Bryan Yeubrey is a British businessman, writer and football agent licensed by The FA and FIFA

FIFA

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association , commonly known by the acronym FIFA , is the international governing body of :association football, futsal and beach football. Its headquarters are located in Zurich, Switzerland, and its president is Sepp Blatter, who is in his fourth...

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Early life and career

Born in Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. For Eurostat purposes Walsall and Wolverhampton is a NUTS 3 region and is one of five boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "West Midlands" NUTS 2 region...

, he attended the city's St. Peter's School. A creative producer and entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

, whose varied commercial interests at one time even included ownership of an American professional wrestling

Wrestling

Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...

 company. He is now an FA Licensed Players’ Agent.

Based in London and West Midlands

West Midlands (region)

The West Midlands is an official region of England, covering the western half of the area traditionally known as the Midlands. It contains the second most populous British city, Birmingham, and the larger West Midlands conurbation, which includes the city of Wolverhampton and large towns of Dudley,...

 but working globally, he has represented a number of top international professional football players including: David Villa

David Villa

David Villa Sánchez , nicknamed , is a Spanish footballer who currently plays as a striker for FC Barcelona and the Spanish national football team. He can also operate as a winger....

, Sergio Agüero

Sergio Agüero

Sergio Leonel "Kun" Agüero del Castillo is an Argentine footballer who plays as a striker for Manchester City in England's Premier League and the Argentine national team....

, Pablo Zabaleta

Pablo Zabaleta

Pablo Javier Zabaleta Girod is an Argentine footballer who plays for Manchester City.Zabaleta can operate on both sides of the pitch either as a defender or defensive midfielder, but is predominantly a right sided player. Zabaleta also holds a Spanish passport...

, Wael Gomaa

Wael Gomaa

Wael Gomaa is an Egyptian footballer. He plays as a defender for Egypt's African Champion Al-Ahly club as well as Egypt's National Football Team-Club career:...

, Amr Zaki

Amr Zaki

Amr Zaki is an Egyptian footballer who currently plays as a striker for Zamalek and the Egypt national team. He is known for his strong headers and for being a top striker in Africa.-Early career:...

, Joaquín Sánchez, Marcus Bent

Marcus Bent

Marcus Nathan Bent is an English football striker who plays for Indonesian club Mitra Kukar. A former England under-21 international, the journeyman striker has played for fourteen different clubs, playing over 570 games and scoring 110 goals in the process.A England under-21 international, he...

, Stephen Kelly, Mauro Zárate

Mauro Zárate

Mauro Matías Zárate is an Argentine footballer who plays for Serie A club Internazionale on loan from Lazio.Zárate started his career with Vélez Sársfield in his native country, playing three years for the team and winning the Primera División title in the 2005 Clausura tournament...

, Ange Pacomé Dogba Gnagbo

Ange Pacomé Dogba Gnagbo

Ange Pacomé Dogba Gnagbo is an Ivorian football player who currently plays for ASEC Mimosas.- Career :Seri began his career with Séwé Sports de San Pedro...

, Nikola Žigić

Nikola Žigic

Nikola Žigić is a Serbian footballer who plays for English club Birmingham City as a centre forward.At , Žigić is among the tallest professional players in the world...

, Mohamed Shawky

Mohamed Shawky

Mohamed Ali Abu El Yazid Shawky is an Egyptian footballer. He plays the Defensive midfielder position for Egyptian Premier League side Al-Ahly as well as the Egypt's national football team...

, John Alvbage, Jonás Gutiérrez

Jonás Gutiérrez

Jonás Manuel Gutiérrez is an Argentine footballer who plays for English Premier League side Newcastle United, and for the Argentinian national team, as a winger. He acquired his nickname "Spider-Man" or "Spider-Mag" during his time at Real Mallorca where he celebrated a goal by putting on a...

, Jonas Olsson

Jonas Olsson

Jonas Olsson is the name of:* Jonas Olsson , Swedish football manager and former player* Jonas Olsson , Swedish football player* Jonas Olsson , Swedish ice hockey player...

He also has also represented a number of football managers, including; Walter Zenga

Walter Zenga

Walter Zenga is a retired Italian footballer and current manager. He is a long-time goalkeeper for the Italian national team and Internazionale. He also holds Romanian citizenship...

, Roberto Landi

Roberto Landi

Roberto Landi is an Italian association football manager, who currently heads the Liberia national football team.-Player:...

, David Platt, John Beck

John Beck (footballer)

John Alexander Beck is an English former footballer and manager. As a player he made nearly 500 league appearances between 1972 and 1988....

 and Craig Brown.

His latest ‘future star’ finds are

Together with son Paul, he has developed a global network of football contacts, and his latest ‘future star’ finds are:

Carlos Enrique Fernandez, who at only 18, already has 60 international caps for Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

, at FULL, U23, U21 and U20.

Ange Pacomé Dogba Gnagbo

Ange Pacomé Dogba Gnagbo

Ange Pacomé Dogba Gnagbo is an Ivorian football player who currently plays for ASEC Mimosas.- Career :Seri began his career with Séwé Sports de San Pedro...

, known as Dogba, who is a young international from Côte d'Ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire

The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast is a country in West Africa. It has an area of , and borders the countries Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana; its southern boundary is along the Gulf of Guinea. The country's population was 15,366,672 in 1998 and was estimated to be...

, that Spurs, Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, Bolton

Bolton

Bolton is a town in Greater Manchester, in the North West of England. Close to the West Pennine Moors, it is north west of the city of Manchester. Bolton is surrounded by several smaller towns and villages which together form the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, of which Bolton is the...

 and Portsmouth

Portsmouth

Portsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island...

  To date they have been unable to obtain a work permit

Work permit

Work permit is a generic term for a legal authorization which allows a person to take employment.It is most often used in reference to instances where a person is given permission to work in a country where one does not hold citizenship, but is also used in reference to minors, who in some...

 for the player. Dogba has U20 international caps for Côte d'Ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire

The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast is a country in West Africa. It has an area of , and borders the countries Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana; its southern boundary is along the Gulf of Guinea. The country's population was 15,366,672 in 1998 and was estimated to be...

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Also rising stars represented include, Abdelhameed Shabana

Abdul Hameid Shabana

Abdelhameed Shabana is an Egyptian footballer who currently plays for Egyptian Premier League club Al-Ahly. He is an electrifying attacking midfielder, who can also play as a striker or a winger....

 and Samir Sony.

Alain Robert

He also manages the career of Alain Robert

Alain Robert

Alain Robert , is a French rock and urban climber, from Digoin, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France...

 (Spiderman). Alain is the world renowned urban free climber, who has climbed more than 100 of the world's tallest buildings with nothing more than his bare hands.

On 28 March 2011, he was with Alain Robert

Alain Robert

Alain Robert , is a French rock and urban climber, from Digoin, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France...

 when he climbed the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa (2717 feet / 828 meters).

Other interests

A writer, filmmaker, recording artist, songwriter (Songs covered by various artists – Also Final groupings of Song For Europe 1981 and 1988), he is also a regular contributor to magazines, usually writing on matters of health, nutrition

Nutrition

Nutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet....

 and longevity

Longevity

The word "longevity" is sometimes used as a synonym for "life expectancy" in demography or known as "long life", especially when it concerns someone or something lasting longer than expected ....

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Also, the creator of many of the popular humorous greetings cards and calendars for sale in High Street stores across the United Kingdom, and of the soon to be released cartoon ‘super hero’ Lovely Les Ferrari.

He has just finished writing a Christmas

Christmas

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...

 single with his long time friend, the actor and comedian Bobby Davro

Bobby Davro

Bobby Davro is a British actor and comedian. He is mainly known for his work as an impressionist...

. It is hoped that Bobby, Shane Ritchie and Joe Pasquale

Joe Pasquale

Joseph Ellis "Joe" Pasquale is an English comedian from Grays, Essex, arguably most famous for his high-pitched voice, use of visual gags and more recently being crowned "King of the Jungle", on the reality TV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!...

 will release this together for Christmas 2010. He is also working on an Australian musical project, with the multi-talented genius Rolf Harris

Rolf Harris

Rolf Harris, CBE, AM is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, composer, painter and television personality.Born in Perth, Western Australia, Harris was a champion swimmer before studying art. He moved to England in 1952, where he started to appear on television programmes on which he drew the...

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The holder of several patents, in 1987 Bryan Yeubrey and rock star Robin George

Magnum (band)

Magnum are a British progressive rock band from Birmingham, England. Formed as a four piece by Tony Clarkin , Bob Catley , Kex Gorin and Bob Doyle in order to appear as the resident band at The Rum Runner night club Birmingham...

 invented the onboard ‘compact tuner’. This was designed for stringed instruments in general but in particular for guitars (Patent EP0269652), and it ushered in a new generation of frequency counting tuning

Musical tuning

In music, there are two common meanings for tuning:* Tuning practice, the act of tuning an instrument or voice.* Tuning systems, the various systems of pitches used to tune an instrument, and their theoretical bases.-Tuning practice:...

 devices that were actually built into musical instruments. The first was the Casio PG-380 professional guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

. The Yeubrey/George form of tuning is now a worldwide standard.

Yeubrey is involved with various charitable activities. In the 1990s, he sued HSBC Bank

HSBC Bank

HSBC Bank may refer to any one of the following principal local banks for HSBC Group:- Americas :* HSBC Bank Argentina* HSBC Bank Brazil* HSBC Bank Canada* HSBC Bank Chile* HSBC Bank Costa Rica* HSBC Bank El Salvador* HSBC Bank Honduras...

 plc in a huge action, settled privately.

Yeubrey is presently leading a campaign to honour the former England captain Billy Wright CBE, with a posthumous knighthood. www.SirBillyWright.com

Personal life

He lives with Tessa, they have three children; Emma, Jay and Paul.

A lifelong bodybuilder and fitness addict, who at 5’11" weighs 238 lbs (108 kg) and has officially bench-pressed 528 lbs (240 kg).

Also an admitted car freak, his first auto was a rusting Morris Marina

Morris Marina

The Morris Marina is a car which was manufactured by the Morris division of British Leyland in the UK throughout the 1970s, which was a period of great turbulence and difficulty for the British car industry. It was known in some markets as the Austin Marina, Leyland Marina, and Morris 1.7...

 1.8, with a top speed of 53 mph, though it did go faster down steep hills. Seeking a little more power, his next car was a silver Jensen Interceptor

Jensen Interceptor

The Jensen Interceptor was a sporting GT-class car hand-built in the United Kingdom by Jensen Motors between 1966 and 1976. The Interceptor name had been used previously by Jensen for an earlier car made between 1950 and 1957...

 Mark lll.

His present business car is a Jaguar, with the registration number W13ARD.

External links

• www.SirBillyWright.com