Mino Raiola

Carmine "Mino" Raiola is a former former pizza restaurateur, Raiola is currently the agent of Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic^[1] and Italian striker Mario Balotelli,^[2] and he was for many years the agent of former Czech Republic star midfielder Pavel Nedved.^[3]

He currently resides in Monaco.

In 2008, he was involved in two discipline hearing of Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC) for transfer irregularity.^[4][5][6][7]

Clients

• Zdeněk Grygera (2009–present^[8])
• Zlatan Ibrahimović (2003^[9][10] - present)
• Martin Jol (football manager)
• Felipe Mattioni (2008^[11] - present)
• Mario Balotelli (2010^[12] - present)
• Maxwell (2009^[13] - present)
• Pavel Nedved (2003^[3][9] - present)
• Kerlon Moura Souza (2007^[14] - present)
• Mark van Bommel (2010–present)
• Marvin Zeegelaar (2009–present)
• Oussama Assaidi (2011–present)
• Marek Hamsik (?–present)

Raiola has also represented clubs, negotiating transfer deals involving

• Dennis Bergkamp
• Robinho
• Marciano Vink
• Bryan Roy
• Michel Kreek
• Wim Jonk

Selection of transfer deals brokered

Date	Player	New club	Previous club	Transfer sum
Winter of 1988	Frank Rijkaard	A.C. Milan	Sporting CP	Unknown
Summer of 1993	Dennis Bergkamp	Internazionale Milano FC	Ajax	£12 million[15]
Summer of 2001	Pavel Nedved	Juventus	Lazio	€41 million[16]
August 2004	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Juventus	Ajax	€16 million[17]
August 2006	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Internazionale Milano FC	Juventus	€24.8 million[18]
July 2009	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Barcelona	Internazionale Milano FC	€46 million[19]
August 2010	Robinho	A.C. Milan	Manchester City	€15 million[20]
August 2010	Mario Balotelli	Manchester City	Internazionale Milano FC	£24 million[21]
August 2010	Zlatan Ibrahimović	A.C. Milan	Barcelona	Loan (€24m)

References

1. ^ [1] Expensive Divorce for Barcelona, Ibrahimovic by Gabriele Marcotti, 29 August 2010 on The Wall Street Journal
2. ^ [2] Eurozone: Balotelli the loser in fight with Mourinho by Pete Jenson, 20 March 2010 on The Independent
3. ^ ^{a b} [3] Nedved is Ferguson's big target by Daniel Taylor, 25 April 2003 on The Guardian
4. ^ "COMUNICATO UFFICIALE N. 34/CDN (2008–09)" (PDF). FIGC. 6 November 2008. http://www.figc.it/Assets/contentresources_2/ContenutoGenerico/28.$plit/C_2_ContenutoGenerico_19934_StrilloComunicatoUfficiale_lstAllegati_Allegato_0_upfAllegato.pdf. Retrieved 13 June 2011. 
5. ^ "COMUNICATO UFFICIALE N. 60/CGF" (PDF). FIGC. 6 November 2008. http://www.figc.it/Assets/contentresources_2/ContenutoGenerico/35.$plit/C_2_ContenutoGenerico_19935_StrilloComunicatoUfficiale_lstAllegati_Allegato_0_upfAllegato.pdf. Retrieved 13 June 2011. 
6. ^ "COMUNICATO UFFICIALE N. 84/CGF" (PDF). FIGC. 19 December 2008. http://www.figc.it/Assets/contentresources_2/ContenutoGenerico/61.$plit/C_2_ContenutoGenerico_20177_StrilloComunicatoUfficiale_lstAllegati_Allegato_0_upfAllegato.pdf. Retrieved 13 June 2011. 
7. ^ "Agent Regulation (Old Edition)" (in Italian). FIGC. ca. 2007. http://www.figc.it/Assets/contentresources_2/ContenutoGenerico/36.$plit/C_2_ContenutoGenerico_3818_lstSezioni_numSezione0_lstCapitoli_numCapitolo0_upfFileUpload_it.pdf. Retrieved 13 June 2011. 
8. ^ "Sporting briefs". Times of Malta. 2004-08-31. http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090817/sport/sporting-briefs. Retrieved 2010-09-04. 
9. ^ ^{a b} "Reals bud på Zlatan - en bluff (in Swedish)". Times of Malta. 2005-05-24. http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/internationell/italien/article288529.ab. Retrieved 2010-09-04. 
10. ^ "Juventus nästa för Zlatan". Sydsvenskan. 2004-09-01. http://www.sydsvenskan.se/sport/article77358/Juventus-nasta-for-Zlatan.html. Retrieved 2010-09-04. 
11. ^ "Carmine Raiola owns Felipe" (Press release). .imscouting.com. 2008-11-30. http://www.imscouting.com/global-news-article/carmine-raiola-owns-felipe/723/. Retrieved 2010-09-04. 
12. ^ "Mino Raiola will be the next agent of Mario Balotelli" (Press release). mario-balotelli.info. 2010-03-14. http://www.mario-balotelli.info/mino-raiola-will-be-the-next-agent-of-mario-balotelli/. Retrieved 2010-09-04. 
13. ^ "AC Milan planning Inter raid for Maxwell". tribalfootball.com. 2009-03-16. http://www.tribalfootball.com/ac-milan-planning-inter-raid-maxwell-232851. Retrieved 2010-09-04. 
14. ^ "Empresário de Kerlon ataca e chama Emerson Leão de "burro" (in Portugese)". Folha.com. 2007-09-20. http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/esporte/ult92u330050.shtml. Retrieved 2010-09-04. 
15. ^ Dennis Bergkamp - The Iceman Website
16. ^ Nedved: I can retire happy
17. ^ "Operations concerning Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Fabrizio Miccoli registration rights". Juventus. 2004-08-31. http://www.juventus.com/site/filesite/finance/comunicatipricesensitive/31_ago_2004_eng.pdf. Retrieved 2010-09-04. 
18. ^ "ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC SIGNS FOR INTER". Internazionale. 2006-08-10. http://www.inter.it/aas/news/reader?L=en&N=23553. Retrieved 2009-07-26. 
19. ^ Ibrahimovic signs five-year contract. . FCBarcelona.cat (FC Barcelona). 2009-07-27. http://www.fcbarcelona.cat/web/english/noticies/futbol/temporada09-10/07/n090727107758.html. Retrieved 2009-07-27. 
20. ^ "English Premier League spending tumbles". BBC News. 31 August 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11137613. 
21. ^ "Man City complete Balotelli deal". BBC News. 13 August 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_city/8910570.stm. 

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