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Pini Zahavi (Pinhas Zahavi) was born on 1955 in Ness Ziona, Israel, is an Israeli sports agent (born 1955). Discover Pini Zahavi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

Popular As Pinhas Zahavi
Occupation Sports agent
Age 69 years old
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Born 1955
Birthday 1955
Birthplace Ness Ziona, Israel
Nationality Israel

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1955

Pinhas "Pini" Zahavi (פנחס "פיני" זהבי; born 1955 ) is an Israeli football agent.

Zahavi was involved in the change of ownership of Chelsea and Portsmouth and for his work as a football agent, especially the (at the time) record-breaking transfer of Rio Ferdinand.

Zahavi's offices are in Tel Aviv.

Zahavi was born in Ness Ziona, Israel in 1955, to a family of Jewish background.

He is the son of a shopkeeper who sold building materials to local tradesmen.

He has two elder sisters and a brother.

Zahavi is a widower with two children.

He lives in a seaside apartment in the north of Tel Aviv and rents a flat in Marble Arch, London.

He is the great uncle of footballer Alex Zahavi.

Zahavi began a career as a football journalist after dropping out of university.

He worked for the Israeli newspapers Hadashot Hasport, Yedioth Ahronoth and Hadashot.

1979

Zahavi negotiated his first deal in 1979, the transfer of Israeli defender Avi Cohen from Maccabi Tel Aviv to Liverpool.

Zahavi's first transfer deal was undertaken in 1979 when he helped arrange the transfer of Israeli defender Avi Cohen from Maccabi Tel Aviv to Liverpool for £200,000.

Zahavi, who travelled to England regularly to watch football, recommended Cohen to Liverpool when he saw Peter Robinson, the then secretary of the club, at Heathrow airport during a flight delay caused by fog.

The player had got to know Zahavi through his coverage of Maccabi Tel Aviv in Yedioth Ahronoth.

Zahavi was paid an introduction fee for his part in the deal.

A year later, Zahavi arranged a loan move to Maccabi Tel Aviv for Manchester City player Barry Silkman, with whom Zahavi would later be associated with when Silkman became a football agent.

1980

As a sports journalist, he built up a network of contacts throughout the 1980s.

Zahavi was a friend of the Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, whom he had first got to know in the late 1980s, and by the time of the Ferdinand transfer he was responsible for brokering almost every major Manchester United deal, including the sale of Jaap Stam to Lazio for £16.5 million and the purchase of Juan Sebastián Verón from the same club for £28.1 million in 2001.

Juan Sebastián Verón had been signed for Lazio by another friend of Zahavi's, Sven-Göran Eriksson, whom he knew first as a young coach at Benfica.

1990

In 1990, Zahavi negotiated the transfer of another Israeli player, forward Ronnie Rosenthal, from Standard Liège to Liverpool.

Kenny Dalglish was by then Liverpool's manager.

By this time, Zahavi had built an extensive network of contacts within English football.

His friendships included not just Graeme Souness and Dalglish, but also Terry Venables, Ron Atkinson and Alex Ferguson, as well as many more among the next generation of managers and players.

1997

In 1997, Zahavi negotiated the transfer of Israeli midfielder Eyal Berkovic from Southampton to West Ham United.

Zahavi's association with Berkovic had already been responsible for the player's move from Maccabi Haifa to English football at Southampton, then being managed by Zahavi's friend, Graeme Souness.

A side effect of the West Ham deal was that it was brought Zahavi into contact with Rio Ferdinand.

1998

He gave up his job as a journalist in 1998 and negotiated his second deal the following year.

This marked the beginning of his career as an agent and he continued to develop close ties in the football world by organising friendly internationals in Israel, inviting players, including Graeme Souness and Kenny Dalglish, to holiday at his villa in Eilat, and even taking oranges to Melwood, Liverpool's training ground, as a gift for players and staff.

In 1998, Zahavi had been introduced to Abramovich in Moscow by a mutual friend and so was able to provide an introduction when he was approached by Trevor Birch, the chief executive of the heavily indebted Chelsea, who were on the verge of being unable to pay their players' wages.

2000

Zahavi handled the transfer that took Ferdinand from West Ham to Leeds United for £18 million in 2000, and then his £30 million transfer from Leeds to Manchester United in 2002.

As part of the deal, Zahavi was himself paid £1.13 million.

2003

In 2003, Zahavi played an important and central role in Roman Abramovich's acquisition of Chelsea and in the influx of players that followed.

Zahavi became an influential member of Abramovich's inner circle and was estimated to have earned as much as £5 million from the £111 million that Chelsea spent on players that summer.

2005

In 2005, The Football Association (FA) recommended that Zahavi be investigated by the responsible bodies for his part in the "tapping-up" of the Arsenal left back Ashley Cole, who was approached by Chelsea in contravention of Premier League regulations.

The independent commission established by the Premier League to investigate the incident after an official complaint by Arsenal concluded that Zahavi and Cole's agent Jonathan Barnett had extended an invitation to Chelsea to which the club had responded.

Zahavi and Barnett were then present at the Royal Park Hotel, London, on 27 January 2005 when Cole met the Chelsea manager, José Mourinho, and club's chief executive, Peter Kenyon.

Chelsea, Mourinho and Cole were all fined for their part in the affair, while Barnett was fined £100,000 and had his licence suspended by the FA for 18 months, later reduced to a 12-month ban.

2009

Neither the FA nor the Premier League had any jurisdiction over Zahavi but referred the matter to FIFA, whose investigation was, as of October 2009, ongoing.

Zahavi maintained his innocence of any wrongdoing, claiming that "at that time I did not represent Chelsea or Ashley Cole".