Former Brazilian basketball world champion Ruth de Souza dies of COVID-19

De Souza had been admitted since the end of last month to a hospital in Tres Lagoas, a city in the interior of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul where she was born in 1968.

The Brazilian, who played her entire career as a forward, was in recent times the coach of the sport to which she dedicated her life and in which she ended her career as a player in 1994, when she was a member of the Spanish University of Ferrol.

That same year, in Australia, De Souza was part of the Brazilian team that won the Women’s Basketball World Cup and with which she had already participated in the Olympic Games in Barcelona (1992) and in the Pan American Games in Havana (1991). , among other tournaments.

“Thank you, thank you, eternally thank you,” the Brazilian Basketball Confederation published on its social networks, which expressed the “pain” of lovers of that sport for the death of whom he described as a “warrior” and owner of “the most beautiful smile “.