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Sub-20 Team decorated

President Cavaco Silva decorated the Sub-20 National Football Team

The President of the Republic received, in audience, the members of the Sub-20 Male National Football Team, who gained the title of vice champions of the World in the recent competition that took place in Colombia, and who he decorated with several degrees of the Orders of the Prince Henry the Navigator and of Merit.

On the occasion, President Aníbal Cavaco Silva delivered an address before the decoration ceremony of the Team – players, technical team and officers – took place.

The following members of the Sub-20 Football Team were decorated:

COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF PRINCE HENRY THE NAVIGATOR

Amândio José Correia de Carvalho, Deputy Administrative Chairman of the Portuguese Football Federation, Ilídio Fernando Torres Vale, National Coach, and José António Guerreiro Cavaco, Manager.

KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF PRINCE HENRY THE NAVIGATOR

Players Alexandre Henrique Gonçalves Freitas, Amido Baldé, Cédric Ricardo Alves Soares, Danilo Luís Hélio Pereira, Judilson Mamadú Tuncará Gomes, Júlio Regufe Alves, Lassana Camará, Luís Carlos Gaspar Santos Ribeiro, Luís Carlos Ramos Martins, Mário Rui Silva Duarte, Michael Simões Domingues, Nélson Miguel Castro Oliveira, Nuno Miguel Pereira Reis, Rafael Guimarães Lopes, Ricardo Jorge Santos Dias, Roderick Jefferson Gonçalves Miranda, Rui Miguel Teixeira Caetano, Sérgio Manuel Costa Carneiro, Sérgio Miguel Relvas Oliveira, Tiago Emanuel Canelas Almeida Ferreira and Tiago Manuel Silva Maia.

OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF MERIT

Hélio Filipe Dias de Sousa, National Coach, Pedro Manuel Espinha Ferreira, Goal Keeping Coach, and Rui Manuel dos Santos Caçador, National Coach.

MEDAL OF THE ORDER OF MERIT

António José Salas Cravinho, Secretary, Fernando Manuel Gayoso Pinto Pais, Physician, Hugo Miguel Dias Vieira, Equipment Manager, Ivo Leandro Lopes Silva, Audiovisual Manager, João Paulo Simões Ramos, Equipment Manager, Joaquim Alberto Costa Milheiro Silva, Physical Trainer, Jorge Armando Encarnação Santos, Nurse, Jorge Fernando Pon Nunes, Physician, Luís Filipe Patrão Dias, Head Chef, Luís Manuel Figueiredo Ribeiro, Physiotherapist, and Nuno Amorim Dias da Silva, Police Security Officer.