Super agent Jorge Mendes
Strong gesture in the Portuguese selection for the 2026 World Cup: more than 70% of the Portuguese chosen by Roberto Martínez are managed by the “super agent” Jorge Mendes.
Gestifute, Jorge Mendes’ company, has never had so many players in a Portuguese national team squad for the finals.
On Roberto Martínez’s list for the 2026 World Cup, organized by Canada, the United States and Mexico, 19 — 70,4% of the total — are linked to the structure of the Portuguese “superagent”, highlights the .
At Euro 2016, a competition that Portugal won in France with a single goal from Éder, Gestifute represented nine of the 23 squad. Two years later, at the 2018 World Cup, there were ten out of 23. Attendance rose to 16 at the 2020 Euro Cup and the Qatar Cup in 2022, reaching 18 at the 2024 Euro Cup. Now, it reaches a new record.
The 19 “Gestifutes”
The players called up for the 2026 World Cup associated with Gestifute are three of the four goalkeepers (Ricardo Velhodo Gençlerbirliği, José Sádo Wolves e Diogo Costafrom FC Porto), three athletes from Manchester City (Bernardo Silva, Ruben Dias e Matheus Nunes), three from PSG (João Neves, Vitinha e Gonçalo Ramos) and yet Rafael Leaodo Milan, João Cancelodo Barcelona, John Felixdo Al Nassr, Pedro Netoto Chelsea, Francisco Conceiçãofrom Juventus, Nelson Semedodo Fenerbahce, Gonçalo Guedesfrom Real Sociedad, Francisco Trincão, from Sporting.
Here, Cristiano Ronaldo appears as a separate case. Although his transfer to Al Nassr was not mediated by Jorge Mendes, but by Ricardo Regufe, the national team captain maintains commercial and image rights contracts associated with Polaris, a company in the Gestifute group. Therefore, it continues to be part of the entrepreneur’s sphere of influence.
The eight who are not with Mendes
The second most represented agency is AS1with three players: Nuno Mendes, Bruno Fernandes e Gonçalo Inácio.
The remaining structures only have one international each: Diogo Dalot (Proeleven), Renato Veiga (Mondo Victory), Tomás Araújo (Epic Sports), Rui Silva (Team of Future) e Samu Costa (US11).
