The world of football woke up this Saturday with terrible news, due to the death of one of the most important agents, the Italian Mino Raiola; who lost the battle of several months due to a disease in his lungs.
Those responsible for announcing his death were his family, who published a statement through the personal account of the agent who departed from this earthly plane with only 54 years old and with a long journey in the football of the old continent.
“It is with infinite sorrow that we announce the death of Mino, the most extraordinary agent ever. Mino has fought until the last moment with all his strength as he did to defend the footballers. He has written an indelible chapter in the history of modern football. We will always miss him and his project of making the world of football a better place for the players will be carried out with the same passion”, the Raiola family highlighted in their statement.
It is important to highlight that, at the beginning of this week, many international media reported that Raiola had passed away. However, the same agent used his social networks to deny this information, but they never denied that his state of health was very delicate.
“Current state of health for those who wonder: pissed off for the second time in 4 months they kill me. They also seem capable of resuscitating”, wrote the Italian.
Now, Raiola started from the decade of the 90 and since then, there has never been an agent who wrote an impeccable legacy, due to his huge transactions with the most important footballers in European football.
One of his most important recognitions was at the 2016 and 2020 when he received the award for the best agent of the year and was named as the “King of the Market del Fútbol“, all thanks to his important operations throughout his exalting career.
One of those movements that made European football rumble was the transfer of Paul Pogba to Manchester United for an extraordinary figure of 105 million euros; being a record amount for the Italian League.
The unfortunate thing about his departure from this earthly plane is that he will not be present, nor will he stamp his signature on the transfer of Erling Haaland; who is called to break the record of Neymar Jr. to Paris Saint-Germain for 222 million euros.
In addition, it should be noted that Raiola himself worked strategically so that the Norwegian received a large figure for what will be a historic transaction and even more so when it comes to a player who also He is called to be the next king of football, along with Kylian Mbappé.
Apart from representing Paul Pogba and Erling Haaland. Raiola also had in his possession players like Mario Balotelli, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Hirving Lozano, Marco Verratti, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matthijs De Ligt, among others.
In this way, European football bids farewell to one of the most important agents in the world and in the memory of his players, teams and family, the exalting career that the Italian had will endure. In addition to how important it was for everyone in each of their movements.
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