Luanda - The Angolan Basketball Federation (FAB) on Tuesday, in Luanda Province, announced 24 players for the senior men's national team, with a view to the Pre-Olympic Tournament, to be held from 2 to 7 July in Valencia, Spain.
The Spanish coach Pep Clarós has Aníbal Moreira, Miguel Lutonda and Carlos Coute as his assistants.
The competition is qualifier for this year's Olympic Games taking place in Paris, France.
Below are the called up players:
Childe Dundão (Petro de Luanda), Elcane Paca (1º de Agosto), Eduardo Simão (Petro B), Tedoyame Simão (Sporting Clube de Braga de Portugal), Dimitri Maconda (LWD Basket Netherlands), Aginaldo Neto (NBA-Africa Academy) e German - Ali Obama (Alginet (Espanha) are the point guards.
The shooting guards are Gerson Gonçalves (Petro de Luanda ) e Shelton Miguel (South Florida Bulls (NCA-USA)
Eduardo Francisco (Sport Lisboa e Benfica de Portugal), Jerónimo Luís (Tartiere Auto Gijón Baske da Espanha), Milton Valente (Maia Basket de Portugal), Wilson Ambrósio (Interclube), Paulo Bala (Zentro Basket de Portugal), Jonatão Ndjungu (Interclube) e Wheza Panzo (Iona NCAA USA), are the small forward players.
The power forward players are João Fernandes (UD Oliveira de Portugal), Bruno Fernando (Atlanta Hawks - NBA), Sílvio de Sousa (Aris Salónica da Grécia), Abou-bakar Gaku (Petro de Luanda), Jilson Bango (Basketball Lowen Braunschweig da Alemanha), Kevin Kokila (JL Bourg-en-Bresse de França), Teotónio Dó (Petro de Luanda) e Macaxi Braz (1º de Agosto).
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