Maria Paula Silva
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Born | March 11, 1962 Osvaldo Cruz, São Paulo, Brazil | (age 62)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listed height | 174 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 60 kg (132 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FIBA Hall of Fame as player | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Maria Paula Gonçalves da Silva (born March 11, 1962, in
Paula became a member of the
Career
Paula begun playing basketball at the age of ten, and in 1974, was invited to join Assis Tênis Clube. One year and a half later, the team folded and Paula went to Jundiaí to play for Colégio Divino Salvador, and a few months later, was drafted for the first time by the national team despite being only fourteen. In 1988, Paula went to play in Spain, but an injured knee and difficulties of adaptation brought her back to Brazil in 1991.
In 1979, she helped her team to a fourth place at the
In 1992, Paula helped her team qualify for the Olympic Games for the first time. Brazil finished in seventh place at the Barcelona Olympics.
In 1993, Paula went to Associação Atlética Ponte Preta, where she played along with Hortência and won the World Championship for clubs. After discussions with Hortência, Paula returned to Piracicaba.
In 1994, Paula won the women's world basketball championship in
After retirement, Paula became an entrepreneur, director of the Centro Olímpico do Ibirapuera, and worked for a while in the Brazilian Ministry of Sports. She also commented the basketball tournaments of the
See also
- Basketball in South America
References
- ^ "Paula Goncalves da Silva: Class of 2006". WBHOF. Archived from the original on 2013-07-04. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
- ^ "Depoimentos | Magic Paula". Archived from the original on 2015-05-27. Retrieved 2015-05-27.
- ^ "Magic Paula vai ser comentarista da Record · Notícia · Máquina do Esporte". Archived from the original on 2016-09-23. Retrieved 2015-05-27.
- ^ http://www.databasket.com/descricao.asp?NOME=Not%EDcia&IDMATERIA=29595 [permanent dead link]
- ^ "Magic Paula". Archived from the original on 2016-10-12. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
External links
- (in Portuguese)Official website
- (in Portuguese)Paula at the Brazilian Confederation website
- Maria Paula Silva on Twitter