How to Become a Sports Agent

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Sports agents help athletes plan their careers. One of their most basic duties is to handle contract negotiations between athletes and sports franchises or event promoters.Agents also help athletes set goals for their careers, find teams and events that fit with those goals, manage their finances, negotiate endorsement deals, handle public image issues, set up charitable foundations to advance the athlete’s causes of interest, and prepare for careers after they retire from their sport.