Career
He is 6 ft 4 in (193 m) in height and 91 kg (200 pounds) in weight. Almeida played for Angola at the 2000 and the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2002 and 2006 basketball world championship as well as the 2005, 2007 Africa championships and 2009 Africa championship. On April 17, 2014, Almeida played his last official game in the 1st leg of the 2014 Angola Basketball Cup against Petro de Luanda, a match involving the two most important clubs in his career.
At the end of the game, honours were paid to him for his long, successful basketball career.