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Jorge Paulo Agostinho Mendes (born 7 January 1966) is a Portuguese football agent. He is registered with the Portuguese Football Federation and heads the GestiFute company, founded in 1996.
Jan 5, 2023 · Mendes has been named Best Agent of the Year at the Globe Soccer Awards ten times. Outside of football, he represents Formula 1 star Charles Leclerc , triple jump champion Patricia Mamona, surfer Frederico Morais, tennis player João Sousa and the cyclist João Almeida.
Apr 12, 2024 · As his agent, Mendes managed Ronaldo's legendary career through his moves to Real Madrid in 2009, Juventus in 2018, his return to Man Utd in 2021, as well as his move to Al-Nassr in the Saudi Pro League.
Oct 11, 2017 · Jorge Mendes is the Arachne of the footballing world, spinning his webs across Europe and beyond for the past decade and in the process assuming the mantle of super-agent. Born in Lisbon in Jan uary 1966, Mendes was brought up in modest surroundings, living in a housing development meant for employees of Petrogal where his father worked.
Mendes, then aged 30, was a failed semi-professional footballer in Portugal, and then became a DJ, video shop owner and, eventually, a night club owner. Nuno - a goalkeeper trying to breathe life into his career - became his first client.
Sep 16, 2016 · Jorge Mendes is one of football’s most powerful men, whose uncanny ability to foresee - and now influence - some of the planet’s biggest transfer deals has made him bigger than many...
May 26, 2016 · Cristiano Ronaldo, Jose Mourinho and dozens of others rely on him. He determines the fortunes of the world’s top players and clubs. But just who is Jorge Mendes?
Jul 16, 2015 · Influential agent Jorge Mendes is viewed with suspicion by much of football but, in Portugal, he is regarded as a national hero, writes Andy Brassell.
Nov 20, 2019 · Jorge Mendes — super-agent, fixer, master negotiator, string-puller extraordinaire — could be described as anything but “normal”. Slickness personified, perhaps. An “awesome human...
Sep 5, 2014 · Nearly 20 years ago, in his nightclub in the windy northern Portuguese coastal town of Caminha, Jorge Mendes became a football agent. Using his only assets – charm and a modest career as a semi...
