Omar Abada ( ar, عمر عبادة, born 20 April 1993) is a Tunisian professional

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player who plays for Al Wahda Damascus of the Syrian Basketball League. Abada also plays for the

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. Born in

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, he started his career in 2010 with Étoile de Radès where he stayed for eight seasons. In 2018, Abada played a year in France for

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. A year later, he returned to Tunisia to play for US Monastir. With Tunisia, he has won the AfroBasket tournament in

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and

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, while being named to the All-Tournament Team in 2021.

Professional career

Abada started his career with Étoile de Radès in the Tunisian

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and helped the team win two national championships. In the 2017 FIBA Africa Champions Cup he was named to the All-Star Team. In the 2018–19 season, Abada played one season in France for

of the

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, the national second tier. In 2019, he returned to Tunisia to play for US Monastir. He played in the inaugural season of the

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(BAL) with Monastir and helped his team reach the

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. After the tournament, he was named to the

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. On January 16, 2022, Abada was announced by

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to be on the roster for the 2022 FIBA Intercontinental Cup. However, he never joined the team or played in any game. In April 2022, Abada joined the Syrian club Al Wahda Damascus of the Syrian Basketball League.

National team career

Abada has represented Tunisia's national basketball team at the 2015 FIBA Africa Championship in

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, Tunisia. There, he recorded his team's best two point field goal percentage.2015 FIBA Africa Championship – Omar Abada's profile
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and

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, he won gold.

BAL career statistics

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Awards and accomplishments

Club

;US Monastir *2×

: (2020, 2021) *2×

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: (2020, 2021) ;ES Radès *2×

: (2020, 2021) *2×

: (2017, 2018)

Individual

: (

) *2×

Final MVP: (2020, 2021) * FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup All-Star Team: (

) *3×

Best Guard: (2017, 2018, 2020) *

Best Tunisian Player: (2017)

References

External links

Afrobasket.com ProfileOmar Abada Afrobasket 2015 HD - Youtube.com Video
{{DEFAULTSORT:Abada, Omar 1993 births Living people 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup players Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Tunisia Mediterranean Games medalists in basketball Point guards Saint-Chamond Basket players Sportspeople from Tunis Tunisian expatriate basketball people in France Tunisian men's basketball players US Monastir basketball players Al Wahda men's basketball players Al-Ittihad Jeddah basketball players ES Radès basketball players