How To Be A Sports Agent

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In its simplest form, a sports agent is an individual or a company who represents a sportsperson. Add the fantastic amount of money sloshing around in professional sport and your basic quotient of human greed and sports representation becomes anything but. Fortunately, Mel Stein - who brokered most of Gazza's career and all of Chris Waddle's - is on hand to guide the layperson and newcomer alike through the tortuous world of marketing, representation and sports law. A practical guide to being a good, honest agent in an often dishonest game.

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As one would expect of a consummate professional, How to be a Sports Agent is a thorough piece of work....much to recommend this book to the person set on becoming an agent or the general reader interested in unearthing the detail behind the nastier headlines * The Birmingham Post *
. Given the opprobrium currently being heaped on his profession, he might have had greater expectations of success with How to be a Tax Inspector, How to be a Grave-robber, or How to be a Juror at the Trial of Saddam Hussein. But sports agency it is, and Stein attacks his task with gusto -- Andrew Baker * The Telegraph *

Author Bio

Mel Stein qualified as a solicitor in 1969 and, after cutting his teeth in the field of entertainment law, began representing sports people in 1980. He acted for the great Geordie trinity of Chris Waddle, Alan Shearer and Paul Gascoigne - Gazza. He is the author of 16 books, most recently a guide to how to complain effectively, cunningly entitled How to Complain. He is a regular broadcaster on Talk Sport, Radio 4, Radio 5 and the TV networks.