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Cuban basketball player Leydis Oquendo dies in El Salvador CubaNet

MADRID, Spain.- Cuban basketball player Leydis Oquendo died at the age of 40 due to “a postoperative complication in El Salvador,” the official reported on Wednesday. JIT.

As specified Swing Completo, Oquendo had been operated on for a fibroma, but the postoperative process brought multiple complications and the unfortunate outcome was pulmonary thrombosis.

The sports media spoke with the basketball specialist Lázaro Sierra Betanzos and with the coach Rainel Panfet.

Leydis Oquendo, a native of Florida, Camagüey, was hired in the professional basketball league in El Salvador, where she recently finished as the top scorer in the local tournament.

Oquendo arrived in El Salvador in 2017, as part of the Santa Tecla club squad, belonging to the women’s basketball league of that Central American country.

Its performance with the team from San Salvador ratified her as one of the undisputed stars of this competition”, he pointed out Swing Completo.

For more than 16 years he was part of the national pre-selections. With the Cuba Team he competed in the World Cups in Brazil 2006 and Turkey 2014.

He also won the Central American and Caribbean games twice and the Centrobasquet tournament five times (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012).

He also stood out in the leagues of Argentina and the Dominican Republic.

After the news of his death was announced, the president of the Cuban Basketball Federation, Dalia Henry, said: “We are dismayed by his physical disappearance, it is a heavy blow to the basketball family and Cuban sports in general. We are very sorry for the loss of him. Please extend our deepest condolences to your family and friends.”

Family, friends, fans of this sport and Salvadoran teams have expressed their shock at the sudden death of the athlete.

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