MEGASPORT is at the complete disposition of the professional basketball player and of his career.
In today's world, talent alone is not enough. Only through total dedication to physical and technical improvement is it possible to reach the top and stay there.
And that's why the right choice of representation is so important, allowing the professional athlete to concentrate solely on basketball, leaving other career matters to qualified agents and experts in the field.
In MegaSport we have the concept of quality and not quantity of players. We aim to acquire players whom not only strive to reach their maximum potential technically and financially, but also maintain a certain professional image on and off the court as well which in turn opens doors for endorsements, sponsorships, etc... We take pride in following our players personally to ensure their initial set-up as well as the follow through to assist them in various issues which may occur during the arc of a season and may take away from the player’s focus on basketball %100.
More rules and regulations are being implemented to guarantee every player’s salary agreement be respected and paid in full, but unfortunately situations arise and must be dealt with legally. MegaSport provides a tremendous advantage with the capability to handle all legal disputes or problems of any type with our own in house Dario Santrolli an attorney who has more than 20 years experience in the field and handles all legal issues that may occur during the player‘s career abroad.
MegaSport has collaborating partners on every continent world wide and never stops until every player is working somewhere……….
The founder of MEGASPORT is Dario Santrolli, one time player and a University of Pavia graduate in Law. He began his career in the early nineteen-eighties in both civil and and labor suits, representing, among others, numerous athletes. He soon made the acquaintence of some American agents and began collaborating with them as a legal adviser to their players.
Soon after, in 1982, he became an indipendent representative of both Italian and foreign basketball players, building up an organization of European and American agents which would come to be known as one of the most efficient in Europe. Dario Santrolli and his associates have settled hundreds of contracts for their Clients since then.
MEGASPORT'S success was further consolidated in 1996 when the Bosman sentence confirmed the need for a certain standard of organization which MEGASPORT had been up to for years and which few others could then meet. MEGASPORT has signed more then 900 basketball contracts till today.
Dario Santrolli is an Italian Federation Registered Agent # 001042 and FIBA Certified Players' Agent # 2008020360.
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Dan Gay has been a part of European basketball in many different aspects of the game from player to front office to coach for a little less than three decades. He has always been one of his coaches’ main points of reference on all of the teams he has played on because of his unselfish gift of thinking team first and his professionalism on and off the court.
Dan a Tallahassee, Florida native, attended Amos P. Godby High school of Tallahassee and on to the University of Southwestern Louisiana (U of L Lafayette) then drafted by the Washington Bullets (3rd round 73rd pick) continuing on to Holland to start his European career where he needed to prove his worthiness to earn a chance to compete in higher international championships.
After a season in Holland, he went directly to Italy for a tryout for the following season, afterwards he was called to play with American Eagle Rieti, Italy where he started his path in the spaghetti circuit(Italy). After 1 season in Rieti, he went on to play 3 years in Cantu’, 3 in Treviso, 2 in Pistoia, 7 in Bologna, 6 more in Cantu’, returned to Bologna as player, later transforming into player/ Team Manager then on to finish the season as player/head coach. After, transferring to Pesaro 2 years, as player/ Team Manager the first year and the 2nd as Team Manager. In 2009 Dan was named as Team Director of the Italian National Team.
Dan has thrived on being a part of the culture as well as learning the language since he arrived in Italy which is one of the premier reasons for his longevity here. He acquired his Italian citizenship and played on the Italian National team participating in the 1997 European Championships - Barcellona, Spain.
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