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Michael Emenalo Sporting Director, Chelsea


Michael is considered by many to be Premier League club Chelsea’s most infl uential man outside the owner, Roman Abramovich. He was promoted from his position as chief scout to assistant fi rst- team coach aſt er the much-publicised November 2010 departure of assistant fi rst-team coach Ray Wilkins from Chelsea’s set-up. T en in July 2011, Chelsea appointed him as their technical director. It was an extraordinary rise to one of the most infl uential positions in European club football. His responsibilities include heading the scouting and academy programmes. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, the 47-year-old former footballer enjoyed spells at teams across the world: Molenbeek in Belgium, Eintracht Trier in Germany and Notts County in England, for example. He spent two seasons in the US with the San Jose Clash and he also played with Lleida in Spain and Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel. Michael represented his country 14 times and played in the 1994 World Cup in the USA, missing the fi rst game owing to injury but then playing against Argentina and Greece before Nigeria were knocked out by Italy. Aſt er he hung up his boots Michael returned to the States, coaching the under-12s team at the Tucson Soccer Academy in Tucson, Arizona.


Jessica Ennis MBE


Olympic heptathlon gold medalist, World heptathlon and pentathlon champion


Jessica confi rmed her position as a national treasure aſt er her heroics in the London Olympics. By winning the heptathlon, to secure Britain’s fi rst Olympics 2012 track gold medal, she also cemented her place as the world’s greatest all-round female athlete. T e 26-year-old has had a phenomenal sporting career. Born in Sheffi eld of Jamaican and English parentage she started her career aged just 14 years old in 2000 when she won the Whitham Award for the best high jump performance by a Sheffi eld schools athlete. Aſt er a sparkling youth and junior career she won a Commonwealth Games bronze medal in the heptathlon in Melbourne in 2006. In 2009 Jessica won gold at the World Championships in Berlin and a silver in 2011 in Daegu. She also won a pentathlon gold at the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha, winning silver two years later in Istanbul in the run-up to the big one – winning the Olympic heptathlon gold in front of an adoring home crowd in the London 2012 Games and setting her personal best points total as well as a national British record to boot! Jessica’s talent and grace is inspiring a generation of budding athletes and she is a positive role model for young women.


Hope Powell


Head Coach, England Women Football


Put simply, Hope is the most infl uential person in British women’s football. She led Team GB’s women’s football team to the quarter- fi nals at the London 2012 Olympics. Despite being knocked out at that stage the team’s impressive performance helped to raise the profi le of British women’s football around the world. In 2011 she had also taken England to the Women’s World Cup quarter- fi nals, where they lost to France in extra time by the narrowest of margins. When Hope was appointed as the fi rst full-time national coach of England in 1998 she was not only the youngest and fi rst female England coach but also the fi rst black head coach of any England football side. She now oversees the whole England women’s set-up from the under-15s to the under-21s. In 2003 she was the fi rst woman to gain the Uefa Pro A-Licence, the highest coaching qualifi cation in the game. Internationally, Hope is widely regarded as one of the best women coaches in the world and was chosen by Fifa, the sport’s governing body, to manage a global all- star women’s side in 2007. As a player she won 66 caps for England, scoring 35 goals. She is a patron of the Kick It Out campaign and of the Women’s Sports Foundation. In the 2010 Honours list she was awarded a CBE.


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Lewis Hamilton Formula One Driver


Despite tribulations over the past couple of years, the 2008 World Champion is still probably the most iconic star in one of the world’s most popular sports. In the minds of many racing afi cionados Lewis is the most naturally giſt ed driver on the circuit. In March 2011, Lewis, who had formerly been managed by his father Anthony, signed for Simon Fuller’s XIX Entertainment, the talent management company that counts David Beckham and Andy Murray among its clients. At the age of 10 Lewis famously approached Ron Dennis, McLaren’s team principal, in December 1995 and told him that he wanted to race for the team one day. Less than three years later he was signed up for McLaren’s young driver programme, and 12 years later, in 2007, he made his F1 debut and set numerous records along the way. At the time of going to press much of Lewis’s hitherto patchy 2012 season has been surrounded by speculation over whether he would be moving from McLaren to Mercedes at the end of the season, a shiſt that was fi nally confi rmed in September. Opinion is divided over whether the move to partner German driver Nico Rosberg will revive Lewis’s fl agging fortunes but his natural ability is such that many expect him to come out on top regardless of the team he’s driving for. Watch this space.


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