She is a lawyer, Brazilian and today at the head of a company that has assets of more than a billion dollars. How did you manage to portray the Manchester City star? The lawyer tells his story.
Erling Haaland will realize one of the dreams that all footballers in the world have: he will play in the Champions League final on June 10. And if his side Manchester City manage to stay with Orejona, the shot-stopper will be a fixed contender to win the Ballon d’Or this season.
But the player who threatens to end the reign of Lionel Messi, would not have arrived where he has risen without Rafaela Pimenta: his manager and heir to the empire left by representative Mino Raiola, after his death in April last year.
The Brazilian, who met the agent in 2004 during an Italian visit to the South American country, graduated as a lawyer and was at the time a professor of international law at the University of Sao Paulo. However, he always wanted to participate in the world of football and did not hesitate to accept the European businessman’s offer.
“I met him at a meeting where he wanted to know how football works in Brazil. The first time we met, we fought, and I think that’s exactly what led us to work together. “Recalls the one mentioned in an interview on the Spanish portal Mundo Deportivo.
Today he is the head of One Sarl and so well manages the careers of Haaland, Pogba, De Ligt, Verratti and Ibrahimovic, among other things, he claims that there are still gender biases against him. “If Margaret Thatcher had been a representative, they would have questioned her as well. He could rule a country, but not be an agent. In football, there are many men who think only they can do certain things “, he assures in dialogue with Marca.
Without social media and managing a portfolio of over a billion dollars, Pimenta is an enemy of her students who buy luxury cars and waste time on their Instagram accounts. “If you think that by making a lot of money you can buy a Ferrari and walk around Monaco, you are becoming an idiot. You can’t spend all day staring at Instagram and checking how many followers you have “, sentence.
For this reason, his business is based on providing the player with an integral bond, where not only high-value contracts are signed. “Going here is like going to the supermarket or a clothing store, where you can find a jersey, a t-shirt, shoes… and here the footballer chooses whatever he wants to take with him. Obviously, you are not going to offer a 15-year-old player the same as a 30-year-old player.
And although she is against recruiting children for the industry, one of her latest recruits is only 10 years old. “Today it’s done, I don’t agree to carry such a small baby, but why am I doing it? If I don’t do it, someone else will. They don’t think money with a 10-year-old, up to 22, it’s just an investment,” he explains.
But this is not the only business he has in mind, since he took advantage of the duel that the visit of the citizens to Madrid had, to visit the facilities of the Merengue and begin to embark on women’s football. How did that happen? Misa Rodríguez, Esther González and Carla Camacho, three players of the Hispanic giant, are already in their corral.
However, Haaland continues to be his big star and he’s sure he’ll sweep all the marks. “He is very calm in his professional and personal life, he has quality, today he is in the right place, with the right team and the right coach. In Brazil, they say the sky is the limit. I think it will break all records, ”concludes the strongest woman in the world of football.
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