Mario Neves (born 11 October 1979 in Almada, Portugal) is a Cape Verdean-tuguese professional basketball player with CAB Madeira SAD of the Portuguese Basketball Premier League. [1] Also a member of the Cape Verde national basketball team, Mario Neves Oliveira joined Cape Verde to help them win a bronze medal at the FIBA Africa Championship 2007, qualifying for a wildcard tournament for the 2008 Summer Olympics. [2] He also participated with the team at the FIBA Africa Championship 2009, averaging 6.6 points and 7.2 rebounds per game as the team finished a disappointing 13th place. [3]
José Maria Pereira Neves is a Cape Verdean politician who is currently the president of Cape Verde, having previously served as the Prime Minister of Cape Verde from 2001 to 2016. He is a member of the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV). In the 2021 presidential election, he was elected with 51.7% of votes, beating his nearest rival Carlos Veiga who got 42.4% of the total votes.
Cape Verde is an island nation, part of the Macaronesian group of islands of the Atlantic Ocean and was a Portuguese colony during the colonial era between 1460 and 1975. EU-Cape Verde relations are founded on the EU/Cape Verde Special Partnership, agreed in 2007, building on six pillars:
The Republic of the Congo national basketball team is the men's basketball side that represent the Republic of the Congo in international competition. They have appeared in the FIBA Africa Championship, but have yet to appear in the FIBA World Championship.
The Cape Verde national basketball team represents Cape Verde in international basketball matches and is administered by the Federação Cabo-verdiana de Basquetebol.
Jean-Jacques Nzadi da Conceição, more commonly known as J.J. Conceição or Jean-Jacques, is an Angolan-Portuguese retired professional basketball player. A 2.02 m, 100 kg (220 lbs.) power forward, he represented Angola at the AfroBasket, where he won a record seven African titles. At the club level, he won five Angolan League championship titles with Primeiro de Agosto and four Angolan Cups, before moving to Benfica in Portugal, where he won seven Portuguese national championships and three Portuguese Federation Cups. He also went on to play for CSP Limoges in France, Baloncesto Málaga in Spain, and Portugal Telecom in Portugal.
Tony Barros is a Cape Verdean American basketball player with the Cape Verde national basketball team and formerly at the University of Massachusetts Boston. A cousin of former NBA player Dana Barros, Tony Barros helped Cape Verde finishing third in the FIBA Africa Championship 2007. At the tournament, Barros averaged 9.8 points per game and hit the game winning shot against Egypt to clinch the bronze medal. Barros is a graduate of Saint Sebastian's School in Needham, Massachusetts.
Mário Leonel Faria Borges de Palma is a Portuguese basketball coach.
Pedro Cipriano is an American-Cape Verdean basketball coach and former player who is currently an assistant coach at Southern University.
AfroBasket 2009 was the 25th FIBA Africa Championship, played under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de Basketball, the basketball sport governing body, and the African zone thereof. At stake were the three berths allocated to Africa in the 2010 FIBA World Championship. The tournament was hosted by Libya after Nigeria, the original host, withdrew from hosting after not conforming to FIBA Africa guidelines.
Rodrigo Mascarenhas is a Cape Verdean-Portuguese basketball player for Benfica. Standing at 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m), he plays as forward.
Naim Dhifallah is a Tunisian basketball player currently playing for Club Africain after playing for Egypt Assurance in the Egyptian Basketball League and Club Africain for the first six years of his career.
Mário “Marito” Correia is a Cape Verdean professional basketball player. He played for Primeiro de Agosto at the Angolan Basketball League until 2014, before being struck by injury. Correia’s early introduction to basketball started in the District Sports Association Kwame Nkrumah abbreviated to ADESBA-KN. Correia is currently the captain of the Cape Verde national basketball team and helped Cape Verde to a bronze medal at the FIBA Africa Championship 2007, qualifying for a wildcard tournament for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
The Uganda national basketball team represents Uganda in international basketball competitions. It is administrated by the Federation of Uganda Basketball Associations (FUBA).
Basketball is the second most popular sport in Cape Verde. The league are divided into eleven divisions, Santiago and Santo Antão has two zones since the early 2000s. The basketball association is a federation which is known as the Capeverdean Basketball Federation. The FCBB became was founded in 1986 and became affiliated to FIBA in 1988.
The Egypt national under-16 and under-17 basketball team is a national basketball team of Egypt, governed by the Egyptian Basketball Federation. It represents the country in international under-16 and under-17 basketball competitions.
Ivan Almeida is a Cape Verdean professional basketball player for Benfica of the Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol. Standing at 6 ft 6 in, he usually plays as small forward.
The Cape Verdean Basketball Federation is the basketball association in Cape Verde. It is located in the capital city of Praia at Gimnodesportivo Vava Duarte in the neighborhood of Chã das Areias. The volleyball and the athletics federation are also housed there. Its current president is Kitana Cabral.
The Cabo Verde International Film Festival (CVIFF) is a film festival in Cape Verde first established in 2010.
Anderson Arménio Gomes Correia is a Cape Verdean basketball player who currently plays for Petro de Luanda and the Cape Verde national team. Standing at 1.95 m, he plays as shooting guard.
Fidel Mendonça is a Cape Verdean basketball player for Prédio and the Cape Verde national basketball team. Standing at 1.87 m, he plays as shooting guard.