His name was Cándido Antonio Sibilio Hughes, although the history books of Spanish basketball will simply remind him of Chicho Sibilio. The former player of Barcelona and Baskonia died this Saturday in Nigua, in the south of the Dominican Republic, his country of birth. With Spain, his homeland of adoption, this lethal shooter hung the silver medal in the 1983 Eurobasket. With Barcelona, ​​the club of his life, he won five ACB titles, eight King's Cups, two Cups and one Cup Korac

The Dominican basketball federation confirmed the sad news early Saturday night. Sibilio, 60, in recent months had several health problems linked to diabetes.

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