Ruperto Herrera Tabio
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| Born | December 6, 1949 undrafted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Shooting guard / small forward | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1964–1982 | Industriales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Habana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FIBA Hall of Fame as player | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ruperto Herrera Tabio (born December 6, 1949, in
Club career
Herrera was a nine-time champion of the top-tier level Cuban league, in the years 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, and 1975.
National team career
Herrera was a long-time member of the senior men's
FIBA World Cups, playing at Yugoslavia 1970, and Puerto Rico 1974
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With Cuba, he won the bronze medal at the 1971 Pan American Games. He also won the bronze medal at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games, which were held in Munich, West Germany.
References
External links
- FIBA Hall of Fame profile
- FIBA.com profile (archive)
- Ruperto Herrera at databaseOlympics.com at the Wayback Machine (archived February 16, 2007)
- Ruperto Herrera at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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