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Olympic basketball player
Carmelo Cabrera was a Real Madrid basketball legend, an Olympian at Munich 1972 and a EuroBasket silver medallist in 1973.
Carmelo Cabrera, born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, was one of the great Canarian basketball players of the twentieth century. A talented and competitive guard, he stood out especially at Real Madrid during a highly successful era.
He represented Spain at the Munich 1972 Olympics and won silver at EuroBasket 1973, placing him among the historical references of Spanish basketball.
Cabrera connects Gran Canaria with the national basketball elite and the Spanish team.