According to the latest reports from ESPN's Adriana Garcia, Sporting Lisbon president Frederico Varandas is ready to offer his services as a doctor during the coronavirus pandemic.
The 40-year-old took to Instagram to make this important announcement: "For the generations of our parents and grandparents, but also for this generation that cannot grow up in a country suffocated in another serious economic crisis. For all of them, for Portugal ... come on. Each in its own way.
"Some taking care of the sick, others making bread, others informing the Portuguese people, others working on their services to keep the economy and the country up.
"I served my country; today I will return to do so as long as the state of emergency continues...and I will return to do so always as long as Portugal needs it. Let's do it. Let's do it with everything."
His home country will surely need people of Varandas stature - currently there are 785 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Portugal and three deaths.
The Portuguese league has been suspended indefinitely amid the COVID-19 concerns.
