FACING THE AUDITORS
For twenty years now, Jean-Pierre Bernès, who was the guest of Face to the listeners , Sunday, on Europe 1 is one of those who incarnate the trade of agent of players in France. But that does not prevent him from taking a very severe look at what has become of his profession in recent years.
"The job of agent today is the mess," says one who manages the interests, including the two coaches teams France, male and female. "There are people who do this job who do not deserve to do it, but it's a job that, for me, is important. (...) It's a job that must be considered, but it's The truth is that today it's a very bad job, but the good ones pay for the bad, and since there are more bad than good, there is a caricature that emerges in public opinion ... "
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There are people who do this job because they see the player as a bank note
Jean-Pierre Bernès regrets that too many people give in to the lure of profit. "Thirty or forty years ago, when we did not know what to do in life, we opened a bar or restaurant, today, often, we want to act as players' agents," he regrets bitterly. "There are people who do this job because they see the player as a bank note, but in Marseille, I often receive sports college students who want to do this job and who ask me for information. when they come out of my office, they seem to have taken a blow on the head because I tell them the reality of the job, its requirements.This is not to discourage, because it is a profession that has its place in the family football, but it must be a profession that is much more regulated.A regulation is needed.It must put rules.
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Jean-Pierre Bernès, who has been in football since the early 1980s, regrets that the experience is not always valued. "I think that to advise, you have to have a certain maturity, a certain knowledge of life, a certain knowledge of everything," he says. "We must not be in a hurry, we can do it when we are young but the best is to integrate structures to learn this job, we can not improvise agent." Today, several training structures exist in France, such as the EAJF, the school of agents of football players, which is located in Neuilly-sur-Seine.