The Coach of the Year award will be contested between Lamine N'Diaye, who led TP Mazembe to the African Champions League title, Milovan Rajevac, the man who masterminded Ghana's World Cup campaign, and Egypt's Hassan Shehata.
In 1988, Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar hailed the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to U.N. peacekeeping forces as a tribute to idealism, valor and sacrifice.