Born in 1967 in Italy, in Campania, Carmine Raiola, his full name, grew up in the Netherlands, in Haarlem, where his family moved when he was one year old. As a teenager, he worked in the family restaurant but above all began to make himself indispensable in the local football club, of which he became a leader in the early 1990s.
Gradually, he became interested in player transfers, to the Netherlands and then to Italy. In particular, he participates in the transaction bringing Dennis Bergkamp from Ajax Amsterdam to Inter in 1993 and then decided to go solo. The transfer of Pavel Nedved at Lazio Rome, in 1996, is one of the first big shots of this man who speaks seven languages.
