Valdelício Macanga Maia Joaquim, nicknamed Vander, (born April 15, 1990), is an Angolan basketball player for
Interclube. Valdelício, a 6 ft 9 in (2.09 m) tall
center
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, has competed for the
Angola national team at the
AfroBasket
The AfroBasket (alternatively known as the FIBA Africa Championship, FIBA African Championship, or FIBA AfroBasket) is the men's basketball continental championship contested by the senior national teams of Africa
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in
2011
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and
2013
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2013 was designated as:
*International Year of Water Cooperation
*International Year of Quinoa
Events
January
* January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
.
From 2009 to 2013, Vander played college basketball for the
USU Eastern and the
Hawaii Rainbow Warriors
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. Afterwards, Vander played the majority of his professional career in his native Angola, for various teams including
Petro de Luanda,
Primeiro de Agosto
Clube Desportivo 1º de Agosto is a multisports club from Luanda, Angola. The club, founded 1 August 1977, is attached to the Angolan armed forces, which is its sponsor. Its main team competes in men's football, and its professional basketball t ...
and
Interclube. He also had short stints in Argentina and France.
BAL career statistics
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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 ...
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Petro de Luanda
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2022
The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
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Petro de Luanda
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References
External links
Hawaii Athletics profileRealGM profile7M profileWarriors 2013 Roster
1990 births
Living people
2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup players
2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup players
Angolan expatriate basketball people in Argentina
Angolan expatriate basketball people in France
Angolan expatriate basketball people in the United States
Angolan men's basketball players
STB Le Havre players
Atlético Petróleos de Luanda basketball players
C.R.D. Libolo basketball players
Centers (basketball)
Hawaii Rainbow Warriors basketball players
Obras Sanitarias basketball players
Basketball players from Luanda
UJAP Quimper 29 players
Utah State Eastern Golden Eagles men's basketball players
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G.D. Interclube men's basketball players