Fake footballer almost signed contract with Champions League team despite bogus CV
dailystar.co.ukChampions League football - and would have realised it if his CV had not been discovered as fake.Grégoire Akcelrod had wanted to play football since he was 10 years old but was so bad that his own dad banned him from playing.He did not give up, though, eventually playing for PSG’s amateur side in fifth-tier French football - and this experience formed the base of his elaborate plan.The amateur footballer decided to create a fake website claiming he was with the Ligue 1 champions’ reserves, copying newspaper match reports that featured forward Nicolas Anelka’s name to paste his own in.Sending it to English clubs, he managed to get trials at Swindon, Norwich and Bournemouth.This saw CSKA Sofia come knocking in 2009, offering him a three-year.
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