Valdelício Macanga Maia Joaquim, nicknamed Vander, (born April 15, 1990), is an Angolan basketball player for Interclube. Valdelício, a 6 ft 9 in (2.09 m) tall

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, has competed for the Angola national team at the

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. From 2009 to 2013, Vander played college basketball for the USU Eastern and the

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. Afterwards, Vander played the majority of his professional career in his native Angola, for various teams including Petro de Luanda,

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and Interclube. He also had short stints in Argentina and France.

BAL career statistics

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