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4 unusual facts about Brazil national basketball team


Augusto César Lima

Augusto Lima participated in the national team that won the runner-up of 2011 FIBA Americas Championship in Mar del Plata, Argentina, which ranked Brazil for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Great-Britain.

Brazil national basketball team

Its basketball squad participated in the first official basketball tournament at the Summer Olympics 1936 in Berlín.

Leila Sobral

Leila Sobral (born November 22, 1974 in São Paulo) is a female basketball player from Brazil, who won the silver medal with the women's national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia (1996).

Lula Ferreira

Aluísio ("Lula") Elias Ferreira Xavier (born January 2, 1951 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian basketball coach, who guided the men's national team at the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan.



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