The entourage of the stars - who is the person who started the trend in sports?

Sports stars have huge entourages – trainers, chefs, friends, publicists, personal assistants and what not, including the entourage of athletes like Neymar, Floyd Mayweather, Paul Pogba, Cristiano Ronaldo and who else. This trend is particularly popular in boxing, as many boxers are constantly in the company of their friends, whom the media writes is their "entourage". It is no coincidence that it is from this sport that this phenomenon in sports originates.

Sugar Ray Robinson is arguably boxing's first big star and widely regarded as the greatest pound for pound boxer of all time. His killer style in the ring also carries over outside, as he is considered the "father of the entourage" - people from the athlete's environment who are constantly with him.

The term "entourage" was not widely known in the United States at the time, but after his second world title defense, Robinson traveled to Europe, where he and his entourage toured a number of European cities in the boxing star's pink Cadillac. And in Paris, for the first time, the people with whom Robinson surrounded himself are addressed as his "entourage".

"He is the pioneer of larger-than-life entourages, as he was always surrounded by many people, including secretaries, a barber, a masseuse, a vocal coach, sports coaches, beautiful women, a manager and even a dwarf mascot," says the journalist ESPN's Ron Flatter. For the first time, the people around Robinson were called "entourage" by a steward responsible for the star's security in Paris. Although the boxer does not like the direct translation of the word (ed. - present) because he considers these people his friends, he likes the sound of the word and begins to use it constantly in interviews and remains in the minds of people in the United States.

Even after his retirement from sports, many of the sports stars move everywhere with their "entourage", and nowadays almost every sports star is surrounded by close people who are called his "entourage".

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