Israel Machado de Andrade (all just Israel) was born January 17, 1960. He played most of his career in Italy in the middle 80s. He played in the formation of the youth Carnavalesco Fantoche. He debuted in the Brazilian league's first team of the Carnavalesco Fantoche; has also played for Corinthians Paulista, Mount Lebanon (where he won four championships: 1982, 1984, 1985 and 1986) and Guarulhos. As usual in Italy was led by a training Leghorn (Leghorn has been a great discoverer of talent, including foreign). He was played 5 games in season 1985/86 with Libertas Leghorn (sponsor Cortan and coached by Alberto Bucci) which end of the season will win promotion from Serie A2 to A1 series as first place and will participate as of right to the greatest playoff series of Italian basketball. In 1986 he was hired by the formation dell'Alno Fabriano where he played continuously from 1986 to 1991 played in all 151 games. Changes in 1991 and is wearing the jacket's Basket Rimini where he remained until 1994 with 120 games played. In 1994, try the big jump in training Virtus Rome. Unfortunately here is only for a season where he played the yellow-red 31st meetings. In 1996 the return in Brazil with the first Liga Angrense, then with the Jacarei, the Colégio Bandeirantes, the Mackenzie / Barueri and finally the formation of Hebraica where he concluded his playing career and join the technical staff of the company. Even in the Brazilian national team (as seen from the photo) made "his" game from 1982 to 1995. During that time he won two gold medals at the Americans Championships (1984 Brazil and Uruguay 1988), 3 bronze medals in the championships more Americans (Mexico 1989, USA 1992 and Argentina 1995), a silver medal at the games Pan American (Caracas 1983) and a gold medal again at the Pan American Games (Indianapolis 1987). He also played the World Cup in 1982 (8th place), 1986 (4th place), 1990 (5th); 1984 Olympics Games (9th place), 1988 (5th place) and 1992 (5th place), the FIBA Americas in 1989 (3rd place).