Dr. Ferran Morell Brotad is the visionary founder of the World Medical Football Championship. A pulmonologist, Emeritus Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and leading authority at the Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca, Dr. Morell exemplifies scientific rigor, professional leadership, and unwavering dedication to health and medical education.

In 1973, he founded Galens, a football club composed exclusively of physicians, which became a symbol of unity and camaraderie. This inspired him to create the World Medical Football Championship in Barcelona in 1995—a revolutionary idea that today gathers thousands of physicians from more than 25 countries. His founding vision forever defined the spirit of the WMFC: "The main objective of the WMFC is not only to play football, but to gain friends."

Dr. Vladimir Salazar Rosa (1975–2022), affectionately known as Vladi, was a specialist in Internal Medicine and head of the Thrombosis Unit at the Virgen de la Arrixaca University Clinical Hospital in Murcia, Spain. He was a member of the international RIETE registry for venous thromboembolic disease since 2004 and founded his hospital's Thrombosis Unit in 2008, which became the first venous thromboembolic disease unit in Spain to earn advanced-level accreditation from the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine.

In January 2021, Vladi was diagnosed with colon cancer with liver and lung metastases. Rather than giving up, he transformed his own illness into a life project to help others, founding the Onco Sport Never Surrender Foundation—a pioneering initiative bringing physical exercise, especially supervised strength training, to cancer patients throughout the Region of Murcia. Dr. Salazar passed away at 47, but his message lives on: never surrender.