Guilherme 'Gui' Carvalho Dos Santos is a Brazilian

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player.

Club career

In 2018, he played for

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U21 team where he averaged 6.7 points, 5.7 rebounds, 2.5 assists, 10.5

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and 23.0 minutes on the court - at only 16 years of age.Confira 10 prospectos que disputarão a LDB 2019
Paulo Chacon (Olimpiada Todo Dia), 10 July 2019. Accessed 23 June 2021. In the

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, because he was still in school and for several other reasons, he was unable to fully follow the adult team's routine.Ala Gui Carvalho prestes a ganhar mais espaço no basquete do Minas Tênis Clube
Daniel Ottoni (O TEMPO), 14 August 2020. Accessed 28 June 2021. In the 2019 Basketball Development League (LDB), Gui was the leader of the Minas team. At 17, his averages were 14.5 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.6 assists in the U-20 championship. In 2019, Gui Carvalho was already part of his club's senior cast. He entered the court in three Minas games in the

– against

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, Vasco and Sesi Franca. In the

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, Minas' coach Léo Costa granted Carvalho a bigger role with the team.

National team

He was one of the main players in the Brazilian team that won the 2019 U-17 South American Championship. In February 2020, Gui Santos was called up by Aleksandar Petrovic for the Brazilian senior national team. He scored 11 points in the two games against

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at the 2021 Copa America qualifiers.

Miscellaneous

Gui Carvalho was one of the Brazilian representatives at

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, a camp held by

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and the

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that brought together 64 prospects from Latin America for training sessions in the city of

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(Colombia), and also at the

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Youth Elite Camp, that happened in

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, Brazil at the end of 2018. According to the Brazilian news site ''O TEMPO'', Carvalho is the ''Darling of the Crowd'' (''um xodó da torcida''). Gui recalls that especially the support of Minas teammates Alex Garcia and

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helped him shape his game and reach success.

References

External links

FIBA Profile

Champions League ProfileProfile
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