Jörg Neubauer is dead. The well-known player's agent once brought Sebastian Deisler and Jerome Boateng to Bayern and most recently took care of Leon Goretzka.
Munich - The football world mourns the loss of one of the most renowned player advisors.
Jörg Neubauer died on Thursday morning at the age of 59 in his finca on Mallorca, reports the
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The well-known counselor suffered from a brain tumor that was diagnosed a year and a half ago.
Recently Neubauer had been very limited, had paralysis in his hand.
Neuerbauer therefore withdrew from the consultancy business, most recently only taking care of the German national players Kevin Trapp from Eintracht Frankfurt and Leon Goretzka from FC Bayern in the Bundesliga.
Death of transfer genius Jörg Neubauer: Player advisors once brought Boateng and Deisler to Bayern
Neubauer looks back on a successful consultancy.
Through his mediation, Christoph Metzelder and world star Raul came from Real Madrid to FC Schalke - a real coup.
Neubauer also had the two world champions Sami Khedira and Jerome Boateng under his wing.
Khedira started his world career at Real Madrid.
Boateng referred Neubauer to FC Bayern via Manchester City ten years ago.
Not to forget: In 2002 he arranged the transfer of Sebastian Deisler from Hertha to Bayern.
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