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Born Oliver Arthur March 23rd, 1974 Nationality: Ghanaian Occupation: Football agent and sports consultant Years active: 2002-present Agency: Arthur Legacy Sports Ltd.

Intro blurb Oliver Arthur (born March 23rd, 1974) is a Ghanaian football agent. Recognised as one of Africa’s most prominent FIFA accredited match agent and a Ghana Football Association intermediary Oliver founded ArthurLegacy Sports Limited in 2014 to manage and groom promising footballers for the international market. ArthurLegacy’s key clients include players like Richmond Boakye-Yiadom, Afriyie Acquah, Isaac Cofie and Godfred Donsah.

Contents •	Early life and playing career •	Career as football club manager •	ArthurLegacy Sports Limited •	Partnerships •	Calcio Trade Ball •	Personal life

Early life and playing career Oliver started his career playing Colts football as a gifted winger for Dansoman United FC. His natural knack for the game earned him the nickname “Sabaato”. He shared the stage with players like Yaw Sakyi who went on to excel at Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Leonard Myles-Mills-former 100m runner for Ghana. Based on the urgings of his parents, Oliver chose to pursue academic exploits instead of becoming a professional football player. He attended Suhum Secondary Technical School and went on to Accra Academy for 6th form.

Career as football club manager Post football, Oliver turned his talents towards football club management. While working for Alitalia, Oliver began organizing tournaments for football clubs and then became the chairman of Liberty Professionals’ U20 team for a short spell. Subsequently he took over the chairmanship of Beechem United from the then chairman Kingsley Owusu-Achau who believed in him and was instrumental in making him a world class agent. Oliver was chairman of Bechem United for 6 years and transformed the club from Division 2 to a Premier club in 2011.

ArthurLegacy Sports Limited Oliver commends the late Sly Tetteh (Liberty Professionals) and Kingsley Owusu-Achau (Bechem United); for inspiring him to delve into player management. Driven by his passion to groom young talented players and help set them up in international clubs, Oliver together with Ralph Gyamerah, Roy Arthur and Majar Kwame Baah started the Atlas Sports Management in 2006. Together, they started organising football tournaments to scout for talented players in Ghana and market them in Italy. Atlas Sports Management took part in Trofeo Rocco Nero, Trofeo Karol Wojtyla and Tornero Gradisca-all football tournaments in Italy. With their football team DC United, Atlas Sports won the prestigious Tornero Gradisca in 2010. Skilful players like Azian Tano Innocent, Richmond Boakye-Yiadom, Afriyie Acquah, Akwasi Frimpong and Salifu Amidu were all discovered through these tournaments. After breaking away from Atlas Sports Management, Oliver set up his own football agency and sport consultancy in 2014 after receiving his FIFA licence as an agent two years prior. Known as ArthurLegacy Sports Ltd, the agency provides end to end management of young gifted footballers and trains them for international clubs. By organizing trial tournaments, the agency successfully placed footballers in coveted clubs across Europe. Notable transfers include Alfred Duncan to Inter Milan, Chibsah Rahman to Sassuolo, Masawudu Alhassan to Genoa and Godfred Adofo to Parma. Outside of these tournament transfers, the agency has also secured direct player placements abroad. Players like Eyram Laveh, John Kofi Essel, Augustine Okra, Bright Addae, Derrick Appiah and Patrick Asmah are playing great football in the following clubs: Chievo Verona, FC Cluj, BK Hacken, Parma, AS Monaco and Atlanta respectively. At present, ArthurLegacy is managing 11 young talents, three of whom are Nigerian: Orji Okwonkow (Striker, Bologna), Kingsley Michael Dogo (Midfielder, Bologna), and Sadiq Umar (A.S Roma). These players are highly regarded in their respective clubs. The other talents are Carl Davordzie, Philip Ankrah, Ahmed Awuah Ankrah, Kwaku Osei Bonsu, Edmond Addo, Salim Abubakar and Eric Appiah.

Partnerships While working as a tour guide with Alitalia, Oliver was introduced to football agent Mauro Barnebei who joined him and the other founders set up Atlas Sports Management. Mauro was instrumental in helping organize tournaments for football clubs in Ghana and Italy during that time. He later went on to partner with Leonardo Guisti and secured transfers for Isaac Cofie, Yusuf Chibsah Rahman, Alfred Duncan, Edmund Hohor, Nii Nartey Ashma and Massarrel Alhassan. Currently, Oliver works with ace agent Paolo Busardo and together they have negotiated highly lucrative deals like the €4 million move of Afriyie Acquah to Torino, a transfer deal worth €5 million of Godfred Donsah from Cagliari to Bologna as well as moving Boakye-Yiadom to Juventus for €4million and then his € 6 million move to Jiansu Suning in China.

Calcio Trade Ball event The Calcio Trade Ball event was conceptualised by the Oliver Arthur to celebrate Ghana-Italy football partnership and recognise footballers who have succeeded in their international careers and contributed to the growth and development of football in both nations. Personal life Oliver married his lovely wife Bertha in 2005 and together they have 3 sons: Jason Jaidoo Arthur, Kevin Kobina Fosu Arthur and Andrew Ekow Afful Arthur. Born and raised a Christian, Oliver believes in doing God’s work and giving back. Once a year since 2015, Oliver donated clothing and food as well as pays the school fees of children in Macarthy Kope-a village in Ada. He also gave a generous donation to the SOS village in 2016 and provides financial assistance to struggling students.