrabaye represents

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in international competition. He competed for the national Under-18 team in the 2008 FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship. Djimrabaye competed with the senior team for his country at the

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tournaments of

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

and

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

. Their best results were the 6th place in 2009 and 2011.

References

External links

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