You might ask, “How is he paid to play football? ” when you see some soccer players who are not worth seeing on the pitch or who are not worth the cleats they wear.” They make you doubt exactly how clubs recruit these players.
You may have tried to put together a list of footballers who weren’t made for the game or googled for the worst soccer players to ever play the game.
You could name a handful of them and question how some of them managed to join prominent teams, but none of them are as ridiculously bad as Carlos Kaiser “The Farce Footballer”.
Article was first published on June 2 2017 | and Updated on November 27, 2022
Who is Carlos Kaiser?
Carlos Henrique Raposo (born 2 April 1963), known as Carlos Kaiser, is a Brazilian former footballer who played (and trained) as a striker (and a conman) during the 1970s across the 80s and early 90s,
Raposo started his youth career with Botafogo before switching to Flamengo, one of the most well-known clubs in Brazil.
He impressed the Puebla scouts during a training session in 1979, and after spending a few months abroad without taking part in any official games, he was released. His grand charade started when he got back to Brazil.
Carlos Kaiser made up for his lack of athletic prowess with interpersonal skills, making friends with a number of prominent players at different teams as well as journos, all of whom he exploited as a network to facilitate moves and promote his reputation without ever playing in any professional games.
He would start his charade by negotiating short-term contracts and stating right away that he needed to work on his fitness in order to be match-ready.
He often claimed to have hamstring injuries during the team training sessions to mask his mediocre abilities, and if teams wanted to look into it further, his dentist would always confirm that he had a focal infection.
The striker can be termed as a footballing fraud as he managed to get signed for teams across South America and Europe without any positive input.
His style was to feign injuries to avoid match-day selections and due to the lack of advanced technologies, he got away with most of his scams.
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Amongst his trick was being friends with journalists so that they would write fake news about him.
In one newspaper article, it was reported that he had such a great time at Puebla (one of the clubs he played for) that he was even invited to become a Mexican citizen to play for the national team.
He later returned to Brazil and started a career as a farce footballer since he “wanted to be a footballer, but did not want to play football”.
When he returned to Brazil he became friends of many footballers such as Carlos Alberto Torres, Ricardo Rocha, and Renato Gaúcho so that he could have a big network to be recommended whenever he needed a new club.
He also used toy mobile phones, unpopular and expensive at the time, to create fake conversations in foreign languages or about rejecting transfer offers to create an image of a valuable player to the clubs.
One other time he claimed that he played in Argentina at Talleres de Córdoba and Independiente being brought by a man named “Alejandro“, who was a friend of Jorge Burruchaga.
He also claimed that he was part of the squad that won both the 1984 Copa Libertadores and the 1984 Intercontinental Cup by portraying himself as Carlos Enrique, an Argentinian player that was really part of the squad.
In 1986, he moved to Europe and joined French Division 2 club Gazélec Ajaccio. At his presentation the club arranged a session with the fans, afraid of being caught, he shot all the balls to the crowd while kissing the club’s badge.
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He barely played at the club and returned to Brazil the following year, although his friendship with journalists later earned him an article where he was depicted as a top goalscorer at Gazélec Ajaccio where he had played for eight seasons.
Returning to Brazil, he joined Bangu where he again used his fake injury charade.
However, Castor de Andrade, the club’s major sponsor, and patron was tired of seeing Kaiser just training and demanded that he be selected to play.
Initially, at the bench, Castor told the coach to play Kaiser as his team was losing by 2–0 and sent the player to warm up. Again afraid of being caught, he saw a group of supporters giving the stick to the players and started to fight them so that he was sent off before even entering the field.
After the match, Kaiser lied to the patron that the supporters were calling his father a thief. Kaiser was forgiven and earned a six-month extension.
His last club was Vasco da Gama, and the other teams he had stints for were Puebla, Botafogo, Flamengo, Gazélec Ajaccio, Bangu, Fluminense, El Paso Sixshooters América (RJ) Guarany Futebol Clube.
Major source: Wikipedia
Da fuckk , can’t stop laughing ..
seriously he is a pure scam, bet he’s a clown now