WFP/ JOSE MOURINHO ZERO HUNGER

Chelsea Football Club manager Jose Mourinho was officially appointed as a UN ambassador against hunger for the World Food Programme.  Mourinho will use his status to raise awareness about WFP’s life-saving work and champion the Zero Hunger Challenge which aims to eliminate hunger in our lifetime. WFP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:13
• Production Date: 19 May 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: NUTRITION; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS
• Geographic Subject: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; SYRIA; SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: 1024677

Description

STORY: WFP/ JOSE MOURINHO ZERO HUNGER
TRT: 1:13
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 19 MAY 2014, LONDON, ENGLAND

Shotlist

19 MAY 2014, LONDON, ENGLAND

1. Wide shot, WFP Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, Amir Abdulla presenting Jose Mourinho with a WFP vest
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jose Mourinho, Chelsea Football Club manager:
“The good thing of football, which is the power football has socially, so if I can use the power that football gives us socially worldwide, I think it’s very important.”

FILE - 17 MARCH 2014, BANGUI, CAR

3. Tilt up, mother and child
4. Tilt down, baby being weighed in bucket
5. Med shot, baby being weighed

19 MAY 2014, LONDON, ENGLAND

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jose Mourinho, Chelsea Football Club manager:
“I don’t think many people is aware of the numbers, I wasn’t aware of the numbers.”

FILE – WFP operations for Syrian refugees Jordan

7. Pan left, tents

FILE – 1 April 2014, WFP South Sudan airdrop

8. Wide shot, plane dropping food parcels

19 MAY 2014, LONDON, ENGLAND

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jose Mourinho, Chelsea Football Club manager:
“People makes football more important than it is. And there are things much more important than football obviously.”

10. Various shots, photo-op Mourinho with football

Storyline

Chelsea Football Club manager Jose Mourinho was officially appointed as a United Nations ambassador against hunger for the World Food Programme. Mourinho will use his status to raise awareness about WFP’s life-saving work and champion the Zero Hunger Challenge which aims to eliminate hunger in our lifetime.

Speaking at a press conference today (19 May) in London, Mourhino said that football has so much power socially around the world, it can help attract attention to such an important cause.

842 million people in the world do not have enough to eat. Poor nutrition causes nearly half of all deaths among children under the age of five years.

He said that he wasn’t aware of the number of people who are hungry and that this was so much more important than football.

Mourinho - whose wife Matilde is also being appointed as a WFP Special Ambassador for school feeding - is expected to visit WFP operations in sub-Saharan Africa in the coming weeks.

Mourinho has achieved the remarkable feat of coaching teams that have twice won the UEFA Champions League, as well as picking up multiple awards as winners of their domestic league titles in Spain, Italy, Portugal and England.

As a WFP Ambassador Against Hunger, Mourinho joins a group of international celebrities and athletes, including the actress, Drew Barrymore, the singer, Cristina Aguilera, and the footballer, Kaka.