Italian Mino Raiola, 54, himself denied the rumor of his death, through a tweet he posted on Twitter, saying, “The current state of health for those who ask, angry, they killed me for the second time in just four months, and it seems that they are able to revive me as well.”
Raiola was born in Italy in 1967, and raised in the Netherlands, and worked as a waiter in a restaurant for his parents, then turned to a failed practice of football with Harlem Club, so he stopped playing, at the age of eighteen, and moved to take over the position of sports director, following the club was impressed by his management skills .
After a while, Raiola, who speaks seven languages: Italian, English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Dutch, moved to Sports Promotions as a sports agent, and helped transfer players, most notably Dennis Bergkamp, from Ajax Amsterdam to Inter Milan in 1993.
Raiola left the company, and established his own company specialized in managing the interests of football players, and his first deal was heavy, as he oversaw the transfer of Czech football legend Pavel Nedved from Sparta Prague to Lazio Roma.
Raiola today represents a number of stars, most notably Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic, French Paul Pogba, Norwegian Erling Halland, Italian Gianluigi Donnarumma, Dutchman Matthias de Ligt and Italian Marco Verratti.
The most important deals were those that Raiola called “the greatest deal in my life ever”, when Zlatan transferred to Milan on loan with the option to buy for 24 million euros in installments, instead of the sixty million demanded by Barcelona, and transferred the Brazilian Robinho from Manchester City to Milan. for 18 million euros.
In 2016, Raiola received 25 million euros for the transfer of Frenchman Paul Pogba from Juventus to Manchester United, in a total deal worth 105 million euros, and according to Forbes magazine, the wealth of the most famous agent amounted to regarding 85 million dollars in 2020.
