Aboubakar Pedro Gakou (born 27 May 1997) is an Angolan basketball player who plays for

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and the Angola national team. Standing at , he plays as power forward. Gakou started his career with Petro in 2015 and has won four national championships with the team since, while being a two-time MVP winner as well.

Professional career

Gakou started playing basketball only at age 17. A year later, in 2015, he was a prospect on the roster of

. He won his first Angolan championship in 2019. Gakou was named the league's Most Valuable Player of the 2020–21 season after winning his second championship with the team. He was forced to miss the

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after he tested positive for COVID-19, making it impossible for him to join the bubble. In the 2021–22 season, Gakou helped Petro win the national treble. He also helped his team reach the

2022 BAL Finals The 2022 BAL Finals was the championship game of the 2022 BAL season, the second season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). The final was played in the BK Arena in Kigali on 28 May 2022, between Angolan club Petro de Luanda and Tunisian club ...

, where the team lost to US Monastir. On May 27, Gakou was named to the BAL All-Defensive Team. Gakou won his fourth consecutive

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title in 2023, and was named league MVP for a second time.

National team career

Internationally, Gakou has played for the

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. He was on the roster for AfroBasket 2021.

Awards and accomplishments

Club

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: (2022, 2023) * 2× Supertaça de Angola: (2021, 2022)

Individual

* BAL All-Defensive Team: (

) *2× Angolan League MVP: (

)

BAL career statistics

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References

External links

Afrobasket profile
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