José Carlos Ribeiro de Carvalho Guimarães (born 9 April 1964 in

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), known as Zé Carlos, is a former Angolan

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player and a former coach of the

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. He played as a guard and as a forward. He achieved a huge success in his career playing for Portuguese side Benfica, where he won several National Championship and the Cup of Portugal titles, with his fellow countryman Jean-Jacques. Guimarães also lived the dream of playing against the 1992 US Olympic Dream Team and at the

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. He later became assistant coach of the

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Squad. He served as coach of the Angolan national basketball team from May 2012 to May 2013.

Dismissal as head coach

On a press conference held on May 31, 2013, Guimarães said he is considering abandoning all basketball-related activity due to the disrespectful manner that some individuals - whom he did not name - handled the case of his dismissal. Guimarães learned of his dismissal, with the announcement by the

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in a previous news conference, of Paulo Macedo as the new head coach. ''After they let me do all the preparations, summon the players, prepare training camp, they just decided to sack me'', he said. Guimarães has been offered, instead, a job as an advisor to the chairman of the

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, which he declined. The Angolan media, generally agrees that the Federation should have handled Mr. Guimarães' dismissal in a more appropriate way, such as giving him proper notice of his own dismissal.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Guimaraes, Jose Carlos 1964 births Living people Angolan basketball coaches Angolan expatriate basketball people in Portugal Angolan men's basketball players 1990 FIBA World Championship players Basketball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics C.D. Primeiro de Agosto men's basketball players Olympic basketball players for Angola Point guards FC Porto basketball players S.L. Benfica basketball players Ovarense Basquetebol players Sporting Clube de Luanda basketball players Basketball players from Luanda 1986 FIBA World Championship players