obituary from
Oliver Meiler, Rome
Mino Raiola spoke six languages, rumor has it seven. But, he once said, he would think in the Campanian dialect. “It’s faster.” Now that Raiola has died at the age of 54 after a serious illness in Milan’s San Raffaele hospital, all Italian newspapers are repeating the quips and anecdotes from the life of football’s controversial “super agent” – as if they were valuable contemporary documents, stuff for the archive.