Today he could talk about a great football career: There were times when Jiří Müller was one of the best players in various age categories. He also wore a captain’s armband on his sleeve in national team selections, where his teammates were, for example, Zdeněk Grygera or Milan Baroš. But the way of life was set differently. Jiří did not become the star of the Prague Sparta, but a man who made sure that today’s footballers managed to create such a star.
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Main topics of Ušák with Jiří Müller
01:47 – Why he finished football so early
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05:34 – How he became a player agent
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09:22 – What to do with a football player when he loses motivation
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12:55 – On the financial literacy of athletes and advice
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15:22 – How the transfer amounts of football players are determined
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18:28 – How to transfer a player
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20:06 – About money in Czech sport
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21:32 – How important contacts are to an agent
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24:05 – At what age a football player becomes interesting for agents
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27:05 – About the increase of football agents in the Czech Republic
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29:28 – About conflicts between players and agents
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31:22 – About Zlatan and his contract in Barcelona
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35:33 – Is he planning a transfer bomb?
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See the whole part in the video at the beginning of the article.
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Over time, he became one of the most important players’ agents. Today, he cannot praise this reversed switch. He himself says that many of his former teammates were better, so everything turned out as it should. At the same time, he got into a situation where he was no longer happy flying around the football field, staying in the locker rooms or hard training, there was simply a certain degree of burnout.
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The ideas are very often beautiful and colorful, but real life often breaks them down. In Ušák’s latest work, Jiří Müller told him what it was like to tell his father, the owner of several restaurants, that he had ended an active career. It was not good news for his father, because he supported Jiří as much as possible.
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However, the moment his son came up with the idea that he could switch to family business and start working in one of his father’s establishments, he was told that the end of his football career was his decision, so now he had to take care of himself. To this day, Jiří is convinced that this was the best possible decision. Although he had to start as a cleaner at a new stage in his life, freedom and a clear head were worth it.
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But he definitely didn’t cut himself off from football. He started working as an agent in the company of Zdeněk Nehoda and after a few years he became independent. Over time, it has developed into a leader in the field. At the same time, he befriended perhaps the most influential man in the industry – Min Raiola, the recently deceased driver of the vast majority of important phenomena on the football map. He learned a lot from him. Just listen to what it was like when Raiol “sold” Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Barcelona, how much money was at stake and what Zlatan’s salary looked like in the end. After all, it is not without interest that the tall Swedish striker has never won a trophy for the best player in Europe, but for several years he was the highest paid football player on the continent.
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Jiří Müller also has a friendly relationship with coach Jindřich Trpišovský. According to him, it is only a matter of time before Trpišovský leaves Slavia and goes to work abroad. As the biggest problem of Czech coaches considering working abroad, Müller talks about language (dis) equipment, Czech coaches are professionally good at it. In Ušák 215, we also talked about what it’s like to work with a player who suffered from a similar syndrome as Jiří himself, when football no longer brings him joy and is looking for a different content, as sometimes astronomical transfer amounts are determined, how old are they? young adepts of the football arts under the scrutiny of agents and scouts, but also about Jiří Müller’s opinion on the support of sports from government circles.
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See the introductory video for more. You can see other parts of Ušák here.
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The show Ušák airs on the List of News and premieres every Sunday at 17:00.
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