Unusual: the fake player who lied and almost reached the Champions League

Gregory Akcelrod was about to play the Champions League with him CSKA Sofia from Bulgaria, until they found out your CV was wrong and they had done an apocryphal website that praises its virtues.

Gregory Akcelrod he had wanted to play football since he was 10, but he was wrong because his own father forbade him to play, tells the Daily Star, but he didn’t give up and ended up playing for him. PSG amateur team in French football, and this experience formed the basis of his plan developed.

Akcelrod decided to create a fake website pretend with minor divisions of champions of the League 1, copy of log match reports showing attacker name Nicolas anelka to paste yours.

However, he did not give up and eventually played for the amateur team of the PSG in French fifth-tier football, and that experience formed the basis of his elaborate plan.

He decided to set up a fake website claiming he was with the reserves of the Ligue 1 champions, copying newspaper match reports showing striker Nicolas Anelka’s name to paste his own.

But Akcelrod’s secret was revealed and he told the Daily Mail: “I did the two day test and on Sunday the coach told my agent he wanted to sign me. They took pictures. of me wearing the official CKSA jersey, I signed the contract., posted on the CSKA website he signed.

“But it was the PSG fans who destroyed me. Overnight a CSKA Sofia fan contacted a PSG online forum and asked: ‘We are about to sign Greg Akcelrod, what do you think from him?? “.

“The PSG fans didn’t know me. They said it was wrong, they checked my website. But part of it was true, the video in Swindon, for example.”

Ackelrod’s father had banned him from playing after seeing him at 10, moving away from the family when he chose football over education at 19.

And it was a big decision, with his grandmother inheriting a fortune from Oscar-winning actor Maurice Chevalier.

Working at a fast food establishment and playing for the PSG amateur team, he decided to take matters into his own hands.

He even took photos inside the Parc des Princes, which he entered without permission, to look like a promising star.

Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea didn’t take the bait, but Swindon did in 2003, and it only took him a day to realize the mistake.

Ackelrod, who described himself as “physically unfit” and “lost” said: “In the training match the goalkeeper shot a long time, I tried with a header but it hit me in the face. Everyone laughed. “

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