Mino Raiola is an Italian football agent known.
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Mino Raiola is known for representing a decent number of well-known players including Paul Pogba, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Marco Verratti, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matthijs de Ligt, Erling Haaland, Mario Balotelli, and formerly Pavel Nedvěd.
Mino Raiola did play football for the youth team of HFC Haarlem, but stopped at age 18 in 1987 to become head of the youth team.
After a brief venture as a player and administrator, Raiola decided to remain involved football, but this time, as an agent.
Mino Raiola began working at Sports Promotions, a sports agent company, and assisted in the transfers of several high-profile Dutch players to Italian clubs, including Ajax player Bryan Roy (in 1992 to Foggia), Marciano Vink (in 1993 to Genoa), Wim Jonk and Dennis Bergkamp (both in 1993 to Internazionale) and Michel Kreek (in 1994 to Padua).
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However, after some time, Mino Raiola decided to leave the company and start his own business.
Mino Raiola’s first independent big transfer was Pavel Nedvěd’s signing from Sparta Prague for Lazio following his impressive performance at UEFA Euro 1996, where Nedvěd’s Czech Republic reached the final.
A list of Mino Raiola’s clients (past and present) include;
- Erling Haaland
- Zdeněk Grygera
- Zlatan Ibrahimović
- Felipe Mattioni
- Mario Balotelli
- Maxwell
- Pavel Nedvěd
- Xavi Simons
- Kerlon
- Henrikh Mkhitaryan
- Paul Pogba
- Étienne Capoue
- Blaise Matuidi
- Gregory van der Wiel
- Gianluigi Donnarumma
- Matthijs de Ligt
- Moise Kean
- Lorenzo Insigne
- Marco Verratti
- Hirving Lozano
- Romelu Lukaku
- Donyell Malen
- Jesse Lingard


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