For a top deal with RB's Upamecano: Bayern have to convince Rosa

Friday 25th December 2020

For a top deal with RB's Upamecano
Bayern have to convince Rosa

Dayot Upamecano is in great demand among the top football clubs. FC Bayern should also want the services of the defender. The only way to get a contract is through Raquel Rosa. The player advisor has received the highest praise from her boss – and has already seen a lot.

Raquel Rosa was right in the conflict of emotions at the 2014 World Cup semi-finals in Belo Horizonte. After all, her native Brazil and her second home Germany met, and the team of the German Football Association (DFB) also won 7-1. But Rosa was in the service of the DFB, as an interpreter at the press conferences.

"I asked myself whether I should go to the final training session because I am Brazilian and could be mistaken for a spy," said the 39-year-old in the "L'Equipe" interview, "those responsible said to me: Raquel, you come with me, nobody doubts your loyalty. " And the greatest moment followed after the final at the Maracana Stadium and the 1-0 triumph over Argentina. "To be able to touch the World Cup in my hometown Rio, that was an incredible experience", emphasized Rosa.

But the work for the DFB and the Bundesliga club RB Leipzig – before she was already working for TSG Hoffenheim and thinks very big of the then 1899 coach Ralf Rangnick ("A Visionary") – was for the multilingual Rosa (German, English , Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and French) only a stopover. For more than two years she has been working for the player consulting agency Sports Total from Cologne. Her boss Volker Struth is enthusiastic: "Raquel is an absolute football expert, well-versed in economic issues, has a talent for languages ​​and has an excellent network. She is a trump card for our agency."

"I am hard of hearing"

Rosa seems to have succeeded in creating the perfect triad of football-business-languages. She is totally grounded and still remembers exactly how it was in her childhood. "I immediately bought candy with my pocket money because I knew they would be more expensive the next day. I loved swapping and bargaining with my friends," she said of her constraints at the time, which were based on Brazilian inflation .

When she was eleven, she emigrated to Germany with her parents – the father is a lawyer, the mother studied social worker. Her motto: "If my parents have prevailed in Brazil, I will do it in Germany, where it is much easier." Said and done. Finally, after graduating from high school, he studied economics. "I had to learn business English. That's why I jumped into languages," said Rosa, and reported frankly: "Since I am hard of hearing, I had to repeat all the words and sentences a thousand times because of the pronunciation, and write the words and pronunciation down. But I learned how important languages ​​are. " The effort was worth it.

In Struth's agency, she is currently mainly responsible for the French market, mainly looking after the Frenchman Dayot Upamecano from Leipzig. The 22-year-old is full of praise for his new agent and explains his trust in "L'Equipe" as follows: "Neither of us has an easy life. She is hard of hearing, I stuttered. But if we want to achieve something, we are both stubborn – each in his own way. "

Stubbornness could pay off because Upamecano is hotly courted. Among others from FC Bayern, who will have to compensate for the departures of David Alaba and Jérôme Boateng after this season. The Frenchman is apparently the preferred player for the German record champions. A big negotiating task for Raquel Rosa, the passionate player advisor.