Manuel José - Portugese League Ambassador

Manuel José is a Portuguese football manager, who has coached Sporting Braga ("first to first"), Sporting Portugal, Boavista FC, Belenenses and SL Benfica, among other teams.
He is credited for discovering Luís Figo.

His best results were a Cup of Portugal win, in 1992, to Boavista, and 16 successive titles in various African football competitions as coach of Egyptian club Al-Ahly. Since joining Al-Ahly, he has helped give the team a record-breaking unbeaten run of 71 matches.

He also managed to win the African Champions League with the team 4 times (2001, 2005, 2006 and 2008), making him the first coach to achieve such a feat. In 2001, his first year, he guided the Cairo club to African Champions League glory with a squad comprising mostly of promising youngsters like Hossam Ghaly, now at Derby County FC on loan from Tottenham Hotspur. He marked his first victory with Al-Ahly in a friendly game victory 1-0 over Real Madrid.

Manuel Jose was honoured by the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak with the Medal of Sport of First Class for his contributions to Ahly and Egyptian Football on the December 24, 2006. This is the highest honor for a foreigner in Egypt.

Fernando Couto - Portugese League Ambassador

He’s a  former Portuguese professional football player. Couto has played in a number of top clubs in Portugal, Spain and Italy and he has won the national league title of each country, as well as the European UEFA Cup and UEFA Cup Winners' Cup trophies.

At the international level, he represented the Portugal national football team in 110 matches, and took part in the 2002 FIFA World Cup as well as three European Championship tournaments. During his last matches with the Portuguese national team, at the 2004 European Championship (Euro 2004), he was selected as team captain.

CLUBS: FC Porto (Portugal), FC Famalicão (Portugal), Académica de Coimbra O.A.F. (Portugal), Parma AC (Italy), FC Barcelona (Spain), SS Lazio (Italy),

Both Manuel José and Fernando Couto have been recently named as Portuguese League Ambassador for the EPFL / FAO “Professional Football Against Hunger” Campaign.