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Mario Iveljic is the Founder and Managing Director of Mag Mile Sport, leading the firm’s strategic direction across soccer representation, baseball representation, NIL and advisory services.

Long before he committed to soccer full-time, Mario was a high-level baseball player. His youth teams reached the Little League Regional finals as 12-and-under Illinois State Champions and finished as State runners-up at 15. At Thornwood High School he played for a team that finished third in Illinois in 1994, ranked third in the country at one point in the season. With college baseball interest developing, he faced the decision familiar to every serious multi-sport athlete: continuing both was not realistic. He chose soccer at Yale. Living through that as a teenager informs how he counsels multi-sport families at the same crossroads today.

At Yale, Mario was a three-year starter for the varsity men’s program, competing against top Division I opposition and international sides including the U-20 teams of FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. After graduating he continued at the highest levels of amateur soccer in the United States with RWB Adria — one of the most decorated amateur clubs in U.S. history — winning multiple Illinois State Cups, USASA Midwest Regional Championships and a U.S. Amateur Cup in 2011, while competing against professional opposition in the U.S. Open Cup.

Mario combines that playing experience with more than two decades of legal practice. Licensed as an attorney in 2003, he has spent his career negotiating and litigating complex matters in courts and boardrooms nationwide. He has served as a partner at Swanson, Martin & Bell, one of Chicago’s most respected litigation firms, as in-house litigation counsel for CNA, one of the largest commercial insurers in the United States, and is a founding partner of Mag Mile Law. He reads every clause, evaluates every risk, and negotiates every term himself.

Mario is a licensed FIFA Football Agent, a Registered Football Agent with the English Football Association, and the USA lead for the Association of Lawyer FIFA Football Agents, a network of over one hundred lawyer-agents worldwide. He represents players across domestic and international markets in soccer, and emerging professionals in baseball.

Originally from Glasgow, Matt developed his eye for talent across multiple levels of professional and academy football in Europe and the United States. His background is not theoretical — it is built on thousands of hours of player evaluation, database management, and the kind of honest assessment that separates scouts who find players from scouts who find the right players.

In the United States, Matt held senior scouting and recruitment roles at Chicago Fire FC, including Director of Scouting — one of the most demanding evaluation roles in MLS. He was responsible for building and maintaining comprehensive player databases, evaluating domestic and international talent for the MLS Draft, and contributing to one of the club’s strongest competitive periods in recent memory.

He later turned to academy recruitment and development, identifying and integrating players from diverse backgrounds into elite developmental pathways — work that has contributed to players earning professional contracts, representing national teams, and achieving championship-level success.

Brad Friedel is one of the most accomplished American soccer players of his generation. After a standout career at UCLA he represented Liverpool, Blackburn Rovers, Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League — making 310 consecutive appearances, a record that stood for over a decade and remains one of the most remarkable feats of consistency in the history of the game. Internationally he earned 84 caps for the United States and played at three World Cups, and was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2018.

Following his playing career Brad became Head Coach of the United States U-19 Men’s National Team and then Head Coach of the New England Revolution in MLS. As Sporting Consultant at Mag Mile Sport he works directly with players navigating professional careers, bringing firsthand perspective on what it takes to compete and last at that level.