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Clube Ferroviário De Luanda (basketball)
The Clube Ferroviário de Luanda (in English: Railway Club Luanda) is an Angolan basketball team based in Luanda. It is the basketball section of the multi-sports club with the same name. In the past, they have also played in Angolan Basketball League, winning the national title in 1979. While the club has currently not been involved in any official competitions at the senior level, Clube Ferroviário is one of the most traditional clubs in Luanda and the one to have won the first national basketball championship after the country's independence. Honours * Angolan National Championship: **Winner (1): 1978–79 Chairman history * 1981–1985 Francisco de Almeida * 1985–1988 Feliciano Pedrosa * 1988–1995 António Agante * 1996–2005 Sílvio Vinhas * 2005–2012 Abel Cosme * 2013–2016 Bráulio de Brito * 2017–pres Jorge Abreu Rosters 1985 Squad See also * Ferroviário de Luanda Handball *Federação Angolana de Basquetebol '' , abbrev=F.A.B. , logo=Federação Ango ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luanda
Luanda () is the Capital (political), capital and largest city in Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major Angola#Economy, industrial, Angola#Culture, cultural and Angola#Demographics, urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast, Luanda is Angola's administrative centre, its chief seaport, and also the capital of the Luanda Province. Luanda and its metropolitan area is the most populous Portuguese language, Portuguese-speaking capital city in the world and the most populous Lusophone city outside Brazil, with over 8.3 million inhabitants in 2020 (a third of Angola's population). Among the oldest colonial cities of Africa, it was founded in January 1576 as ''São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda'' by Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais. The city served as the centre of the Slavery in Angola, slave trade to Brazil before its prohibition. At the start of the Angolan Civil War in 1975, most of the white Portuguese left as refugees, princ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulo Madeira (basketball)
Paulo Sérgio Braga Madeira (born 6 September 1970) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a central defender. Club career Madeira was born in Luanda, Portuguese Angola. A youth graduate of S.L. Benfica, he made his first-team debut in 1989–90 and, after serving a loan with fellow Primeira Liga club C.S. Marítimo, returned for another season. After excellent displays with Lisbon neighbours C.F. Os Belenenses, Madeira was bought back by Benfica, but failed to appear regularly in his second spell with his '' alma mater'' (five years), which included a demotion to the reserves. He retired at almost 34 after brief stints with Fluminense FC and C.F. Estrela da Amadora, with the campaign ending in relegation; over the course of 13 seasons, he amassed top-division (the only competition he appeared in in his country) totals of 291 games and 12 goals. International career At international level, Madeira was part of the Portugal senior team that partici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basketball Teams In Angola
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a Backboard (basketball), backboard at each end of the court, while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A Field goal (basketball), field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the 3 point line, three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one, two or three one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (Overtime (sports), overtime) is mandated. Players advance the ball by bouncing it while walking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Clubs In Angola
Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, through casual or organized participation, improve participants' physical health. Hundreds of sports exist, from those between single contestants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals. In certain sports such as racing, many contestants may compete, simultaneously or consecutively, with one winner; in others, the contest (a ''match'') is between two sides, each attempting to exceed the other. Some sports allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure one winner and one loser. A number of contests may be arranged in a tournament producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federação Angolana De Basquetebol
The Angolan Basketball Federation (''Federação Angolana de Basquetebol'' or simply FAB) is the governing body of official basketball competitions in Angola. FAB was founded in 1976, with Mr. José Jaime de Castro Guimarães serving as chairman. The federation was first housed at Rua Rainha Ginga and later moved to the current address on the ground floor of an apartment building located in the Cidadela Sports Compound. FAB oversees the activities of the 18 provincial basketball associations in the country. Typically the federation has a 42-member staff, including 3 members of the general assembly, 3 from the audit committee, 5 from the legal board, 5 from the disciplinary board and 16 collaborators while the management is made up of 10 members. On an annual basis, the federation organizes the men's national championship aka BAI Basket, the Angola Women's Basketball League, women's championship as well as the Taça de Angola de Basquetebol, Angolan Cup and Angola Basketball Super Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clube Ferroviário De Luanda (handball)
The Clube Ferroviário de Luanda aka Ferroportuária, sports club, among other sports, has a women's handball team competing at the local level, at the Luanda Provincial Handball Championship and at the Angola National Handball Championship. While the club has currently not been involved in any official competitions, Clube Ferroviário was the first Angolan Team handball Club to win an African champions cup title, having achieved such a feat in 1987. Honours * Angolan League: **Winner (9): 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 * African Club Champions Cup: **Winner (1): 1987 Players Chairman history * 1981–1985 Francisco de Almeida * 1985–1988 Feliciano Pedrosa * 1988–1995 António Agante * 1996–2005 Sílvio Vinhas * 2005–2012 Abel Cosme * 2013–2016 Bráulio de Brito * 2017–pres Jorge Abreu See also * Ferroviário de Luanda Basketball *Federação Angolana de Andebol The Angolan Handball Federation (''Federação Angolana de Andebol'' or simpl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hélder Cruz
Hélder is a given name in Portuguese. The unrelated German-Jewish surname "Helder" is also given the accent in Portuguese, such as the Portuguese poet Herberto Hélder (1930-). The name is sometimes confused with Heitor. People named Hélder include: * Hélder Fragueiro Antunes, a Portugues-American executive * Hélder Barbosa (born 1987), Portuguese footballer * Hélder Cabral (born 1984), Portuguese footballer * Hélder Catalão (born 1955), Portuguese footballer * Hélder Cristóvão (born 1971), Angola-born Portuguese footballer, often just called Hélder * Hélder Costa (born 1994), Angola-born Portuguese footballer * Hélder Costa (playwright) (born 1939), Portuguese dramatist, formerly exiled in Paris * Hélder Muianga (born 1976), Mozambican football player * Hélder Esteves (born 1977), Portuguese football striker * Helder Francisco Malauene, Mozambican politician * Hélder Macedo (born 1935), Portuguese literary scholar and writer * Hélder Maurílio (born 1988) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gil Almeida
Gil or GIL may refer to: Places * Gil Island (other), one of several islands by that name * Gil, Iran, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran * Hil, Azerbaijan, also spelled ''Gil, a village in Azerbaijan * Hiloba, also spelled ''Gil, a village in Azerbaijan People * Gil (given name) *Gil (surname) * Gil (footballer, born 1950), Brazilian footballer, Gilberto Alves *Gil (footballer, born June 1987), Brazilian footballer, Carlos Gilberto Nascimento Silva *Gil (footballer, born September 1987), Brazilian footballer, José Gildeixon Clemente de Paiva * Gil (footballer, born 1991), Brazilian footballer, Givanilton Martins Ferreira * José Gildeixon Clemente de Paiva (1987–2016), Brazilian footballer *Gil Gomes (born 1972), Portuguese retired footballer * Gilberto Ribeiro Gonçalves (born 1980), Brazilian footballer * Gilmelândia (born 1975), Brazilian singer known as "Gil" * Gill (musician) (born 1977), South Korean singer Fiction * Gil, a non-canon ''Star Trek' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josué Campos
Josue is a name, a variant of the name Joshua. It may refer to: Given name * Josué Dubois Berthelot de Beaucours (1662-1750), French military officer * Athanase Josué Coquerel (1820-1875), French Protestant theologian * Josue Dupon (1864-1935), Belgian sculptor * Josué Smith Solar (1867-1938), Chilean architect * Josué Francisco Trocado (1882-1962), Portuguese composer * Josué Jéhouda (1892-1966), Swiss Zionist writer and journalist * Josué de Castro (1908-1973), Brazilian physician * Josué Santos (1916-2007), Mexican basketball player * Josué Bengtson (born 1944), Brazilian politician and pastor * Josué Sánchez (born 1945), Peruvian painter * Josue Marquez (1946-2018), Puerto Rican boxer * Josué Modesto dos Passos Subrinho (born 1956), Brazilian economics professor * Josué Teixeira (born 1960), Brazilian football manager * Josué Blocus (born 1969), French heavyweight boxer * Josué Camacho (born 1969), Puerto Rican boxer * Josué & Trópico Suemba (born 1969) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angola
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Aníbal Moreira
Aníbal de Jesús Moreira (born 17 September 1966) is an Angolan retired basketball player and current coach. He is an assistant coach for Petro de Luanda (basketball), Petro de Luanda. Playing career He competed at the Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics, 1992, Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics, 1996 and Basketball at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2000 Summer Olympics with the Angola national basketball team. References External links * 1966 births Living people Angolan expatriate basketball people in Portugal Angolan men's basketball players 1990 FIBA World Championship players Olympic basketball players for Angola Basketball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Atlético Petróleos de Luanda basketball players C.A. Queluz players C.D. Primeiro de Agosto men's basketball players Clube Ferroviário de Luanda basketball players Point guards Power forwards (basketball) Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wlademiro Romero
Wlademiro Romero, deceased 1999, was an Angolan basketball coach. Together with Victorino Cunha, he is considered to be a large contributor in Angola's dominance over the African basketball arena. Romero led the Angola National team to an African title, in 1995 but failed to repeat the feat in 1997, finishing third. He also coached the national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Following a car crash in late 1999, Romero was evacuated to South Africa for treatment. However, he died in that same year as a result of complications from the accident. For all his deeds towards Angolan basketball, the Angolan Basketball Super Cup was renamed in 2001 as Wlademiro Romero Super Cup. See also * List of FIBA AfroBasket winning head coaches * Victorino Cunha Victorino Eugénio da Silva e Cunha, (born April 18, 1945 in Mogofores, Portugal) is a former basketball player and basketball coach. While being born in Portugal, he moved to Angola at the age of 3. Cunha, who coached the Ang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
