{{short description|Mozambican basketball player}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Pio Matos Jr. | image = | caption = | position = Point guard | height_m = 1.85 | weight_kg = | league = Mozambican League | team = Ferroviário de Maputo | number = 8 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1990|11|29|df=y}} | birth_place = Quelimane, Mozambique | nationality = Mozambican | high_school = | college = | draft_year = | career_start = | career_end = | years1={{0}}{{0}}{{0}}{{0}}–2015 | team1=Desportivo Maputo | years2=2015–present | team2=Ferroviário de Maputo | highlights = * 3× Mozambican League champion (2015, 2018, 2019) * Mozambican League MVP (2015) | medaltemplates = }}
'''Pio da Silva Matos Júnior''' (born 29 November 1990) is a Mozambican professional basketball player for Ferroviário de Maputo of the Mozambican Division I Basketball League.
Matos was named league most valuable player (MVP) in 2015 and has won two championships: with Desportivo de Maputo in 2015 and with Ferroviário de Maputo in 2018.<ref name="cavele">{{cite web |last1=Cavele |first1=Aristides |title=Matos: um apelido, três manos na final |url=http://opais.sapo.mz/matos-um-apelido-tres-manos-na-final |website=SAPO Moçambique |accessdate=27 October 2019 |language=Portuguese |date=5 September 2019 |archive-date=9 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190909013641/http://opais.sapo.mz/matos-um-apelido-tres-manos-na-final |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is a regular member of the Mozambican national team and has experience at AfroBasket.<ref name="fiba">{{cite web |title=It's all about self-confidence for Mozambique's Pio Matos |url=http://www.fiba.basketball/basketballworldcup/2019/african-qualifiers/news/its-all-about-selfconfidence-for-mozambiques-pio-matos |publisher=FIBA |accessdate=27 October 2019}}</ref>
Matos has a twin brother, Augusto, who plays professional basketball in Mozambique and for the national team. Their older brother, Amarildo, also plays basketball at the professional level.<ref name="sitoe">{{cite web |last1=Sitoe |first1=Duarte |title=Pio Matos o mais valioso basquetebolista de Moçambique |url=http://www.verdade.co.mz/desporto/54240-pio-matos-o-mais-valioso-basquetebolista-de-mocambique |website=Verdade |accessdate=27 October 2019 |language=Portuguese |date=29 July 2015}}</ref>
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== External links == *[http://basketball.realgm.com/player/Pio-da-Silva-Matos/Summary/28579 RealGM profile] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20180520051427/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/lid_38135_cp/1/pid/69091/q/pio%20matos/rpp//_//players.html FIBA profile] {{Ferroviário de Maputo basketball current roster}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Matos, Pio}} Category:Living people Category:1990 births Category:Point guards Category:Mozambican men's basketball players Category:21st-century Mozambican sportsmen Category:African Games silver medalists for Mozambique Category:African Games silver medalists in basketball Category:Basketball players at the 2011 All-Africa Games Category:Ferroviário de Maputo (basketball) players