Hortência Maria de Fátima Marcari is a former basketball player who is often considered to be one of the greatest women's basketball player in Brazil, alongside with Paula, and regarded as one of the greatest women's basketball player of all ever in the world by specialists in the world. Marcari is a member of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame , the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame , and FIBA Hall of Fame . She is known in her country as Hortência, and her nickname is The Queen. Hortência is of Italian background, her grandparents having moved to Brazil from... that European nation. Hortência's father was a laborer. When Hortência was ten years old, her family moved to São Paulo, and Hortência became interested in sports. Her family disapproved of her choice to play sports—her father had been disabled on the field so they wanted her to work bringing home part of the earnings her father used to--- but they eventually gave up on trying to prevent her from doing her favorite activity.
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| Birthdate: | September 23, 1959 |
| Age: | 52 |