Inside the World of a Football Agent

In the forward 2021, FIFA will significantly innovate the figure of one of the most important protagonists of the football world: the football agent. This improvement will involve all 211 National Federations that will have to comply with the new agents' regulation. An innovation that will further change the table of a professional figure, formally born with the entry into force of the first FIFA regulation on players' agents of June 1, 1995 and which saw, with the reform of April 1, 2015 wanted by Joseph Blatter , the ex-president of FIFA, a real "deregulation". Inside the world of a Football Agent aims to provide a practical guide on how to access this profession for all aspiring agents; it also provides a series of practical cases, experienced first-hand by the author, that will help the readers to immerse themselves in the reality of a football agent that interacts with presidents, CEO, sports directors, supporters, footballers and their families. In an ever-increasing need for professionalization and with an increasingly stringent technicality of the subject, the author, thanks to his background in representing footballers as a co-founder of the IAFA (Italian Association of Football Agents), presents a clear analysis of the current international regulation and its latest regulatory innovations. The audience for the book is represented by all the current or aspiring professionals involved in the football industry: from football agents who want to keep up to date with the latest legislation, to aspiring agents, sports directors or media, who want to understand what is often behind a "yes or no" in a complicated transfer negotiation. The book will be also of interest to graduate schools of business, sports, marketing, and MBA programs in law with a focus on football law.