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HARDtalk: Jon Smith, CEO First Artist Corporation

31/03/2010

Jon Smith, CEO First Artist Corporation

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Stephen Sackur talks to Jon Smith, who has represented some of football's biggest stars.

Stephen Sackur talks to Jon Smith, whose agency has represented some of football's biggest stars, and asks him if greed is destroying the beautiful game.

Professional football generates vast TV revenues and has a global fan base, and yet many of the top clubs are crippled with debt. Many insiders blame the astronomical wages paid to elite footballers. Jon Smith runs an agency which has represented some of the game's biggest stars, including Diego Maradona, but now he wants to get out of the football business. Stephen Sackur asks him if greed is destroying the beautiful game.

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