Nuno Jorge Pereira da Silva Valente is a former Portuguese professional footballer who played as a left-back or a winger. He later became a manager.
União Desportiva de Leiria, commonly known as União de Leiria, is a Portuguese football club based in Leiria. Founded on 6 June 1966, it currently plays in the Liga Portugal 2, holding home matches at Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa, with a 23,888-seat capacity.
The Angola national football team represents Angola in men's international football and is controlled by the Angolan Football Federation. Nicknames Palancas Negras, the team is a member of both FIFA and the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
The Burkina Faso national football team represents Burkina Faso in men's international football and is controlled by the Burkinabé Football Federation. They were known as the Upper Volta national football team until 1984, when Upper Volta became Burkina Faso. They finished fourth in the 1998 Africa Cup of Nations, when they hosted the tournament. Their best ever finish in the tournament was the 2013 edition, reaching the final.
Mateus Galiano da Costa, known simply as Mateus, is an Angolan professional footballer who plays as a winger or a forward for Portuguese club F.C. Maia Lidador.
João Paulo Andrade, known as João Paulo, is a Portuguese footballer who plays mainly as a central defender for FC Castrense.
Bakary Soro is a Burkinabé professional footballer who recently played as a defender for Şanlıurfaspor. He has represented the Ivory Coast at under-20 level and Burkina Faso in an exhibition game.
Narcisse Yaméogo is a Burkinabé former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
Paulo Lourenço Martins Alves is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a centre-forward, currently manager of Primera Federación club Lugo.
Marco Paulo da Silva Soares is a professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club Florgrade FC as a defensive midfielder.
Stélvio Rosa da Cruz, known simply as Stélvio, is an Angolan professional footballer who plays for Luxembourg club FC Mondercange as a defensive midfielder.
Nilson Corrêa Júnior, known simply as Nilson, is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper, currently head coach of Campeonato Pernambucano club Maguary.
Football is the most popular sport in Burkina Faso. And the national association can look back on recent developments with a great deal of pride. Reaching the semi-finals of the African Cup of Nations on home soil in 1998, reaching the knockout stage for their first FIFA World Youth Championship in 2003, and appearances at two final competitions of the CAF U-17 Cup, as well as third place at the FIFA U-17 World Championship in Trinidad and Tobago in 2001 are the country's outstanding achievements at international level. The nations most famous players include Kassoum Ouegraogo, nicknamed Zico, who had his most successful seasons with Espérance de Tunis before ending his career in Germany, Siaka Ouattara, who spent his entire career with Mulhouse in France, and Moumouni Dagano, who was voted best African player in Belgium in 2001, when he played for the Belgian side Genk. He later went on to play for the French side Guingamp before transferring to another French team, FC Sochaux in 2005. Burkina Faso received an unexpected free pass into the group stage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification process, when their opening round contestant, the Central African Republic, withdrew from the competition. This gave the West Africans, who were at that stage ranked 14th on the continent, the certainty that their name would be in the hat when the Preliminary Draw for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany was made. They got off to a flying start, beating Ghana 1-0 in their opening match and laying down a marker for their Group 2 adversaries South Africa, Cape Verde Islands, Congo DR and Uganda. The victory train began to come off the rails with two defeats to Cape Verde, and with a record of two wins and three losses, Burkina Faso were up against it at the half-way stage. Frenchman Bernard Simondi took over the coaching reins from Ivica Todorov and made the team harder to beat at home, even recording wins over South Africa and Congo DR, but in the end it was not quite enough, and the likes of Abdoulaye Cisse, Moumouni Dagano, and Wilfred Sanou went no further in the competition.
Luís Miguel Bilro Pereira, known as Bilro, is a Portuguese retired football and beach soccer player.
Vítor Sérgio dos Santos Valente, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Issouf Ouattara is a Burkinabé professional footballer who plays as a forward.
Djakaridja Koné is a Burkinabé former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Elvis Manuel Monteiro Macedo, known as Babanco, is a Cape Verdean professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club U.D. Leiria as a midfielder.
Jorge António Rosa Casquilha is a Portuguese former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, currently a manager.
The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations was an international football tournament hosted by Gabon from 14 January to 5 February 2017.
