The Greatest Footballer Who Never Played Revisited

Pretend - a true crime documentary podcast by Javier Leiva

Jul 14, 202632:35Society & Culture

We've covered a lot of PRETENDers on this show. But the guy in this one might take the prize. Carlos Henrique Raposo, better known as Kaiser, fooled the entire professional soccer world in Brazil for 26 years. He signed...

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