{"id":25534,"date":"2018-12-14T10:23:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T10:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25534"},"modified":"2018-12-14T10:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T10:23:29","slug":"soccers-super-agents-2-14-billion-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25534","title":{"rendered":"Soccer&#8217;s super agents $2.14 billion business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>They&#8217;re the wheelers and dealers, the people that make football transfers happen &#8212; and they&#8217;re in a lucrative business.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">A report released by world governing body FIFA has revealed that intermediaries or agents have been paid a total of $548 million so far this year across 3,844 international transfers. Since 2013, agents have picked up a total of $2.14 billion.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The report analyzed data from all global football transfers in the past five years, comparing instances when players and clubs had used an agent for a move to take place.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)They&#8217;re the wheelers and dealers, the people that make football transfers happen &#8212; and they&#8217;re in a lucrative business.A report released by world governing body FIFA has revealed that intermediaries or agents have been paid a total of $548 million so far this year across 3,844 international transfers. Since 2013, agents have picked up a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}