Born in 1944 in the province of Naples (Italy), Antonio Caliendo starts working as an agent for the publishing house De Agostini when he is very young. Then, a few years later, he establishes his own publishing-house (I.N.E.I.). He invents the school diaries about sports, and publishes a few handbooks about great sport champions of the 70’s, among the others the one about Adriano Panatta, Italian tennis legend. On 16 December 1977 Giancarlo Antognoni, at that time the midfielder of AFC Fiorentina and of the Italian selection, signs in favour of Antonio Caliendo what is probably the very first Power of Attorney ever granted by a football player. Since 1979 Caliendo starts working full-time as a football players’ manager, currently “Football Players’ Agent”, and around the end of the 80’s he counts about 140 big champions in the list of “his” players. In the 1990 World Cup final game Gemany vs Argentina, 12 out of the 22 players in the starting line- ups were his clients. Among the most famous players he represented there are Aldair, Roberto Baggio, Carlos Dunga, Ramon Diaz, Daniel Passarella, Totò Schillaci, David Trezeguet, Ederson and Maicon. Now Caliendo offers to WCC and to its clients his vast experience in football matters not only as an agent but also as a market advisor for great clubs.
Antonio Caliendo official blog (Italian language)
