Rodrigo Mascarenhas
No. 9 – Benfica | |||||||||||
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Position | Forward | ||||||||||
League | Portuguese Basketball League | ||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||
Born | Rotterdam, Netherlands | March 24, 1980||||||||||
Nationality | Cape Verdean / Portuguese | ||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | ||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||
NBA draft | 2002 / Undrafted | ||||||||||
Playing career | 1999–present | ||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||
2003–2004 | Ginásio | ||||||||||
2004–2007 | FC Porto | ||||||||||
2007–2008 | Primero de Agosto | ||||||||||
2008–2010 | ASA | ||||||||||
2010–present | Benfica | ||||||||||
Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||
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Rodrigo Mascarenhas (born March 24, 1980) is a Cape Verdean-Portuguese basketball player for Benfica. Standing at 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m), he plays as forward.
Professional career[]
Mascarenhas played professional basketball in Portugal with F.C. Porto.[1] He then joined countryman Marques Houtman on Angolan side Primero de Agosto at the 2007-08 season [2] and then played for another Angolan team, ASA.
National team career[]
Mascarenhas currently is the captain of the Cape Verde national basketball team. At the 2007 FIBA Africa Championship, after leading the Cape Verdeans to a surprise third-place finish in the tournament.[3] he was named to the All-Tournament team.
References[]
Categories:
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Cape Verdean men's basketball players
- C.D. Primeiro de Agosto men's basketball players
- FC Porto basketball players
- S.L. Benfica basketball players
- Cape Verdean expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
- Cape Verdean expatriate sportspeople in Angola
- Expatriate basketball people in Portugal
- Expatriate basketball people in Angola
- Power forwards (basketball)
- Small forwards
- Sportspeople from Rotterdam
- Portuguese men's basketball players
- Atlético Sport Aviação basketball players
- Ginásio C.F. basketball players
- African basketball biography stubs
- Cape Verdean sportspeople stubs