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Mathieu Faye

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Mathieu Faye is a Senegalese former basketball player, born in Dakar in July 1958 and attached to the Jeanne d'Arc club of that city. He played for Senegal at the 1980 Summer Olympics, where he scored 57 points in six games and his team finished eleventh. He later played in France and won the 1983 Korać Cup with CSP Limoges. In June 2021 he was enshrined in the FIBA Basketball Hall of Fame. Reference works disagree on his exact birth day, giving either 24 or 27 July, and Olympedia lists 27 July.

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1958 1
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Male 1
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    Born 27 July 1958
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    Sex Male
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