Film
Kaiser: The Greatest Footballer Never to Play Football
- Director
- Louis Myles
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 97 mins
It’s a tale for our times: the true story of a fella who conned his way into a celebrity lifestyle with a little help from the compliant media and gullible public.
Carlos “Kaiser” Henrique Raposo certainly looked and acted the part of an ’80s footballing superstar, what with his stylish mullet, partying lifestyle and womanising ways. It was just when he was called upon to, you know, kick a ball that things went, as the great footballing cliche goes, pear-shaped. Remarkably, the Brazilian conman got away with it for 26 years, mainly by feigning injury every time he was called upon to take to the pitch and getting himself transferred from club to club whenever he was in danger of being found out. Brit filmmaker Louis Myles‘s fascinating documentary tells Kaiser’s extraordinary story, revealing why the press played along with the cunning chancer and how it eventually became in the Brazilian sporting establishment’s interest to maintain the fiction that he could actually play football.
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