{"id":16685,"date":"2022-04-30T12:01:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T16:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/04\/30\/super-agent-mino-raiola-dead-at-54\/"},"modified":"2022-04-30T12:01:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T16:01:19","slug":"super-agent-mino-raiola-dead-at-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/04\/30\/super-agent-mino-raiola-dead-at-54\/","title":{"rendered":"Super agent Mino Raiola dead at 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Widely recognised football agent Mino Raiola has sadly passed away, it has been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Reports were of course rampant across the media earlier this week that Raiola had been pronounced dead, only for the representative of some of world football\u2019s biggest names to release a statement, refuting the news:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Current health status for the ones wondering: pissed off second time in 4 months they kill me. Seem also able to ressuscitate.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mino Raiola (@MinoRaiola) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MinoRaiola\/status\/1519657935193923584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Raiola, however, remained in altogether poor health, confined to the hospital across the last 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>And, unfortunately, on Saturday, word of his passing has been confirmed by the Salerno native\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>In a post across Raiola\u2019s social media platforms, those closest to the \u2018super agent\u2019 released a statement, reading, in full, as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn infinite sorrow, we share the passing of the most caring and amazing football agent that ever was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMino 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>\u201cMino 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>\u201cMino\u2019s mission of making football a better place for players will continue with the same passion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thank everybody for the huge amount of support received during these difficult times and ask for respect to the privacy of family and friends in this moment of grief.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xuZWBNA62N\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xuZWBNA62N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mino Raiola (@MinoRaiola) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MinoRaiola\/status\/1520403579311464449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Raiola\u2019s list of clientele included the likes of Paul Pogba, Erling Haaland, Matthijs de Ligt and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/features\/player-ratings-fan-reaction-more-much-changed-liverpool-edge-out-newcastle-to-go-top-of-premier-league\/\">Player ratings, fan reaction &amp; more: Much-changed Liverpool edge out Newcastle to go top of Premier League<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/how-many-all-english-champions-league-finals-have-there-been\/\">How many all-English Champions League finals have there been?<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Widely recognised football agent Mino Raiola has sadly passed away, it has been confirmed. Reports were of course rampant across the media earlier this week that Raiola had been pronounced dead, only for the representative of some of world football\u2019s biggest names to release a statement, refuting the news: Current health status for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-16685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}