Amador Obordo was from Mambusao in the Capiz Province of the West Visayas group of islands. He won three consecutive NCAA college championships 1931-33 with the Ateneo Blue Eagles and was elected in 1933 as the most valuable player. Representing the Philippines, Obordo won a basketball gold at the 1934 Far Eastern Games and placed fifth at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. In the 1940s, he coached the basketball team of Ateneo University. During the liberation in 1945, he died when his house in Manila’s Paco District caught fire after the Japanese bombed the city.
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