The “famous” players’ agent, Italian Mino Raiola, dies at the age of 54, after an operation he underwent earlier this year.
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Famous business agent Mino Raiola dies
The famous Italian players’ agent, Mino Raiola, died today, Thursday, at the age of 54.
Raiola is one of the most famous players’ agents. Among the current players, he was entrusted by Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Pogba, Haaland and others.
Before his death, Raiola underwent surgery last January at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, and he should have remained under health surveillance, according to the newspaper “La Gazzetta dello Sport”.
Mino Raiola was born in Italy in 1967, and served in his position at the end of the 1980s. His current and former clients include Dennis Bergkamp, Robinho, Balotelli, De Ligt, Donnarumma and Moise Kean.
⚽???? With Raiola one of the best soccer agents on the world scene is leaving: he had been practicing as such since the 80s, always with players ???? https://t.co/SU9eCpZKn9
– BRAND (@brand) April 28, 2022
Raiola immigrated to Holland as a child. He played with the youth team of “HFC Haarlem”. He was known for negotiating the transfer of the then young Dutch striker, Dennis Bergkamp, to Inter Milan from Ajax.
Raiola was one of the most underrated personalities in the world of football, and was known to be a tough negotiator. In the recent transfer markets, his name appeared strongly, especially after he started his work with Erling Haaland.
Raiola is included in Forbes’ list of the richest. In recent years, he, along with other agents such as Jorge Mendes and Jonathan Barnett, created an association of players’ representatives that was involved in a dispute with FIFA.