Danny Moran

Daniel M. Moran is a Filipino retired footballer, businessman and philanthropist.

Early life and education Danny Moran was born to Henry V. Moran and Edita Moran. He is the second eldest of seven children. He studied at the De La Salle University system from primary school. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematics from De La Salle in 1977.

Football Playing career A product of the Kasibulan grassroots program of the Philippine Football Association (PFA) along with his brother Mike, Danny Moran was a player for the Philippines national football team in the 1970s.

He also played for the De La Salle football team helping them clinch three National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) titles (1974–75, 1976–77, 1977–78) and a University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) title (1975). Likewise, he also played with his brother Mike with La Salle.

He established The Henry V. Moran Foundation (THVMF) which was named after his father to cater to indigent children. It also promoted football to its beneficiaries. THVMF trained teams which represented the Philippines at the 2008 and 2009 Homeless World Cups and the 2010 Street Child World Cup.

Moran's foundation and the PFF under president Mariano Araneta brought in Vic Hermans to help run the PFF's futsal program and helped re-established a Philippines women's national futsal team in 2022. However by January 2025, Hermans was removed from his position as women's national team coach and Moran from his role as team manager by the PFF administration under John Gutierrez.

The Pinay5 Futsal Club was then formed by Moran and is billed as the first professional women's futsal club in the Philippines.

Business career Moran helped his wife Tessie manage a desert and pastry business set up in 1979 which eventually grew to be the Red Ribbon Bakeshop chain. Red Ribbon which had grown to a network 146 stores, including 20 in the United States, was sold to Jollibee Foods Corporation in 2005.

Personal life Moran is married to Tessie Mercado, a woman from Pampanga who was his college girlfriend.