There is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to get good returns by investing in talented soccer players in South Africa, the rest of Africa, and globally, without being either an agent or a soccer player. There are no precedents of this type of investment in South Africa but there definitely are in South America. Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano, the Argentine Internationals, sold their sporting rights to an Iranian third party who was neither an agent or soccer club.

This third party then hired out Carlos Tevez’s rights to the Corinthians Club of Sao Paolo for a sizeable fee. The move was highly successful as Tevez inspired the Sao Paolo club to victory in the Brazilian League Championship. After that the two players were both loaned out to West Ham United of the English Premiership, again for a lucrative fee.

The duo managed to save West Ham from relegation with Carlos Tevez scoring the goal that gave them the crucial victory on the last matchday. The company that owns the two players sporting rights then sold Mascherano outright to Liverpool FC for a GBP18 million and loaned Carlos Tevez to Manchester United for an undisclosed, but assumable lucrative fee. Continue Reading