Luís Magalhães is a Portuguese

Portuguese people

The Portuguese are a nation and ethnic group native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of south-west Europe. Their language is Portuguese, and Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion....

 basketball coach and the head coach of the Angola national basketball team

Angola national basketball team

The Angola national basketball team represents Angola in international basketball matches and is controlled by the Federação Angolana de Basquetebol. Angola has been a member of FIBA since 1979...

. He succeeded fellow Portugal native Alberto Carvalho

Alberto Carvalho

Alberto de Carvalho, also known as Ginguba , is the Angolan-Portuguese coach of the Angola national basketball team....

 in 2009, and coached Angola at the FIBA Africa Championship 2009

FIBA Africa Championship 2009

The 2009 FIBA Africa Championship 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...

, where the team won its seventh consecutive African championship.

Prior to moving to Angola

Angola

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, Magalhães was one of the best coaches in Portuguese basketball. He led three different teams to the Portuguese Basketball Premier League title - Portugal Telecom (2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03), FC Porto (2003–04), and Ovarense

Ovarense (basketball)

Ovarense Basketball is a team of professional basketball that plays in Ovar, Portugal. The team plays in the LCB. The Ovarense created its section of basketball in 1970, with the initiative of a member entrepreneur, John Gonçalves, but in this space of time managed to assert itself as one of the...

 (2006–07). He moved to Angolan side Clube Desportivo Primeiro de Agosto

Clube Desportivo Primeiro de Agosto

Clube Desportivo Primeiro de Agosto , is a sports club from Luanda, Angola.-History:...

in 2008, where he again led that team to a title.