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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, February 27, 1998
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Exploitative soccer agents use players for kickbacks
The Associated Press
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — They lounge by the hotel pool in suits and open-necked shirts, keeping a watchful eye on young soccer players sunbathing in the merciless sun.
Behind their backs, they are labeled "sharks," "hustlers," and even "bad men." Because of their influence in the world's most popular sport, some are regarded with a mixture of fear and respect.
They're here from Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, the Middle East and Britain to watch Africa's top soccer prospects at the African Cup of Nations, staged this year in poor, windswept Burkina Faso.
More than ever, soccer's middlemen are a pipeline for unknown players heading to Europe's top teams.
One of the best-known agents is Lucidio Rubeiro, a middle-aged Portuguese man who amassed a fortune from a lucrative supermarket chain before entering the soccer business.
Rubeiro, who represents players from around the globe, concedes most agents are out to do one thing
They are the soccer agents.
young and often-desperate players.
make money off the skills of
Through recent decades of disaster, misery, coups, disease and famine, soccer has been the major success and spirit-raising force in Africa, a continent that worships the sport. Many young stars accept the first offer they get.
"At one time, all players faced a form of bondage," Rubeiro said. "To some degree that has changed, but African players are still discriminated against."
Unlike American professional sports, where agents represent athletes, soccer agents are middlemen and put deals together for both sides. Often, unsuspecting athletes, many of whom lack education, sign multiyear contracts at low wages.
Some of the more unscrupulous agents recruit reporters to get close to rising stars.
"FIFA-licensed agent from
Parkland seeks media contacts
through Africa," reads a sign out-
side the African Cup press center
in Ouagadougou's Hotel Independence.
Agents, who must deposit a $125,000 fee with FIFA to be registered, often have no legal background.
Although agents jealously guard the names of prospective clients,
among the most talked-about players at this tournament is Togo goalkeeper Abombe Wake, expected to sign with a European team.
Benni McCarthy, a 20-year-old South African forward, was signed by Ajax Amsterdam of the Netherlands last year following the FIFA Under-20 World Championship and has four goals in the Dutch League this season plus two more in the UEFA Cup.
McCarthy, who reportedly got a $1 million, five-year contract from Ajax, had a tournament-leading seven goals going into this weekend's final game.
Although McCarthy is doing well by most standards, most players return home after a few years abroad with little savings.
The fixers, he said, simply link team and player together, take their cut of the money and get out.
"There are two types of agents," Rubeiro said. "Those who help a player in his career and the fixers." The fixers, he said, simply link team and player together, take
An agent's commission is three to 10 percent of the player's salary. Coaches sometimes demand a kickback to close deals.
Skater Kwan charmed crowds
Endorsement offers acting may be in future
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Michelle Kwan is back home, still flashing that million-dollar smile. America will soon see a lot more of it.
Nagano. I got the whole Olympic experience. I took home the silver, which I'm very honored to have done."
It is that smile and Kwan's warm, magnetic personality that probably best explain why she is in such commercial demand despite earning silver instead of gold in the women's figure skating competition at the Winter Olympics.
"It feels great to sleep in my own bed. I have a little jet lag, but I feel pretty good." Kwan said in her first public appearance since arriving in Southern California. "I feel like I accomplished a lot of my dreams in
Kwan, 17.
was favored to win
last week's competition, and led she after the short program, but she was overtaken in the long program by 15-year-old Tara Lipinski.
Those tears Kwan was crying after completing her long program had nothing to do with disappointment, she said. They were tears of joy.
to know I really did it."
"I just couldn't stop crying, it was overwhelming," she said. "I couldn't believe it. I had to pinch myself
The judges, however, went for Lipinski. But Kwan's manager, Shep Goldberg, said it appears his client won't suffer at all in the endorsement world despite the second-place finish.
Two major deals have already been completed, and acting roles may be in Kwan's future, he said.
"What happened in Nagano probably enhanced things, the way she handled herself," he said.
Goldberg said one of the endorsement agreements would be announced in the next week or so, the other in 30 to 60 days. He would not disclose the companies.
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Meanwhile, Kwan will continue training for the World Figure Skating Championships starting March 31 in Minneapolis.
Kwan also indicated she hopes to compete in the 2002 Olympics at Salt Lake City.
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