KAISER-THE GREATEST FOOTBALLER NEVER TO PLAY FOOTBALL

Sort of in to films this week following on from "The Damned United" and yesterday I got wind of a new film which was shown at the Trebica Film Festival in April 2018. It is called "Kaiser-the greatest footballer never to play football". Here is the trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcGaz0KdDwk

Carlos Henrique Raposo, soon to be known as Carlos Kaiser, was born in April 1963 and became a "farce footballer". He never actually played for any length of time in a match, hiding his ability by phony injuries, frequent club changes and other ruses......he did this for 26 years.
His roll of clubs included from 1979: Puebla in Mexico, Botafogo, Flamengo, Gazalea Ajaccio, Bangu, Vasco da Gama, Fluminese, El Paso Sixshooters, America RJ and Guarany Futebol Clube!

He was nicknamed Kaiser because he apparently looked line Franz Beckenbauer; but did anyone liken his footballer to the German's? he started his youth career at Botafoga up to 1973 and then spent four years at Flamengo. He was "spotted" by Puebla where he began his career of "not playing".

He befriended star footballers who though he was genuine, had a dentist who diagnosed tooth issues, feigned injury (no MRI scans in those days), used a "toy phone" to pretend he was having conversations with agents and had journalist pals who were prepared to write "fake news" about him.
At Bangu where the coach was getting fed up with just watching Kaiser train and insisted that he play in a match they were losing 2-0. Kaiser when warming up, started a fight with some supporters, whom he claimed had been insulting him-he was "sent off". He worked out the labour laws in Brazil and managed to get contracts that lasted longer than they should have; so convincing was he that he became a pundit on Brazil's MOTD!

Journalist Rob Smyth has written the book.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/apr/26/the-forgotten-story-of-carlos-kaiser-footballs-greatest-conman

At 53, he now trains female body builders and has a film made about him.
https://www.fourfourtwo.com/us/features/confessions-carlos-kaiser-soccers-biggest-conman

http://entertainment.ie/cinema/news/Heres-the-trailer-for-Kaiser-a-fascinating-documentary-about-footballs-greatest-conman/406958.htm

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