Luis Cequeira is an Argentine

Argentina

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 professional basketball player. He plays point guard

Point guard

Point guard , also called the play maker or "the ball-handler", is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position – essentially, he is expected to run the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that...

 professionally for Argentinian side Obras Sanitarias

Obras Sanitarias

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 and is also a member of the Argentine national basketball team

Argentina national basketball team

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.

Pro career

Cequeira began his professional career in the Argentine League

Liga Nacional de Básquetbol

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 with Quilmes Mar del Plata

Quilmes Mar del Plata

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 during the 2001-02 season. He has since competed on four other teams while spending his career in the Argentine league. In the 2006–07 season, he helped Boca Juniors

Boca Juniors

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 win the league title while being named League Sixth Man of the Year. Cequeira has competed in the Liga Sudamericana

Liga Sudamericana

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, the top international competition for South American basketball clubs, on three different occasions - 2006, 2008, and 2009.

After spending the 2009–10 season with Juventud Sionista

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, Cequeira signed a one-year deal with fellow Argentine side Obras Sanitarias

Obras Sanitarias

Club Atlético Obras Sanitarias de la Nación is a sports club located in Buenos Aires, Argentina....

 on May 19, 2010.

Argentine national team

Cequeira is also a member of the senior men's Argentine national basketball team. He made his debut with the senior Argentine national team in 2007 at the 2007 Pan American Games

Basketball at the 2007 Pan American Games

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. He later participated at the 2008 and 2010 South American Championship

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, helping the team to a gold medal in 2008 and a silver medal in 2010.

In 2010, Cequeira was named to Argentina's 2010 FIBA World Championship

2010 FIBA World Championship

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 squad – his first major international tournament – when long-time point guard Juan Pablo Cantero

Juan Pablo Cantero

Juan Pablo Cantero is an Argentine-Italian professional basketball player.-Pro career:In 2007-08, Cantero averaged 11.2 points and 3.2 assists per game with Juventud Sionista of the Argentine League...

withdrew with a torn hamstring.