Togo Renan Soares

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Togo Renan Soares, nicknamed Kanela (born in 1906 and died in 1984), trained the Brazilian Basketball National Team in the 1960s, and won twice, in 1959 and 1963, the FIBA´s Basketball World Championship, beating in the finals the USSR in 1959 and the USA in 1963.

Kanela also trained Flamengo for many years, and, besides several other times, won 10 times the Brazilian League and the Rio de Janeiro League between 1951 and 1960.

The Gávea's gymnasium is named after him.

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