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Mino Raiola Cause Of Death, Biography, Early Life, Agent Career

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Who Is Mino Raiola

Mino Raiola is an Italian football agent who has previously represented Paul Pogba, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Marco Verratti, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matthijs de Ligt, Erling Haaland, Mario Balotelli, and Pavel Nedvd.

Early Life

Raiola was born in the southern Italian town of Nocera Inferiore in 1967. A year later, he and his parents relocated to Haarlem, Netherlands. Raiola spent his early years working as a server in his father’s successful restaurant in the Netherlands, where he grew up.  At the same time, he finished high school and enrolled in the Faculty of Law at a university for two years.  He began his football career with HFC Haarlem’s young squad, but retired at the age of 18 in 1987 to become the youth team’s coach.

 

Career

Raiola stayed in the football industry, this time as a football agent, after a brief stint as a player and administrator. He began his career as a sports agent for Sports Promotions, where he assisted in the transfers of several high-profile Dutch players to Italian clubs, including Ajax player Bryan Roy (to Foggia in 1992), Marciano Vink (to Genoa in 1993), Wim Jonk and Dennis Bergkamp (both to Internazionale in 1993), and Michel Kreek (to Internazionale in 1994). (in 1994 to Padua). However, after a while, he decided to leave the corporation and create his own company. Pavel Nedvd joined Lazio from Sparta Prague after an excellent performance for the Czech Republic at UEFA Euro 1996, where Nedvd’s team reached the final.

Raiola represents around 20 players who compete in European leagues. He was a Monaco resident. In 2008, he was the subject of two disciplinary proceedings by the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC) for transfer irregularities as part of an Italian government-led inquiry into professional football.

Raiola made a reported €25 million from Paul Pogba’s €105 million sale to Manchester United in August 2016, and then bought the former Miami house of one of America’s most renowned mob bosses, Al Capone, for €9 million in September 2016.

Raiola was banned from functioning as an agency representative for three months by the Italian Football Federation on May 8, 2019, for unspecified reasons, while his cousin Vincenzo Raiola was banned for two months. [13] After the FIFA Disciplinary Committee digested the Italian federation’s rulings, the suspensions were extended globally on May 10th. [14] Raiola and his cousin won their appeal to the Federal Court of Appeal in Italy on June 13, 2019, which resulted in the three-month ban being lifted.

Raiola was one of a number of high-profile football agents, including Jorge Mendes and Jonathan Barnett, who threatened FIFA with legal action when the anticipated transfer payment cap was announced on January 22, 2020.

Mino Raiola’s Cause Of Death

Raiola was admitted to San Raffaele Hospital in Milan in January 2022. Raiola’s business partner and the doctor who was treating him both stated in April 2022 that Raiola was “fighting” for his life.  Several news sites reported his death on April 28, which he later denied in a social media post, writing, “Second time in 4 months they kill me.”

Raiola’s official Twitter account confirmed on April 30, 2022, that Raiola had died at the age of 54, with a statement from Raiola’s family in both English and Italian.

According to sources, Mino Raiola died of pulmonary disease.

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