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I must admit that I've never heard of either of them....has anyone else???

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CITY DIRECTORS VISIT BRAZILIAN CLUBS



Mike Rigg, a Manchester City director is travelling the world in search of the "next big thing". Recently, he has visited some Brazilian clubs - Grêmio de Porto Alegre, Internaciona/RS, Atlético de Minas and Cruzeiro so that he can get to know more about them and exchange information.

The City representatives met at Toca da Raposa 1, which houses the football base and at Toca da Raposa 2, for professionals and administrative headquarters located in Barro Preto. City are keen to pick up to tap into the talent in Brazil and all over the world as they look to convince the parents of the child to let their son sign for the Blues when he is legible.

One of City's major objectives from the ADUG take-over was to continue the fantastic work of the academy and to continue building from the base of the club.

The first step to a future partnership between Grêmio and Manchester City was made on Wednesday. The Grêmio director met two of City's directors - Luis Vicente and Mike Rigg. They were at the Olympic Stadium to see the structure of the club and make formal agreements.

There is also news coming out of Brazil that City are interested in signing Kleber, the Brazilian striker. He currently wants out of his club after a spat with the fans. I couldn't see City being interested in siging him as we have an abundance of strikers. A very reliable from Brazil has told me that he wouldn't recommend Kleber as he has a very fiery temper - similar to that of Wayne Rooney's.

Please visit Carlos' blog - he is the City fan in Brazil that is my "very reliable source" -
http://blog.manchestercity.com.br/

It's actually on Atletico Minero's own website so it looks bona fide I guess???

(however he looks like a right Manc scally on the blag in these photos....)

I do like the fact that the title just refers to us as City though.....nuff said re our current profile these days!!

Representantes do City visitam a Cidade do Galo

http://www.atletico.com.br/interna_noti ... a&id=13422\



Ah he does appear to be a real person.....not sure if this is the other guy in the photos and Rigg is the suited man at the very top, came in from Blackburn last December so it seems

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Mike Rigg was a scout. Maybe hes got a promotion

foley87 wrote:Mike Rigg was a scout. Maybe hes got a promotion

Well he is out there scouting, so maybe not much of one.

Slim wrote:

foley87 wrote:Mike Rigg was a scout. Maybe hes got a promotion

Well he is out there scouting, so maybe not much of one.

Well the article suggests hes a club director, hence why i said he may of got a promotion

foley87 wrote:

Slim wrote:

foley87 wrote:Mike Rigg was a scout. Maybe hes got a promotion

Well he is out there scouting, so maybe not much of one.

Well the article suggests hes a club director, hence why i said he may of got a promotion

That whooshing sound you are hearing is the joke passing over your head.

I got the sarcasm, it just failed

foley87 wrote:I got the sarcasm, it just failed

Sure it did sweetheart.

Fiery players seem to work quite well for us, sign him up!

I think that's a case of

'Lost In Translation'

This is great news.

I'm getting a tattoo of Kleber on my arse.

edge275 wrote:This is great news.

I'm getting a tattoo of Kleber on my arse.

To cover up the Kaka one? ;-)))

Mike Rigg is listed as 'Technical Director' on the website, a rather different meaning than 'director' in a boardroom sense methinks.


Luis Vicente’s Summary
At present Head of I.P. and New Business Development at Manchester City F.C.

Was responsible for the Ferrari project within A1GP, coordinating a multi-disciplinary task force interacting with Ferrari at all areas - Communication, Marketing, Sponsorship, promotion & activation, Licensing, Merchandising, Retail, Legal, Finance, Technical, Racing Activities and Special Projects, as well as to advise the A1GP CEO and Chairman on strategic and day-to-day Management decisions.

At the same time responsible for the management and development of the A1GP national Team of Portugal, one of the 23 teams competing at the World Cup of Motorsport. That includes supervision of commercial activities, racing & sportive operations, communication, legal, finance and HR.

Fourteen year experince on the sports industry, specially on talent management, where it was responsible for initiating and managing the sports and marketing activities of some of the world most known soccer athletes including Luis Figo and Ronaldo Nazário, on event management, where it was responsible for the creation, organization and execution of some of the greatest charity soccer games ever including Luis Figo Foundation Allstars and UN Match Against Poverty - Ronaldo Team v Zidane Team, on commercial development, raising more than 1 Billion USD in Sponsorship during his carreer and on consulting including Real Madrid sportive acquisitions.

Luis Vicente’s Specialties:
Sports and Non Sports Talent Management, Sponsorship Acquisition, Sports and Non-Sports Events Managment, Sales/business development, Products, concepts and Brands Activation, creative concept development, foundation fundraising, negotiations, Motorsports, Soccer.

What was the name of that Brazilian striker about 10 years ago who was a fucking crazy bastard and use to get monkeys drunk and generally live a rock n roll life style, had an awesome scoring record for his club but not as good for his country