Jorge Mendes: Super Agent with a $100 Million Net Worth
Jorge Mendes, a Portuguese soccer agent, has a net worth of $100 million. He has negotiated over $1.2 billion in contracts for his clients, bringing $100 million in commission back to the company he leads, Gestifute, in a typical year.
As the head of Gestifute, founded in 1996, Mendes has registered with the Portuguese Football Federation and represented top athletes such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Jose Mourinho, David de Gea, Diego Costa, Joao Felix, James Rodriguez, and more. He has been called a super agent, and has been named the Best Agent of the Year from 2010 to 2015 at the Globe Soccer Awards.
Mendes started out as a soccer player, worked as a DJ and ran a video rental store before signing his first agent deal in 1996 for Nuno. He became an agent for the Wolverhampton Wanderers and later worked with Swansea City. Mendes oversaw the transfer of Ronaldo from Sporting CP to Manchester City in 2003 for 12.24 million pounds.
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