Make a comeback as an agent in a billionaire H&M venture
Daniel Majstorowicz left BP four years ago.
Since then, it has been quiet around the old national team defender.
Now the 45-year-old talks about why he was set back for several years, the conflict with Andreas Alm, the end of BP, the relationship with Zlatan and returning as an agent.
Firstly, coach Luis Pimenta was forced to move away from Brommapojkarna after player discontent.
Shortly thereafter, sporting director Daniel Majstorovic, who had recruited Pimenta, departed.
This was in September 2018.
Since then, it has basically been quiet about Majstorovic.
you disappeared?
– I haven’t disappeared … says the 45-year-old when we reach him.
– I first went back to being an agent for a while. Then I felt like I just needed to take it easy and think about what I wanted to do in the future. Immediately after my resignation (at the beginning of 2014) I worked as an agent and then as a sports director at AEK Athens and BP. It’s been a tough year and I wanted to take a break from everything.
Majstorovic says he was completely out of work for just over a year during the pandemic before starting work at a company that handles asset management, among other things, for sports stars.
“It tastes bitter”
The other day, Dagens Industri revealed that Carl-Johan Persson, the head of H&M, had entered the football industry by purchasing Footnation, one of Sweden’s largest football agent companies, from agent Miro Jaganjac. Persson does this by investing a large number of millions in the agent company Wesport, which is managed by Nina Wennerström and where he is already a partner, which is officially buying out of Footnation.
Now it turns out that Majstorovic is leaving the world of finance and returning as a football agent when he becomes in charge of the football part of Wesport with former teammate Jaganjac.
When I met Nina and Karl Johan Persson, a spark ignited in me to return to football.
Majstorovic likes to talk about the vision of becoming one of the leading agencies in Scandinavia.
But since you’ve been keeping a low profile for so long and your old feud with Andreas Alm at AIK was recently brought up again in the recently retired centre-back Per “Pertan” Karlsson’s book “The Best Karlsson in the World”, we have to ask for that.
When you came home and wanted to participate and contribute but maybe didn’t get that space and that opportunity, frustration built up. In hindsight, Majstorowicz says, it wasn’t optimal for either party.
– There was a bitter aftertaste from that whole story. Always trying to learn from what’s going on. You are getting older and wiser. As the result was, maybe something should have been done differently.
I guess you have nothing to do with today’s pain?
– We bumped into each other in different contexts and that time is long gone. When we met, the weather was not frosty or strange at all.
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When you left BP – were you fired or was it a mutual decision?
– it was mutual. It was very contrasting to return to Sweden and BP from AEK Athens, both positive and negative. But it was a very educational time.
How is your relationship with BP today?
Good and positive relationship. There are no abnormalities at all. Since then, there has been a change in the structure of BP compared to five or six years ago.
Majstorovic first came to BP as a junior and it was here that he became a standout player.
Now, the club that was constantly oscillating between the top three Allsvenskan leagues is back. Olof Mellberg, an old friend of Majstorovic, took over the team again before Allsvenskan returned.
It’s great that he’s given this opportunity after being away from the coaching profession for a few years. I really hope he gets all the help and support he needs. There is potential to build something up, but you get continuity and keep players around for a little bit longer.
I think Brazil will win the World Cup
The third in the old troika expected in the national team was his name Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
– says Mastorovich, we have a very close relationship.
He is convinced Ibrahimovic will return as a player.
– Of course. I absolutely believe we will see him on the field again. Then we’ll see how far. He has tremendous strength in who he is and the person he has grown into in recent years.
What do you think he will do after his football career? Will he stay in football?
– It’s hard to say. With the history and experience he has gained over the years, it would be very nice to have someone like that back in the football system again. But it is very difficult to define the genre within any genre.
Finally: we are in the middle of the FIFA World Cup. Who wins?
– I think Brazil will take it home. They face France in the final.