{"id":612387,"date":"2022-04-28T07:55:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T11:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=612387"},"modified":"2022-04-30T10:22:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T14:22:33","slug":"mino-raiola-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/04\/28\/mino-raiola-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Mino Raiola, Agent of Paul Pogba &#038; Erling Haaland, Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The family of football agent Mino Raiola have announced he has passed away at the age of 54.<\/p>\n<p>Raiola represented the likes of Erling Haaland, Paul Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic &#8211; a huge influence on their stellar careers to date &#8211; as well as many others.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, his family stated: &#8220;Mino fought until the end with the same strength he put on negotiation tables to defend our players. As usual, Mino made us proud and never realised it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mino touched so many lives through his work and wrote a new chapter in the history of modern football. His presence will forever be missed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mino&#8217;s mission of making football a better place for players will continue with the same passion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Mino Raiola Passes Away Aged 54<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xuZWBNA62N\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/xuZWBNA62N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mino Raiola (@MinoRaiola) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MinoRaiola\/status\/1520403579311464449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Raiola&#8217;s Notorious Career<\/h3>\n<p>Mino Raiola is best known as the agent of some of the top football players in the world. Names like Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Paul Pogba, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/02\/24\/romelu-lukaku-saga-takes-further-turns\/\" target=\"_self\">Romelu Lukaku<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/04\/19\/erling-haaland-manchester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Erling Haaland<\/a> are just some of the names associated with him. Chances are if you&#8217;ve heard of a major transfer over the past decade then Mino Raiola&#8217;s name was attached as he negotiated top prices for some of the world&#8217;s best and most in-demand players. He most notably was the man behind Paul Pogba&#8217;s massive switch from Juventus to Manchester United, which was at the time a world record transfer fee for a player, although has since been eclipsed by major transfers like Kylian Mbappe.<\/p>\n<p>His passing is likely to send shockwaves through the footballing world as it potentially leaves a number of in-demand players with a change in representation ahead of the summer transfer window where a number of massive deals are done. How this affects the players under his brand remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>Last Word on Sports would like to join the footballing world in sending condolences to the friends, family, and colleagues of one of football&#8217;s most recognisable names, Mino Raiola.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"NHCaxzB7QshtIXYqCmk2IA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/963377834\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'NHCaxzB7QshtIXYqCmk2IA',sig:'lHffPFBLlb4D61dt4nldivhezMQU5KHnYs9LChwNi38=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'963377834',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of football agent Mino Raiola have announced he has passed away at the age of 54. Raiola represented the likes of Erling Haaland, Paul Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic &#8211; a huge influence on their stellar careers to date &#8211; as well as many others. In a statement, his family stated: &#8220;Mino fought until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":612436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[3000],"class_list":["post-612387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-mino-raiola"],"modified_by":"Jordan Hackett, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}