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'' ` carmine `` mino '' raiola '' ' salerno , italy 4 november 1967 mino raiola
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mino raiola

carmine `` mino '' raiola ; born 4 november 1967 -rrb- is an italian-born dutch football agent representing a number of well known players , including the swedish striker zlatan ibrahimović , french midfielder paul pogba , italian striker mario balotelli , and belgian striker romelu lukaku .
he was also for many years the agent of former czech republic star midfielder pavel nedved .
raiola was born in 1967 in nocera inferiore in the salerno province of southern italy .
he moved to the dutch city of haarlem in 1968 with his parents .
growing up in the netherlands , raiola later worked in his family 's italian restaurant called `` napoli '' and enrolled into law school .
in 1987 , raiola started his own company .
in addition to his business , raiola also focused on a career in football .
at the age of 22 he joined the board of hfc haarlem , a local club .
however , his stint at the club was short .
in his own words , he voluntarily resigned because the rest of the board were too conservative .
after a brief adventure as a player and administrator , however , he remained involved in the football world , this time as a football agent .
raiola started working at sports promotions , a sports agent company .
he assisted in the transfers several high profile dutch players to italian clubs , including afc ajax player bryan roy -lrb- in 1992 to foggia -rrb- , marciano vink -lrb- in 1993 to genoa -rrb- , wim jonk and dennis bergkamp -lrb- both in 1993 to internazionale -rrb- and michel kreek -lrb- in 1994 to padova -rrb- .
after a while he decided to leave the company and start his own business .
his first independent big transfer was pavel nedved 's signing from sparta prague for lazio , following his good performance at the uefa euro 1996 where nedved 's czech republic reached the tournament final .
just after the turn of the century raiola came to ajax with his own business .
it earned him several new clients , including then young stars such as zlatan ibrahimović , mido and maxwell .
on 31 august 2004 , the last day of the summer transfer window , raiola successfully negotiated ibrahimović 's transfer to juventus for 16 million euros .
however , maxwell and zdeněk grygera decided not to renew their contracts with ajax , allowing both players to leave on free transfers .
after these transfers ajax for a long time did no business with raiola .
but even without cooperation from ajax , raiola continued with a string of successful transfers .
he negotiated ibrahimović 's later transfers to internazionale -lrb- in 2006 -rrb- and barcelona -lrb- in 2009 -rrb- .
from 2010 to 2011 raiola was involved in five ac milan transfers -lrb- zlatan ibrahimović , robinho , mark van bommel , emanuelson and dídac vilà -rrb- , even though not all of those were his clients .
today , more than 20 players playing in european leagues are represented by mino raiola .
he currently resides in monaco .
in 2008 , he was involved in two disciplinary hearings instigated by the federazione italiana giuoco calcio -lrb- figc -rrb- for transfer irregularities .
