Carlos Henrique Raposo (born 2 April 1963), commonly known as Carlos Kaiser, is a Brazilian con artist and former footballer who played as a striker.[citation needed] Although his abilities were far short of professional standard, he managed to sign for numerous teams during his decade-long career. He never actually played a regular game, the closest occurrence ending in a red card whilst warming up, and hid his limited ability with injuries, frequent team changes, and other ruses.[1]
Nicknamed "Kaiser" due to a purported resemblance to Franz Beckenbauer when he was young (although his friend Luiz Maerovitch claims that the nickname stems from a resemblance to a bottle of Kaiser beer),[2] Carlos Raposo began his youth career at Botafogo, then moved to Flamengo. In 1979, he impressed the scouts of Puebla during a training session and was signed by the Mexican club, although he was released months after without playing a single match.[3]
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He later returned to Brazil and began a career as a farce footballer since he "wanted to be a footballer, but did not want to play football", becoming a friend of many footballers such as Carlos Alberto Torres, Ricardo Rocha and Renato Gacho so that he would have a big network to be recommended whenever he needed to transfer to a new club. With a physical shape similar to professional footballers, but lacking skills, his fraud consisted of signing a short contract and stating that he was lacking match fitness so that he would spend the first weeks only with physical training where he could shine. When he had to train with other players, he would feign a hamstring injury; the technology at the time made it difficult to detect the fraud. He had a dentist who claimed he had focal infection whenever any club wanted to go further. By following these steps, he managed to stay a few months at the various clubs just training and without ever being exposed as a fraud.[1]
Another tactic was to befriend journalists so that they would write fictional stories about him. In one newspaper article, it was reported that he had such a great time at Puebla that he was even invited to become a Mexican citizen to play for the national team.[1] He also used toy mobile phones, expensive and uncommon at the time, to create fake conversations in foreign languages or reject non-existent transfer offers to create an image of himself as a valuable player.[4]
Upon returning to Brazil, Kaiser went back to Botafogo, starting his farce career. While employing his fake injury scam, he also made use of the toy mobile phone scam by pretending to speak English to buy himself more time at the club, but was later discovered by a club doctor who was fluent in English.[5] He later rejoined Flamengo and stayed a few months with the same injury scam.[5]
Amongst his scams, he claimed that he played in Argentina at Talleres de Crdoba and Independiente, being brought by a man named "Alejandro", who was a friend of Jorge Burruchaga and claiming 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 who was genuinely part of the squad.[3]
In 1986, he allegedly moved to Europe and joined French Division 2 club Gazlec Ajaccio where a friend was playing. At his presentation, the club arranged a training session with the fans and, afraid of being caught, he shot all the balls to the crowd while kissing the club's badge.[4] He barely played at the club and returned to Brazil the following year,[6] although his friendship with journalists later earned him an article where he was depicted as a top goalscorer at Gazlec Ajaccio where he had played for eight seasons.[3] However, the friend, Fabio "Fabinho" Barros who played at Ajaccio for four years, says that Kaiser never actually went to Corsica. Instead, the two of them took photographs of Kaiser wearing an Ajaccio jersey that Barros gave to him as a present at a field in Horto. Barros states that Kaiser later used these photographs, as well as a forged player identification card as "proof" of his time in France.[7][8]
In 1989, Kaiser turned up on the roster of American indoor side: the El Paso Sixshooters of the Southwest Independent Soccer League. El Paso might actually have been a club in which Kaiser could've cracked the starting lineup: they were terrible, losing all twelve of their matches (one of them by a breathtaking 27-3 score) before folding.
Kaiser also had a spell at Fluminense where, together with his injury scam, he again used a toy mobile phone to pretend to reject offers from other clubs, stating that he was happy at the club, but was caught by an assistant.[4] He later joined Vasco da Gama, where he was signed to help a teammate to overcome an alcohol problem[3] as he did not drink[9] and had a reputation of being a good person.
In November 2015, Kaiser signed an exclusive agreement with a UK production company, Nods & Volleys Entertainment Limited, which was specifically incorporated to tell his story on all media formats. Interview filming on a cinematic release was completed in December 2016.[citation needed]
Kaiser! The Greatest Footballer Never to Play Football had its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival on 21 April 2018. The film features contributions from Carlos Alberto Torres, Zico, Renato Gaucho, Bebeto, Junior and Ricardo Rocha.[10]
Carlos Henrique Raposo, known in the football world as 'The Kaiser' for his supposed resemblance to Franz Beckenbauer or 'Forrest Gump', had a 13-year career as a professional footballer without playing the game.
"Kaiser has been one of the most iconic figures in world football. He only had one problem: the ball," recalls Ricardo Rocha, former Real Madrid player, in 'The Greatest Footballer Never To Play Football'.
His greatest adventure in football was his signing with Puebla of Mexico, with whom he spent barely six months, to later get contracts thanks to his player friends (Carlos Alberto Torres, Renato Gaucho, Ricardo Rocha, Romario, Edmundo and Gaucho) as a footballer with Botafogo, Flamengo and Fluminense but without having the intention of playing, faking injuries and missing training sessions to achieve his goal.
"I cheated the doctors. There was a time in the team I played for when they really wanted me to play and I had a friend who was a dentist. 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 found out what my problem is. It's a dental problem. It was pure bullshit," he recounts.
"I'm the greatest footballer who never played football. I slept with 1,000 women and pretended to be injured my whole career," admits Kaiser, considered the greatest con man in Brazilian football after almost three decades as a professional footballer without playing a minute.
"I made sure I was seen with the best Brazilian footballers. 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," he said in a 2018 interview with The Sun.
The idea of "living a lie" is always presented as quite a dark and negative course of action; something people do in films before they throw themselves off buildings or make sad speeches or lose the ones they love; lose everything, in fact, as the lie eventually crashes down around them, forcing them aboard the late train to whichever unknowable abyss of a new life awaits.
"I wanted to be among the players," Kaiser says in a new documentary, Kaiser: The Greatest Footballer Never to Play Football, which takes the time to carefully run its fingers over his myth. The film is hilarious, unbelievable, fascinating and heartbreaking in various measures. "I just didn't want to play," Kaiser adds. "It's everybody else's problem if they wanted me to be a footballer."
I spoke to Louis Myles, the director of the film, and writer Rob Smyth, who wrote a book in parallel, to try to figure out how one man could pull off a ridiculous rolling scam at the top level of Brazilian sport for over 20 years, as well as to find out what happened when the lie did, eventually, come crashing down.
He was funny, charming and super quick; he had that classic conman's ability to think on his feet and rack any situation immediately in his favour. Even when you're in danger, that ability to get people onside is the art. He got in with the mafia, took the blame for punch-ups, organised orgies, endlessly faked injury, persuaded journalists to write about him, paid the fans to sing his name at matches. The only thing he daren't do was actually play, because then his con would be exposed.
How did you first become aware of Kaiser's story?
Louis Myles: I was making the documentary celebrating 20 years of the Football Manager gaming series. Someone from the team there took me to the pub and told me about this incredible story someone had posted on reddit, poorly translated from a news article written in Portuguese. After a few pints it went from "someone should make a film about this" to "we should make a film about this". Later, I told Tim Vickery, the BBC's Brazil-based football journalist, and his eyes just lit up. He said, in 21 years of living in Rio, it wasn't just the best football story he'd heard, it was the best story he'd heard, period. That gave me the confidence to run with it. The next three years were, quite frankly, the most bonkers of my life.
During the film, it says Kaiser played 30 games during his "very long career". Did you ever see any footage of any of those appearances?
No. I mean, that's what the record says, but personally I don't believe he ever did play.
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