Diosdado Mendizábal Mifumu (born 21 October 1997), known as Ricky Mendizábal, is a

basketball player Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's ...

who plays as a

power forward The power forward (PF), also known as the four, is one of the five traditional Basketball positions, positions in a regulation basketball game. Traditionally, power forwards have played a role similar to center (basketball), centers and are typi ...

for

Liga EBA The Tercera FEB, formerly known as Liga EBA (''Liga Española de Baloncesto Aficionado''), is a Spanish basketball championship that is the fourth tier level in the Spanish basketball league system, after the Liga ACB, Primera FEB and Segunda FEB ...

club CB Virgen de la Concha. Born in Spain, he plays for the Equatorial Guinea national team.

Early life

Mendizábal was born in Zumarraga and is of Equatorial Guinean descent.

Club career

Mendizábal is a

Saski Baskonia Club Deportivo Saski-Baskonia, Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, S.A.D commonly known as Saski Baskonia () and also simply as Baskonia, is a professional basketball team based in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB and the EuroLea ...

product. After four youth seasons there, he moved to Ointxe! Arrasateko SKE, where he made his

debut.

International career

Mendizábal has played for the

Equatorial Guinea national basketball team The Equatorial Guinea national basketball team is the national basketball team from Equatorial Guinea. It has yet to appear at the FIBA World Championship or the FIBA Africa Championship. The team was originally set to take part in the AfroBaske ...

in January 2020 at the

AfroBasket 2021 qualification The AfroBasket 2021 qualification was a basketball competition that was played from January 2020 to July 2021, to determine the fifteen FIBA Africa nations who would join the automatically qualified host Rwanda at the AfroBasket 2021 final tourn ...

( pre-qualifiers group C).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mendizabal, Ricky 1997 births Living people Equatoguinean men's basketball players Power forwards Centers (basketball) Spanish men's basketball players Basketball players from Gipuzkoa Spanish sportspeople of Equatoguinean descent Club Ourense Baloncesto players Araberri BC players People from Goierri 21st-century Spanish sportsmen 21st-century Equatoguinean sportsmen