The Italian was particularly responsible for the careers of Erling Haaland, Paul Pogba, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Marco Verratti.
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He was one of the most recognizable names and faces in world football. Mino Raiola died of an illness, his family announced on Twitter on Saturday April 30. Aged 54, the famous Italian agent had emergency surgery last January in Milan for a lung disease. A first announcement of his death was made on Thursday by many international sports media before being denied by the main interested party via Twitter.
—Mino Raiola (@MinoRaiola) April 30, 2022
Having become more and more influential over the course of his career, the player agent was currently managing the career of Paul Pogba, about to leave Manchester United, as well as those of Erling Haaland, Gianluigi Donnarumma and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Born in 1967 in Salerno, the Italian grew up in the Netherlands in a modest family. Quickly entering the world of football in the land of the Oranje, Carmine Raiola, her real name, became responsible for the training center and sports director of the Haarlem club. Due to his dual Italian-Dutch culture, he acts as a mediator in transfers between clubs in the two countries. Mino Raiola is notably associated with the transfer of Dennis Bergkamp, moving from Ajax to Inter.
It was then that he switched to a career as a players’ agent, focusing on his knowledge in Italy and the Netherlands. His first big blow is the transfer of Pavel Nedved to Juventus. He then takes under his wing, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Maxwell and Mido at Ajax. Increasingly known and influential, Mino Raiola will carry out some of the biggest transfers in history with the arrival of Pogba at Manchester United against nearly 110 million euros. Erling Haaland’s agent, he had recently met the clubs interested in the Norwegian nugget.