“This is a big business, and everybody wants a part of it,” says Ralph Nkomo, a Zimbabwe-born, South Africa-based football agent who has represented some of the best-known names in African football. It takes skill to be a good deal maker, skill.”Working as a football agent really does take skill, Nkomo says. But all is not well in the world of licensed football agents. These “agents of nothing” get their start in the football agent business by convincing eager parents, greedy for riches, that their son will be the next African football superstar. “Agents of nothing.”These “agents of nothing” get their start in the football agent business by convincing eager parents, greedy for riches, that their son will be the next African football superstar.