Mino Raiola

Carmine " Mino " Raiola (* November 4, 1967 in Nocera Inferiore ) is an Italian, active in football, players' agents.

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Biography

Raiola was born in Nocera Inferiore in Salerno province. In 1968 his parents emigrated to the year Raiola in the Netherlands to Haarlem and opened a restaurant, which also later worked Raiola. He also studied briefly Law and shortly thereafter Raiola got into sports marketing. In addition, the President of HFC Haarlem signed him. Early nineties as sports director, which should be for him the beginning of his rapid ascent

Career as a players' agent

Shortly after the beginning of its occurrence in the Dutch football Raiola was involved in some transfers well-known players of Ajax Amsterdam: thus, for Bryan Roy 1992 U.S. Foggia. In 1993, Marciano Vink under Raiolas participation to Genoa, also come under Raiolas participation transfers by Wim Jonk and Dennis Bergkamp to Inter Milan. His last major transfer, in which he remained in the background is by Michel Kreek, who moved to Calcio Padova in 1994.

Breakthrough

After some time, Raiola decided to come to the fore and the Hauptpersonalie to be on player transfers, which is why he founded his own company with Maguire Tax & Legal. Especially helpful to him here was the fact that he has mastered seven languages ​​Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch. So it was that the Czech midfielder Pavel Nedvěd Raiola transferred after the European Championships in 1996 by Sparta Prague to Lazio. With this business, Raiola established in European football. In 2001 Nedvěd mediated by Raiola, Lazio to Juventus.

Top European transfers

Since Raiola continue cultivated a good relationship with the person in charge of Ajax Amsterdam, he got more offers to advise players and mediate. So he took, for example, the Ajax players Mido and Maxwell under contract, he later switched to European top clubs. However, special attention gained Personnel Zlatan Ibrahimović: He, too, was one of Raiolas clients and changed on 31 August 2004 from Ajax to Juventus for € 16 million, which Raiola pocketed 500,000 euros himself as he ' holds the marketing rights Ibrahimović. Since then Raiola often organizes large transfers. Ibrahimović moved four times the Club ( Inter Milan, FC Barcelona, AC Milan, Paris SG) and is so far a transfer fee of about € 160 million, which means the world record for the Paris - transfer.

Other significant transfers of Mario Balotelli to Manchester City and AC Milan, Robinho's move to Milan and Henrich Mchitarjans transfer to Borussia Dortmund.

List of clients

The list (selection) presents current and former clients who are or were at Raiola under contract.

References

Directeur sportif Foggia Calcio Genoa C.F.C. S.S. Lazio Mido (footballer) A.C. Milan Henrikh Mkhitaryan
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