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What does it take to cut it as a top football agent in a highly competitive environment?

There isn't a better person to ask than renowned South African football agent Mike Makaab.

Makaab, who runs ProSport International, is considered the leading agent on the continent, and who has signed some of the biggest names in football, says it’s all about hard work and perseverance.

“It takes an incredible amount of hard work, hours and perseverance, determination, grit and an insatiable desire to succeed in an industry which I humbly say, I pioneered in South Africa, as the first licensed Fifa agent,” Makaab told the Saturday Star.

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