Milan Ćalasan

Milan Ćalasan (born 29 October 1954) is a retired Slovenian-born Montenegrin football player,[2] nowadays based in France where he's active as a players agent.

Milan Ćalasan
Personal information
Date of birth (1954-10-29) 29 October 1954
Place of birth Maribor, FPR Yugoslavia
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1973–1974 Maribor
1974–1975 Budućnost Titograd
1975–1977 Red Star Belgrade 3 (0)
1977–1979 Olimpija Ljubljana 60 (16)
1979–1982 Dinamo Zagreb 27 (5)
1982–1983 Liège 16 (5)
1983–1984 Rot-Weiss Essen 11 (1)
1984–1985 Béziers 33 (20)
1985–1987 Orléans 64 (38)
1987–1988 Guingamp 30 (17)
1988–1989 Guegnon
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Football career

Ćalasan played for Red Star Belgrade, Olimpija Ljubljana and Dinamo Zagreb in the 1970s and 1980s before moving abroad and spending several seasons with Liège in Belgium and Rot-Weiss Essen in Germany.[3]

After retiring from football, Ćalasan became a sports agent. His Paris-based sports agency (Mondialvas SARL) has managed careers of manager Arsène Wenger, Vahid Halilhodžić and Radomir Antić and footballers such as Christian Karembeu, Samuel Etoo, Vincent Kompany, Dragan Stojković, Nikola Žigić, Milinko Pantić, Anto Drobnjak, Florent Malouda, Džoni Novak, Ardian Kozniku, Branislav Ivanović, Patrick M'Boma, Mateo Pavlović, Franck Durix and Zoran Vulić as well as several players who played for Paris Saint-Germain in the early 2000s, such as Branko Bošković, Juan Pablo Sorín and Éric Rabésandratana.

From 1990 to 2001 he was the sports director of two Japanese football clubs, Nagoya Grampus Eight and Gamba Osaka. He was the first agent who brought European players and coaches such as Arsène Wenger and Frederic Antonetti in Japan.

Other activities

In May 2010, Ćalasan was mentioned in the Serbian media in connection to the controversial 2005 satellite rental contract in which another one of his companies, Camira Creek Corporation based in the Virgin Islands, acted as middleman between the Serbia and Montenegro state union and Israeli company Image Sat International. Ćalasan was reportedly involved in the negotiations between the two parties since the fall of 2004 at which time Serbia and Montenegro was represented by its defense minister Prvoslav Davinić and its president Svetozar Marović.[4]

Davinić eventually signed off on the contract for the rental services of the EROS satellite for €45 million.[5] According to allegations, the deal had not been authorized by the Serbian state authorities and the entire affair came under investigation conducted by the Serbian justice and defence ministries.[5]

References
  1. "Calasan, Milan" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  2. Milan Ćalasan at redstarbelgrade.info (in Serbian)
  3. "Milan Calasan". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
  4. "Nikčević "vidovitiji" od Marovića i Davinića" (in Serbian). Politika. 30 May 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  5. "Fudbalski menadžer u aferi Satelit". Vesti online (in Serbian). 28 May 2010. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
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