A 26-year professional footballing career is impressive for any player, especially one who never even played a match.
Carlos Henrique Raposo, more commonly known as Carlos Kaiser, had professional deals in Brazil, Mexico, the US and France in one of football’s greatest-ever scams.
Kaiser had contracts with most of Brazil's top teams, but he never played. It was mainly due to his ability to fake injuries.
Becoming a legend in South America for his party boy lifestyle that came with conning so many teams, Carlos Kaiser even had a documentary made about his astonishing life, called: ‘The Greatest Footballer to Never Play Football’.
The now 60-year-old himself lifted the lid on his incredible scam, and it featured insight from Brazilian World Cup winning legends Bebeto, Carlos Alberto and Zico.
Those greats were just as big a part of the scam as anyone else, as Kaiser explained: "The players knew it, but they were all my friends.
“The journalists, whom I paid to publish reports... Nobody persecuted me.”
Going through extraordinary lengths to never play a match, the closest he came was against Cortiba, but he managed to get red carded for a fight with a fan during his substitution.
Even training was a step too much for the Rio de Janeiro native, who explained: "I cheated with the doctors.
“There was a time in the team that I played for that really wanted me to play and I had a dentist friend.
“The president of the club came up to me and said: 'You never play!' I said: ‘I have the medical report here and they finally figured out what my problem is. It's a dental problem’. It was a complete lie.
"At another club I played for, they brought in a black magic priest to perform rituals for me to heal my bruises. They were paying him well.
“I went up to him and said, 'Take your money, mate. Nothing's wrong with me. Take your money and don't bother doing your work because I intend to stay injured for the rest of my life.”
Claiming that he went to orgies with Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, he said: “I am the best football player who has never played football... I slept with 1,000 women and pretended to be injured my entire career.
“Every night I was in nightclubs until the early hours of the morning, Monday to Monday. I was never in a condition to train or play in the morning
"I made sure I was seen with the best Brazilian football players. Just being a football player made me a magnet for women.
“I was a sex addict, like Michael Douglas. I would sleep with at least three women a day."
Kaiser’s main skill in getting new contracts was signing as part of a deal with his professional friends. He’d then win over the staff at the club with his charm, and manage to get a contract long enough to bring home a superstar's wage.
Once the teams grew tired of his non-stop injuries, he’d then move on with another friend and create a new scam, something he felt the clubs deserved.
"The clubs have deceived and continued to deceive footballers a lot,” he explained. “Someone had to take revenge for all of them.”
Credit TalkSPORT
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