In memory of Mino Raiola, a legend in the world of football that gave birth to great players in the world.

In memory of Mino Raiola, a legend in the world of football that gave birth to great players in the world.

When he heard the news that Mino Raiola was in critical condition in hospital, Zlatan Ibrahimovic immediately left the AC Milan training session and rushed to the hospital. Zlatan Ibrahimovic was one of the witnesses and relatives who met Mino Raiola at the end of his life.

As we all know Mino Raiola passed away Saturday, April 30, 2022, the sad news was conveyed directly by the family through Mino Raiola's personal social media account. According to his family Mino Raiola has been battling a serious illness since last January, doctor

Alberto Zangrilo from the San Raffaele De Milan hospital said that Raiola was struggling to survive, unfortunately fate said otherwise Mino Raiola died at the age of 54. When Zlatan Ibrahimovic's funeral procession became one of Mino Raiola's clients who were present to take him to his final resting place, it was discovered Raiola's funeral ceremony was held on Thursday 5 May 2022 at the Charles Church in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

Both Mino Raiola and Zlatan Ibrahimovic are not just colleagues, their relationship is not even just an agent and a player. More than that, Mino Raiola is a special person and has a special place in Zlatan Ibrahimovic's heart.

Mino Raiola was born in Nocera Inferiore in the southeast of the city of Naples, Province of Salerno, Italy, on November 4, 1967. When he was only a year old, Mino Raiola's family moved to Utah, Haarlem, Netherlands, where his father founded a pizza restaurant franchise called Napoli.

Mino Raiola then spent most of his youth in his family's restaurant, at first he was just a dishwasher then became a restaurant waiter and occasionally looked after the cash register. Many dealings with customers made Mino Raiola's communication skills honed, he was then trusted by his father to handle all complaints related to banks, property owners and suppliers.

That's where his negotiating talent began to sharpen sharply, in addition to honing his knowledge at a restaurant owned by his family Mino Raiola was known to have received legal education for two years, but he did not feel at home and considered it a waste of time.

Mino Raiola's own football career began when he was with the FC Harlecth Junior team, but at the age of 18 Mino Raiola quit and uniquely he later became the head of the Junior team in 1987 before being appointed as Technical Director of the Club when he was only nineteen years old.

However, Mino Raiola's ending at the club is the same as his unfinished legal education, Mino Raiola does not feel at home and can't stand the club officials who are considered very conservative, Mino Raiola is indeed a person who is reluctant to be regulated and likes to rebel, despite his ability to negotiate which he trained while working at his family's pizza restaurant led him to become a charismatic super agent.

Mino Raiola's career as a football agent began when he joined a sports promotions agency, where he smoothed the transfer of several Dutch league players to the Italian Serie A league. One of the most influential was the transfer of Dennis Bergkamp to Inter Milan in the 1993 season, but as before, Mino Raiola did not feel at home and left the sports promotion agency and formed his own agency.

Mino Raiola's name then soared when he brought Pavel Nedved from Sparta Prague to Lazio after his slick appearance at Euro 1996, Mino Raiola also smoothed Pavel Nedved's move to Juventus in 2001, where at the club Pavel Nedved became a Legend and won the Ballon d'Or 2003.

Meanwhile, the beginning of Mino Raiola's closeness with Zlatan Ibrahimovic began when Ibra was still playing at Ajax Amsterdam, which was around 2001. At that time Zlatan Ibrahimovic was one of the most talented young players in the academy and was known to want to immediately leave Ajax Amsterdam, Mino Raiola and Zlatan Ibrahimovic actually has something in common, both are stubborn and difficult to approach.

Mino Raiola himself is a typical agent who does not like to meet directly with the player he is after, Ooeh because when trying to hook Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Mino Raiola uses an intermediary, namely Zlatan Ibrahimovic's best friend, Maxwell. However, Zlatan Ibrahimovic did not like this method, the Swedish bomber asked Maxwell for Mino Raiola to come personally to meet him.

But what was Mino Raiola's answer to this person named Zlatan Ibrahimovic, to hell with him, the answer actually made Zlatan Ibrahimovic interested in the two and then they were scheduled to meet in Amsterdam. But Zlatan Ibrahimovic was surprised by Mino Raiola, described as a mafioso Mino Raiola came wearing only jeans and a Nike shirt that covered his distended stomach.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic was immediately silenced when Mino Raiola handed him four different pages Check out the statistics of Europe's top strikers. Andriy Shevchenko 25 games 23 goals, Filippo Inzaghi 27 games 25 goals, Christian Vieri 24 games 23 goals, then Ibrahimovic 21 games 4 goals.

He said how can I sell you if you have these statistics, says Ibrahimovic in his book I am Zlatan, the chat slapped Ibrahimovic. No one had ever said something like that before, so it didn't take long for him to be attracted and want to immediately work with Mino Raiola.

Mino Raiola himself did not spoil Ibra, on the contrary at the beginning of their friendship Mino Raiola was quite loud and lectured Zlatan Ibrahimovic a lot, even he told Zlatan Ibrahimovic that his statistics were rubbish.

If you are going to work with me, you must do as I say. Sell ​​your car, your watch and start training three times as hard, because your stats are rubbish.

What happened next was history, Zlatan Ibrahimovic transformed into one of the most dangerous and most accomplished strikers in the history of football at every club he played for. Zlatan Ibrahimovic also almost always wins a trophy, most recently Zlatan ibrahimovic Ibrahimovic has just helped AC Milan win the Scudetto.

To Milan TV Zlatan Ibrahimovic openly dedicated this season's Serie A trophy to the late Mino Raiola.

I dedicate this win to Mino Raiola, who sadly is no longer by my side, this is the first trophy I have won without him.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic also explained that Mino Raiola was the one who pushed him to return to Milan at the end of December 2019.

He was the one who said I have to go back to AC Milan and help the club and bring it back to where it belongs, he said only I can do this. I dedicate this victory to him, it is reported that if Ibra does not renew his contract at Milan, he will be prepared to become a frontman and player agent to replace Mino Raiola.

This is proof of how special Zlatan Ibrahimovic's relationship with Mino Raiola is, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is just a few of Mino Raiola's many masterpieces in the world of football. As we know Mino Raiola is also an agent for many star-labeled players, namely Paul Pogba, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Marco Verratti, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matthijs de Ligt, Erling Haaland, and Mario Balotelli and many more of the players he has managed.

Tens or maybe hundreds of millions of Euros have Mino Raiola collected through commission money, most recently one of his clients Erling Haaland has just moved from Borrussia Dortmund after Manchester City redeemed him for 51.1 million Pounds. But the actual amount that Manchester City spent to sign Haaland was much more. The Athletic and Forbes estimate Mino Raiola to receive a commission of £34 million.

While when smoothing the move of Paul Pogba to Manchester United it was reported that Mino Raiola made 25 million Euros, it cannot be denied that Mino Raiola is indeed a controversial player agent.

In May 2019 the Italian football federation and FIFA disciplinary committee once banned him from acting as a player agent for three months for undisclosed reasons, in June 2019 Mino Raiola appealed to the Italian Federal court, he won and the ban was lifted.

Besides being controversial, Mino Raiola is also a figure that is difficult to beat, but that is his strength so it is not surprising that he is able to tame a lot of naughty players in his agency. That's Mino Raiola regardless of the version he ever made, the figure of Mino Raiola is a legend in the world of football even though the world still has Jorge Mendez or Kia Joorabchian, but the only person who deserves the title of super agent is Mino Raiola.

On the one hand Mino Raiola is an arrogant and very annoying agent but, on the other hand he is a friend and mentor to his players. That's why even though he is hated by some legends and club officials and even blacklisted from certain clubs, he is so respected and loved by his players.

That's why the death of Mino Raiola should be a sorrow for football, no one will ever be able to compete with the character and charisma of a Mino Raiola.

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