Gustavo da Conceição
Angolan basketball player (born 1957)
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Gustavo Dias Vaz da Conceição (born 8 March 1957 in Luanda) is a former Angolan basketball player. Conceição, a small forward, competed for Angola at the 1980 Africa Basketball championship, an event that marked Angola's debut in the African competition arena and at the 1986 FIBA World Championship.
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| Born | March 8, 1957 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Small forward | ||||||||||||||||||||
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He is a brother of Angola senior police officer Fernando Torres Vaz da Conceição a.k.a. Mussolo and of Aldemiro Justino de Aguiar Vaz da Conceição, a longtime spokesman for the President and now the President's secretary for Regional Affairs.
From December 2004 to December 2012, he served two terms as chairman of the Angolan Basketball Federation. As of May, 2005, Gustavo da Conceição has been serving a second term as chairman of the Angolan Olympic Committee.[1] Conceição is also a member of the Angolan parliament for the ruling party MPLA.
