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Mino Raiola, the most popular representative of the players in the world of football, was admitted to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan. In the last hours, the news of his death had spread, which has been denied from his Twitter account: “My state of health, for those who ask: pissed off because for the second time in 4 months they killed me. Because I can resurrect ”, he reads in Raiola's profile. In January, he denied the news that he had been an emergency operator at the San Raffaele hospital for a lung problem, but his collaborators "spoke of scheduled medical check-ups", thus denying that he had been an emergency operator and that he had been in therapy intensive as some media reported then.
Current health status for those wondering: pissed off for the second time in 4 months they kill me. They also seem capable of resuscitation.
— Mino Raiola (@MinoRaiola) April 28, 2022
The false information about his death despaired Alberto Zangrillo, head of the San Raffaele Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit. "I was outraged by the phone calls from pseudo-journalists who speculate about the life of a man who is fighting," Professor Zangrillo, also a personal doctor of former minister Silvio Berlusconi, told the Italian media.
Mino Raiola (54 years old) is the representative of many football stars, such as Haaland, Ibrahimovic, Pogba, Donnarumma, Lukaku, Verrati and many others. Raiola underwent surgery in January at the San Rafael hospital in Milan for a lung problem, not linked to Covid. His health conditions have worsened in recent months.
Born in Nocera Inferiore, in the Campania region of southern Italy. Shortly after birth, he emigrated with his parents to the Netherlands. Raiola managed to become one of the most powerful representatives of athletes. Specifically he conquered the world of football. Over the years he created a real empire thanks to his footballer representation agency.
The news of the death, later denied, had a great impact in Italy, where he is known as the king of soccer representatives. His skills are always highlighted to weave the plot of negotiations in signings and transfers of players, mediate to make and unmake agreements, trying to get the most advantageous. Astute and intelligent character, Raiola knew how to swim in a world of great ambitions, full of sharks, managing to carve out a leading role as a sports representative. Forbes magazine reported that the figure in the fourth part of the world among international agents, by virtue of a turnover, which in the year 2020 was 84,7 million dollars.
Born in Nocera Inferiore, in the region of Campania, in southern Italy, the son of a mechanic, when he was barely a year old he emigrated with his parents to Haarlem (the Netherlands), “in search of fortune”, according to Mino Raiola. In an interview he described his family background and his early days in the Netherlands: “My mother, Annunziata Cannavacciuolo, was ambitious and proud; my father Mario, idealism. We lived with a baker uncle and, removing the criminal, the little house looked like the set of The Godfather: Ragù, sausage, small shows... The happiest time of my life». Then his parents made their way into the restaurant world: “First a sandwich shop, then a pizzeria, (hence it was called the “pizzaiolo”) then a fancy restaurant. We have won awards. The secret was to use Italian products”.
While helping his parents, Mino Raiola was studying and ended up founding a company, the origin of his entry into the world of football: “I helped my father, who worked seven days a week. From him arendi not to give up. Meanwhile, he was studying law - my mother liked it a lot - and he also played football: in Haarlem, the oldest team in the Netherlands. […] I started working as an intermediary because Dutch customers came to the restaurant and we don't understand the Italian way of doing things. Traders who had ordered goods that never arrived, for example. They told me: Mino, you take care of fixing the problems. I called on the phone, solving problems. That's how I founded a company, Intermezzo”. During his adolescence, Raiola played in the lower teams of Haarlem and then, at 18, he coached the youth, later becoming one of the administrators of that sports society.
About his way of working in the world of soccer, Raiola explained: “I ask the players: 'Do you want to become the best paid or the best?' If they answer me "the best paid", I point to the door, ignoring them The painter who paints a picture for money and not for passion does not sell it. Money is very important, but if you chase it it will never come and over time you end up understanding that there is always someone richer than you”. Often criticized, Mino Raiola didn't mind making enemies: “Manchester's Ferguson has said that he has never hated anyone more than me. That is a great compliment. If you don't have enemies, you haven't done a good job. Normal stuff, everyone does it. Instead, I move the air, I move the dreams. And every once in a while I piss someone off." Those who defend him say of Raiola that his soccer players do not usually abandon him, because with his rustic style he is the perfect lightning rod. Mino Raiola is famous for being an exceptional person in the world of football, among other things because, like many of the players who represent him, "he fills your pockets and saves your face".
