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Oliver Arthur - Bio
Oliver Arthur (born March 23, 1974), better known simply as Oliver, is a Ghanaian football agent. He is registered with the Ghana Football Association and heads the ArthurLegacy Sports Limited, a company he founded in 2014. Oliver is among the most influential FIFA accredited football agents in Africa and the world at large with a clientele portfolio including, Richmond Boakye-Yiadom, Afriyie Acquah and Godfred Donsah. Oliver is often referred to as Ghana’s lead International football agent.

Early career
Oliver began as a footballer but was forced to abandon his hopes of a professional career after a knee injury at the Dansoman United FC where he played Colts football for the U-17 team and was seen to be a promising winger in his early 20s.

Oliver’s post-football life career involved management of key football clubs in Ghana such as Bechem United FC where he served as the Chief Executive Officer of the club from 2002 - 2006. He moved to establish his own football player scouting and grooming company, which was highly successful in mobilizing and moving local football players to international markets.

ArthurLegacy Sports
ArthurLegacy Sports Limited is a football agency and sport consultancy based company that seeks to undertake the end-to-end management of football talents for training and grooming for the local and international football markets. ArthurLegacy Sports Limited was established in 2014 with the key objective of identifying local talents and fulfilling their dream of being trained and subsequently transferred to International Clubs.

The company also organizes both local trial tournaments and European events staging. Over the years, they have successfully organised several training camps in Europe for the Ghana Black Starlets and Satellites to Italy in 2015. The current flagship event of the company is Calcio Trade Ball event, the partnership celebrating years of Italy-Ghana football partnership and development.

Career as an agent
ArthurLegacy’s key clients include Black Star players at Torino, Jiangsu Suning and Bologna.

ALSL carries out the transfer of 3 to 4 young players during every transfer window. Alfred Duncan (Inter Milan), Yussif Chipsah (Sassuolo), Isaac Cofie (Genoa), and Masahudu Alhassan (Genoa) were notable deals from these tournaments.

Youngsters Eyram Leveh and John Kofi Essel were transfered in January to Chievo Verona (Italy) and FC Cluj (Romania) under a revised policy or strategy of moving individual players abroad directly, rather than through tournaments.

Through the tournament strategy, lasting until 2014, more than 10 players came through to the system – also including Richmond Boakye-Yiadom (Genoa), Afriyie Acquah (Palermo), Godfred Donsah (Hellas Verona), Maxwell Boadu Acosty (Regina), Godfred Adofo (Parma), Kofi Adjei (Fiorentina), Eric Warden (Celta Vigo), Azian Tano Innocent (Udinese).

Augustine Okra, and the likes of Bright Addae, Derrick Appiah and Patrick Asmah were transferred directly to BK Hacken, Parma, AS Monaco, and Atlanta respectively.

ArthurLegacy is currently managing 11 young players, all with enterprising promises, with 8 of them being Nigerian. Three of the Nigerians – Orji Okwonkow (Striker, Bologna), Kingsley Michael Dogo (Midfielder, Bologna), and Nura Abdulai (Defender, AS Roma) – are seen as prime talents in Italy.