Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Almeida ya fara yin gasa don Cape Verde a gasar zakarun duniya ta 2000 IAAF
a Vilamoura, Portugal inda ya sanya 138th a cikin gajeren tseren maza a cikin lokaci na 13:29. A tseren 25 na Madrid Marathon a watan Afrilu 2002, Almeida ya yi rikodin lokaci mafi kyau na 2: 25:50. A shekara mai zuwa a gasar zakarun duniya ta 2003 a Paris, ya gama na 69 a tseren marathon tare da lokacin 2: 33:31.